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YOU’VE VERY LITTLE chance of getting a Guinness in a pub today… although if you’re in the UK it’s a different story.
Not that Guinness has always just pitched its product at an Irish ex-pat audience. Check out these TV ads for Guinness from the 1970s – all squarely aimed at luring a British audience into developing a yen for the creamy brew.
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(Look out for Corrie’s Reg Holdsworth – actor Ken Morley – at 5:00):
Thursday 26 December, 2024
Thursday 26 December, 2024
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VIDEO: A 1970s guide to selling Guinness to the British
YOU’VE VERY LITTLE chance of getting a Guinness in a pub today… although if you’re in the UK it’s a different story.
Not that Guinness has always just pitched its product at an Irish ex-pat audience. Check out these TV ads for Guinness from the 1970s – all squarely aimed at luring a British audience into developing a yen for the creamy brew.
(Look out for Corrie’s Reg Holdsworth – actor Ken Morley – at 5:00):
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