Comments on: What did Sandy Duncan say in her Wheat Thins commercial?

Question: What did Sandy Duncan say in her Wheat Thins commercial?

rainbaby — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:27:04 -0800

What did Sandy Duncan Say in her Wheat Thins commercials? Seems like she had a tag line, but it certainly wasn't "mmmm, good cracker" or "just a pinch between your cheek and gum." I'd love to have a whole transcript of one of those commercials, but what was it she said? "The little cracker with the big taste?"

By: rainbaby

rainbaby — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:28:16 -0800

OOOPS! Question is What did Sandy Duncan Say in her Wheat Thins commercials. I don't ask much, forgive me.

By: jennyjenny

jennyjenny — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:45:25 -0800

I don't have an answer for you, but I do have to say that the question as written is beautifully surreal, and made me happy.

By: rainbaby

rainbaby — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:54:57 -0800

Oh, thank you jennyjenny, I feel a little better. And "the little cracker with the big taste" is Goldfish, it turns out. Andy Griffith for Ritz is "mmm, good cracker."

By: ericb

ericb — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:56:05 -0800

"Perhaps you've seen the T.V. commercial. Skinny Sandy, eating Wheat Thins out of the box, says that you too can get 'great taste without the guilt', and that these crackers are 'baked not fried.'" (from here).

By: Specklet

Specklet — Thu, 19 May 2005 13:09:57 -0800

(I, too, found the question delightfully surreal.)

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Thu, 19 May 2005 13:20:20 -0800

"just a pinch between your cheek and gum."

That was Tug McGraw for Skoal, I think. It would have been better if Tug had pushed the Wheat Thins and Sandy Duncan was packing chaw behind her lip and spitting.

By: patrickje

patrickje — Thu, 19 May 2005 14:07:37 -0800

one right after the other?

I always found her so hot!

By: rainbaby

rainbaby — Thu, 19 May 2005 15:37:45 -0800

Thank you everybody. I napped on it and I think it was ". . .right out of the box. . .wuuuuuun after the other." It may be my earliest TV memory, or the liminal one. They are so delicious, yet I knew then she had a glass eye, so eating them was kinda creepy and forbidden, too.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 19 May 2005 16:30:01 -0800

"one right after the other" says a Jump the Shark poster.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 19 May 2005 17:37:15 -0800

[added first line to post]

By: Slack-a-gogo

Slack-a-gogo — Thu, 19 May 2005 18:36:55 -0800

"Eat 'em right out of the box" followed by a crunch and that Sandy Duncan smile. That's the way I remember it.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 19 May 2005 19:37:47 -0800

I remember her saying "i eat em right out of the box" but i'm not sure that was the slogan.

By: Carbolic

Carbolic — Thu, 19 May 2005 22:06:23 -0800

"just a pinch between your cheek and gum."

Walt Garrison of the Dallas Cowboys said this way before Tug McGraw. Back in the 70s.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 19 May 2005 22:58:52 -0800

Duncan did those ads for a number of years; she probably survived a couple of slogan changes. In other words, there was probably more than one.

But one right after the other sounds most familiar.

By: chrismear

chrismear — Fri, 20 May 2005 01:22:31 -0800

What on earth does "just a pinch between your cheek and gum" mean?

By: britain

britain — Fri, 20 May 2005 04:15:42 -0800

It's how you imbibe chewing tobacky to suck its sweet juices down your gullet without actually swallowing it. Not that I'd know from experience or anything.

By: chrismear

chrismear — Sat, 21 May 2005 02:10:05 -0800

Ahhhh. I was confused because they were talking about crackers...