15th August 2010 / Comments (5)

Woman's Weekly: 26th April 1969
Never mind about putting your feet up with some chocs, or flying off on holiday, REAL indulgence is, erm, a new cooker. The High Speed Gas people ARE being good to us!
Oh dear. Such a treat. only 10,000 more meals to go!
Are they suggesting someone would cook three meals a day, every day? Didn't these people have sandwiches?
Three cooked meals a day? Really?
Chances are these were middle-class men writing the copy, of course. They would have lived in a world of cooked meals, I'll wager.
I can understand what the Gas Board is trying to suggest by "High Speed Gas" as a slogan (gas hobs and ovens do get hot quicker than electric ones), but I'd imagine that this slogan would be challenged today by the electricity companies - IIRC, electricity travels at the speed of light or thereabouts, whilst gas is a tad more sluggish.
By Jamie
August 15, 2010 @ 1:21 pm / #
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