Magic Cooking Bags: Kathleen Watkins
An advertisement for Magic Cooking Bags in which Kathleen Watkins talks through the steps of roasting a chicken in a magic bag, with little clean-up required.
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Royco: Oxtail Soup
Advertisement for Royco soup featuring Maureen Larkin (wife of a former footballer) and her four football-playing sons who grew into ‘four big eaters’.
Royco: Cup-A-Soup
Advertisement for Royco Cup-A-Soup in which Irish television chef Monica Sheridan asks viewers if they’ve seen Royco Cup-A-Soup yet. She asserts that it ‘must have been thought up by a woman’ before opening the packet and explaining how it is made.
Odlums: Self Raising
Advertisement for Odlum’s self raising flour in which various successful baking attempts are attributed to the ‘flour power’ of Odlum’s flour.
Siúcra: Brown Sugar Coffee
A short advertisement illustrating how brown sugar can be enjoyed in a cup of coffee.
Club Milk: Bishop
An advertisement that starts with a series of people engaged in a variety of activities, while a jingle encourages taking a break with Club Milk as it’s ‘best after all’.
Galtee: Midnight Feast
An advertisement for Galtee Continental cheese, in which two young men quietly enter a house late at night and make themselves a toastie while trying not to wake the people sleeping upstairs.
Jacob's: Club Shortcake
An animated advertisement in which a professor introduces Jacob’s newest biscuit: Club Shortcake. This is a follow-up to the advertisement Jacob’s previously released for the Club Goldgrain and features the same characters.
Cadbury's: Milk Tray
Advertisement for Cadbury’s Milk Tray which sees a family rushing to board a train in time. As they climb on board, they are gifted a box of Milk Tray which they enjoy as their father struggles to carry all their luggage.
Royco: Lentil Soup
Advertisement for Knorr golden lentil soup in which Knorr is compared to homemade soup and found to be ‘just like your soup.’
Odlum's: Cream Flour
Advertisement for Odlum’s cream flour, in which the Odlum’s owl tells a young girl that he has taken one of her mother’s buns as he was testing that the baking was perfect.
Knorr: Bread Sauce
This advertisement advises the public not to forget the bread sauce for Christmas dinner by depicting a disappointed man having Christmas dinner without it.
Jacob's: Busker
In this animated advertisement, a musician entertains a group of children and encourages mothers to ‘bring ‘em back a busker’ chocolate bar.
Valley Ice Cream: Big Red
An advertisement for Valley Ice Cream, encouraging people to get their next ice cream pop from ‘the big red fridge’. Featuring all the favourites, including Choc Ice. Valley Ice Cream was based in Thurles, Co Tipperary, and closed in 1997.
Bovril Stock Cubes: Red Meat
Short advertisement for Bovril Cubes featuring Terry Wogan.
Spry: Crisp n’ Dry
Spry Crisp n’ Dry oil is now available in solid form. It’s oil you can’t spill and is shown being used to fry an egg.
Odlums: Patricia Sullivan
Short advertisement for Odlum’s bread mixes, featuring Patricia Sullivan of Odlum’s explaining how to make bread using the mixes.
Captain Crisps
A short animated advertisement for Captain Crisps in which a superhero by the same name fights aliens using the special powers of the crisps.
Odlums: Flour Power
Short advertisement for Odlum’s self raising flour with ‘flour power’ – a new ingredient designed to improve your baking.
Donnelly’s Sausages: Sherlock
A short animated advertisement for Donnelly’s sausages, featuring Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson. As they investigate Donnelly’s sausages, Watson finds himself tied up by a group of playful children.
McVitie's: Teddy Bear
An advertisement for McVitie’s, in which a giant teddy bear tries to persuade a man to give him biscuits.
Bovril Stock Cubes: Terry Wogan
Advertisement introducing new Bovril stock cubes to ‘bring out the best in your cooking’. Terry Wogan demonstrates and encourages viewers to try them.
Calvita: Boutique
An advertisement for Calvita cheese opens with 3 young women trying on clothes in a boutique store. As the music begins, a voiceover asks: ‘What are all the slim girls eating? What are all the trim girls eating? What do the girls with good teeth eat? And where do they get their energy?’
Knorr: Good Housewife
Advertisement for the Knorr Cube competition where competitors are requested to answer: What makes a good housewife? A series of still images demonstrate the suggested qualities and also the various prizes that can be won.