General Foods: Food Price Facts, 1960s
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- | Well, looks like you bought a bundle of groceries there, | 0:01 |
Aunt Bea. | 0:03 | |
- | Well, it seems to cost a bundle too. | 0:04 |
- | Yeah, it does but you know what, | 0:06 |
food's a bargain today. | 0:08 | |
The consumer spends the smallest percentage | 0:10 | |
of his after tax dollar for food than any time | 0:12 | |
in the history of the United States, | 0:15 | |
only 19 cents out of every dollar. | 0:16 | |
- | Is that true? | 0:19 |
- | And what's more, people in this country | 0:20 |
spend less of their total income on food | 0:22 | |
than do people anywhere in the world. | 0:24 | |
- | Well, that's a good thing to know. | 0:26 |
- | So, when you hear talk about the cost of food | 0:28 |
just give out the facts. | 0:30 | |
Food is a bargain. | 0:31 | |
- | And I'll say you said so. | 0:33 |
- | Me and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. | 0:35 |
Narrator | This message was brought to you | 0:37 |
by General foods. | 0:38 |
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