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Beer In Ads #2814: Pinch-Hitting For Norway

November 4, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Sunday’s ad is for Budweiser, from 1942. This ad features the curious story of because of World War 2 imported fish oil from Norway — a good source of Vitamin D — was impossible to obtain, but thankfully Budweiser came to the rescue and offered Vitamin D from another source, their yeast.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Anheuser-Busch, Budweiser, History, Norway



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