Pits! That's it! Shows you my totally wonky memory, with it's on-and-off retrieval. Stan Freberg did the voiceover on the TV commercials, too. Actually, I think that he designed that campaign for them. One ad had a rather stuffy-looking gentleman being talked into trying a prune. While he approved the absence of a pit, he did note, "They're still rather badly wrinkled." Then, that grand voice would announce, "Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles!"

"Purina Cat Chow~Chow Chow Chow!" Remember the lady chachaing with her cat?

Great! It's not just Mom and me who remember that Rival ad! It's weird how some campaigns imbed themselves so thoroughly in our minds that they pop out at odd times.

Now, if I could find someone who remembers the ducklings eating the dog food, I'd reach a further state of bliss. *giggle*

I remember Oscar Meyer's ad with the contrary little boy:
"Oh, I'm glad I'm not an Oscar Meyer Weiner. That is what I'd never want to be. For if I was an Oscar Meyer Weiner..." I don't remember the exact wording, only that he runs into a disapproving group of children then joins them in singing the usual jingle. It was an animated commercial I think.

"Hot Dogs, Armour Hot Dogs
What kind of kids love Armour Hot Dogs?
Big kids, little kids, kids who climb on rocks.
Fat kids, skinny kids, even kids with chicken pox love hot dogs,
Armour Hot Dogs. The dogs kids love to bite!"

Wow! What nook or cranny of my brain did that emerge from?

Actress/model Barbara Carrera had her screen (OK~TV screen) debut as the personification of Chiquita Banana. I admit that I found these lyrics, which seem to differ in places from what I remember:
"I'm Chiquita Banana and I've come to say
Bananas have to ripen in a certain way.
When they are fleck'd with brown and have a golden hue,
Bananas taste the best and are the best for you.
You can put them in a salad, You can put them in a pie aye
Anyway you want to eat them, It's impossible to beat them.
But bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator.
So you should never put bananas in the refrigerator. No no no no!"

I think most of the informative lyrics were lost on young ones as we went from a cartoon banana to Ms. Carrera. The Chiquita site I checked did admit that there have been lots of rewrites since the Forties.