Welcome to the Consumer Ninja Says! Started in July of 2010.
On this page, you will find the truth behind many myths and fun facts related to different consumer goods!
7-Up might have saved millions of lives during the depression. Back then, 7-Up’s slogan was “Takes the ‘OUCH’ out of grouch” – which would make it “gr”– so, I don’t really get that in the literal sense, but it would of made a drinker of the lemon-lime goodness less cranky and it wasn’t bubbly carbonation, 7-Up contained lithium, a powerful drug that aids in reducing depression.
Irony: “Business cards” were once called “calling cards” and were used in the late 19th century as a way of showing status, because offering a “calling card” to another, meant that, you didn’t have to work for a living.
McDonald’s Clown drama. Who created Ronald McDonald? It depends on whom you ask. The official statement from McDonald’s is: It was McDonald’s. The proof on McDonald’s side is shown with the crude drawing of Ronald on the 1967 trademark application. Yet, Willard Scott had been portraying “Bozo” the clown on TV from 1959-1962 and was contracted by McDonald’s to play a clown at the earlier McDonald’s restaurants in 1963 and makes claims that after he stopped making appearances, McDonald’s “re-created” Bozo on their own. On a related note, yet another man, George Voorhis, claims to have been the first one to portray Ronald and it is said, to back up his claims, that there exists a 1963 newspaper clipping from the Valley News that identifies George Voorhis as “Ronald McDonald” at a “local McDonald’s restaurant”. If that isn’t enough, George and another man claim to have actually created the details of Ronald, including the costume and face design prior to the trademark application.
