Drink Cart Friday Shot: Let them Drink Cake
A Friday newsletter that goes down easier with multiple chocolate cake shots.
Dear agency chocolate cake shot enthusiasts and those yearning for beepers to make a comeback.
Welcome to a leaner, meaner Friday Shot. You may have seen me write at length for Wednesday’s newsletter (that might be the new thing). But here on Fridays, let’s keep it short. But first your next crowd pleasing agency shot that will make your account director feel like a modern Marie Antoinette:
The Account Director Chocolate Cake
1/2 oz vanilla vodka
1/2 oz Frangelico
Pour vanilla vodka and Frangelico into a shaker with ice, shake and pour
Coat a lemon wedge generously with sugar
Take the shot, then immediately bite into the sugared lemon
1. Ad History: The Beeper King of Indianapolis (1990s)
We peaked when pagers ruled the earth.
2. Mug Root Beer is my new favourite social account
When a brand is out here dropping lines like “s’lom me out dawg” and making S’lommy cups for root beer, it’s hard not to love.
3. What a time to be alive
I love this important message from Bagel Bites. If you haven’t suffered a third degree mouth burn from one, you wouldn’t get this.
4. Obligated to Include Christmas Liquor Ad Content.
Have a Dickens of a Christmas indeed. Peak 1972 energy.
5. Ad history: Dinty Moore Beef Stew 1985 - 1988
Sit back and enjoy this Incredible beef stew Raiders of the Lost Ark parody. They did lots of these.
6. The Hefty Cinch Sak ads from 1987 are embedded in my brain.
Whoever came up with “The Wimples” and this jingle have my never ending respect.
Thanks for reading. And drinking. See you next week, but first watch Marion do some shots in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Jackson.
The Drink Cart Friday Shot is your late Friday pick-me-up for pop culture brains and ad junkies. A fast pour of ad insights and hot takes, served like a quick round at your favourite dive bar after a week of client feedback.