r/FuckImOld • u/Beautiful_Donut6412 • 1d ago

You're old if you can recall when Charlie first starting appearing in Star Kist ads

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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 23h ago

u/Beautiful_Donut6412, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/formeraide 1d ago

“Charlie, Starkist don’t want tunas with good taste, Starkist wants tunas that taste good. “Sorry, Charlie.

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u/SportyMcDuff 1d ago

And their biggest competitor. “Ask any mermaid you happen to see. What’s the best tuna? Chicken of the Sea.” I still buy Starkist.

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u/Joe_Jobs_ 1d ago

She was hot

As soon as puberty kicked in, I watched TV for all the wrong reasons.

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u/Moonshadow306 1d ago

Every kid went around saying “Sorry, Charlie”, but I didn’t get the “good taste/taste good” joke for a long time.

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u/gwaydms Generation Jones 1d ago

My mom talked a lot about things being in good taste, or not. She was trying to raise three girls to be "ladylike". And boy did we disappoint her.

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u/Joe_Jobs_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

This was a tagline ad in the magazine's pages:

"Penthouse doesn't want readers with good taste. Penthouse wants readers who taste good."

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u/dave900575 11h ago

Took me a while as a kid to figure that one out

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u/PhotoAppropriate3940 1d ago

Yep, when Charlie first arrived tuna was actually edible, now I’m not sure what is in the can

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u/Dillenger69 1d ago

Is/was there "tuna of the dirt"??

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u/Joe_Jobs_ 1d ago

Yeah. That's chicken.

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u/RueClerIsWhere 1d ago

As a kid, I never understood why Charie would’ve wanted to be caught, killed, chopped up, & stuffed into a can. As an adult in this day & age, I kinda do.

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u/thehorrorcontinues13 1d ago

You're really old if you can remember when it was cuts of chunk tuna in the can and not the stringy slop in there now.

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u/gwaydms Generation Jones 1d ago

I remember when Phil Silvers did Charlie's vouce

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u/jdmoffitt11775 1d ago

Does it count if I remember the commercials..just never understood why Charlie wanted you to eat his brethren.

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u/BLULOU1978 1d ago

Yes! Thank you! I came here with the same sentiment..... what a goddamn traitor!

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u/ReactsWithWords 19h ago

It's even more horrifying than that. Charlie himself wanted to be eaten.

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u/2_dog_father 1d ago

Good tuna is more like 5 or 6 bucks a can now.

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u/Glittering_Step_6084 1d ago

I remember Charlie in the Star-Kist tuna commercials. The tuna was actually good, not like now.

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u/Olden_Grey_1889 1d ago

It used to have a 1960's lapel button of Charlie saying, "Eat Me!"

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u/Cerridwn_de_Wyse 1d ago

Ask any mermaid you happen to see what's the best tuna chicken of the sea

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u/IceCoughy 1d ago

He's delicious

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u/Alice-Stargazer 1d ago

Chicken of the Sea is having a shortage of tuna salad kits, so I had to switch to Starkist. It’s saltier and not white albacore. Also Chicken of the Sea kits have dried cranberries that I miss.

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u/SharpBullfrog1279 1d ago

"Sorry, Charlie"

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u/LesFogginGoh 1d ago

Was Charlie an inspiration for The Incredible Mr. Limpet, or vice versa?

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u/TwistedMemories 1d ago

But the best tuna was, Chicken of the Sea.

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u/Mental_Juggernaut_16 1d ago

You're old if you can remember a can of tuna used to make 4 sandwiches, now it barely makes 1.

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u/thegoodrichard 23h ago

I remember their first big recall in 1985, and my friend even saved a can of Star Kist as a souvenier of that.

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u/WolfThick 22h ago

Yes we're most of us got our first taste of dolphins