A long, long time ago, before we had the internet and Google and YouTube, a group of us at my office were chatting one afternoon and the old "Hanker for a Hunka Cheese" PSA came up.
I remembered, vividly, most of the little song (I hanker for a hunka, a slab or slice or chunka, I hanker for a hunka cheese!) and could picture the little yellow guy with his "wagon wheel." (I still think of that, actually, if I eat cheese on a Ritz cracker.)
Somebody thought it was Schoolhouse Rock, but we corrected her. One guy called a friend who knows way too much about tv, and he actually knew that the spot was "Time for Timer."
A few of us had vauge memories of another Timer where he made little popsicles in ice cube trays.
It would have been great, that day at work, if we'd been able to just search for "Hanker for a hunka cheese" and then sit back to watch the video...and the rest of the Time for Timers, while we were at it, including that one about eating leftovers for breakfast, which I'd totally forgotten, but it's a concept I still employ.
Anyway, once I'd watched Timer about forty times today, I remembered another '70's PSA that's been semi-stuck in my head for thirty years. It was a jingle about the metric system, and the verse that I know (and that I recall way too often):
A gram?
A gram!
About the weight of a single raisin
About the same as a paperclip
Now isn't that amazin'?
It was called something along the likes of "Take 10 America." In my searches, all I was able to find was a Gene Weingarten chatter (not me) who was also looking for the rest of the lyrics.
Anybody remember that one?
Posted by Nic at December 4, 2006 08:32 PM | TrackBackHmmmm... I remember the hunka cheese guy, but the gram/raisin thing is drawing a complete blank.
Posted by: Ted at December 6, 2006 06:32 AMI've never met anyone who remembers the metric song. If I hadn't seen it in the Weingarten chat, I'd think I had dreamed it.
Posted by: nic at December 6, 2006 06:40 PM"I hanker for a hunka cheese!" I like cheeeese!
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