Today's surprise in our Halloween advent calendar is this little gem of an ad, from way back in 1955.
I chose it because I'm a sucker for food related puns. I had no idea that anthropomorphic corn stalks fed off the blood of Milky Way Bars. And what about that slightly menacing clown child looming behind ol' Corny?
Perhaps this was the prototype for It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, but in this version instead of waiting all night in a pumpkin patch, kids have to make a caramel filled sacrifice to the Great Corn Stalk (who incidentally only has one tooth left, the rest casualties of too many Halloween nights eating himself into a diabetic coma).
I already like my version better.
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