Violent cornflakes ad

This 1908 Kellogg's Corn Flakes ad is about as good as vintage ads get: you've got your American vernacular, your grotesque charcoal drawing of a vicious attack on a poor grocer by a furious cook, your beautiful hand-lettered type... What's not to love?

Surprisingly, not Halloween related. [vintage-ads.livejournal.com]

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flowergardenslayer

I wonder if they’re still toasted? Obviously they’re doing something to make the flakes….
ill lich

I’ve never heard of Substitute Brand corn flakes, silly name for a product, no wonder they’re not in business anymore.
phisrow

Ironically, of course, said flakes were invented by a 7th day adventist and Graham devotee who was looking for a food so bland and dubiously energizing that it would suppress the volatile passions in its victims…

In this case, while the cook may or may not have had her slatternly, lower-class libido suppressed, the treatment doesn’t seem to be working very well…
Drew Smith

Now we know who the first cereal killer was.
Lobster

These corn flakes shall be toasted by my infinite rage!
Robert Cruickshank

Shouldn’t she have a rolling pin or a frying pan?
- Lobster
  
  She had one. She broke it on the guy who got her Pepsi instead of Coca Cola.
Navin_Johnson

So wonderful!
Romeo Vitelli

I don’t know why they stopped using this ad. Is using a ferocious tiger to sell Frosted Flakes that much of an improvement?
Teller

Everything looks like an Occupy poster to me these days.
Guest

They don’t call it ‘Battle’ Creek, Michigan for nothin’.
Mister44

I know corn flakes were made to fight masterbation, but I all can think about now is waking it to this picture. “Oh yeah, baby. Box my ears! Tell me what a naughty store clerk I’ve been!”
http://twitter.com/MrAaronSwainEsq Aaron Swain

I wonder why they stopped using violence to sell breakfast cereal?
PhosPhorious

Huh. . . it’s funny because he’s hurt. . .
Palomino

Check out the Safe Auto ads, not funny watching a guy get kicked in the nuts over and over…..

http://www.safeauto.com/about/commercials/

Happened to me in 8th grade, fractured my tailbone and I was in the hospital for two days.
BoogerFree

Soggy cardboard.