Do you recall this Nimble Bread TV ad from 1969? I was 8 at the time and scoffed loads of bread, usually white and maybe called Wonder Loaf, I'm not sure. Anyways, my Mum or my Sisters are Nimble.
You know the ad now, she flies like a bird because the diet loaf is so thin its lighter than air. I seem to remember the slices actually tearing to shreds when I tried to butter them back then! I don't think they were made for butter!
Hot Air Balloons seem to have been a big deal back then, a novelty. I've never flown in one and hardly ever see them now. You?
I remember the song 'I can't let Maggie go', which in my mind has morphed with 'Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried any more' from The Faces' Maggie May, so I had to look it up.
I can't Let Maggie go was by The Honeybus and has a wiki page no less!
I asked Paul in NZ if he remembered Nimble.
From Paul: It does not not ring any bells, so if it was ever sold in NZ it was not advertised on TV.
On You Tube there is a whole series of Nimble ads, from across several decades, so it is clearly a well known British brand.
Watched a few, and got a real shock. One of the ads features Juilet Harmer, who played Georgina Jones in the series Adam Adamant Lives (1966-67) - which I have on DVD.
She is even driving a Mini in the ad, a car which also featured in Adam Adamant - remember that? - , although the ad is dated 1965. Great fun.
Paul A.
Maggie May was by Rod Stewart, not the Faces, although he was in that group for a time.
ReplyDeleteHot air balloons certainly did appear in several songs. There was Up, Up, and Away, in my Beautiful Balloon, by the 5th Dimension. There is also a balloon in the video for Sugar Town by Nancy Sinatra, although the song has nothing to do with balloons. Balloons also featured in several films - including Around the World in 80 Days (1956), and Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962), both based on Jules Verne. Was there one in The Lost World ? Throw in airships, such as those in Master of the World (1961, another Verne film), Zeppelin (1971), Island at the Top of the World (1974), and Black Sunday (1977), and you have a multitude of lighter than air craft.
I loved that 5th Dimension song Paul!
DeleteYes, remember all that 1960s bread. Guaranteed free of nutrition!
ReplyDeleteThere is a nice parody of the nimble advert in the Wallace and Gromit epsiode "A Matter of Loaf and Death".
Ha ha, I'll have to watch that. Love Aardman's output! A fellow Lancastrian!
DeleteYes, it was on just about every ad break for ever(at least it seemed that way). Hovis owns the brand name now. I think my mum ate it for a while. Wonder Loaf is something I have encountered in the USA but not in the UK. Hot air balloons regularly fly overhead during summer in Toadville (or at least they did pre-covid) and in Bristol theres an annual hot air balloon weekend with hundreds of them flying. There is no way you could get me to go for a flight in one; Toads don't like heights.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I meant Mother's Pride Timmy, not Wonder Loaf, you're right, that's American. I would love to go to a hot air balloon festival but just look up. Not get in any baskets either!
DeleteI both remember Nimble bread and ate it occasionally, as a kid. It was like eating 'airated' normal bread.
ReplyDeleteApparently it still exists, though more common modern versions are called 'Danish style' bread, for some reason.
Yes, I've some Danish bread. Very flimsy, can't be buttered. When I lived in Europe I also ate Toast Bread, small square slices of odd bread that could seemingly only be toasted. Not sure what would have happenned if you just ate them straight!
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