Description
Black and white 9 3/4″ x 13 3/4″ ad that offers you “Festive Christmas Fixin’s” from Heinz. We will start off with the picture featuring Santa Claus standing there as the snow falls holding a basket filled with Heinz products. The ad says that this is “The Season’s Eatings. Santa Claus knows a thing or two. See how he’s filled his basket with festive Christmas fixin’s – the real home-tasting kind. Somebody is going to have a dandy dinner. There’s rich tomato juice, delectable soup, colorful fruit jelly, Christmas-y pudding and mincemeat just as good as Grandmothers. They’re made, of course, by the celebrated House of Heinz“. Next, we have a young lady holding soup dishes. The ad text calls this “Lily Gilding – that’s what you might call presenting attractive soup dishes to a hostess who serves Heinz Home-style Soups. For these delicious soups need no exotic setting to be appreciated. The color, the aroma, the taste – ah! the taste – make all 23 kinds sensational”. Then, we have a couple sitting down to a good Christmas dinner. It is called the “Blaze of Glory. When father touches a match to the plum pudding and the blue flame bursts forth, it’s nearly the climax of the Christmas dinner. Nearly. The climax is the delicate flavor of the pudding itself – the real old-time English savor Heinz cooks have so admirably captured! Your whole family will agree to that”. Next to last, we have mother sitting down with her son to a dinner. “Junior Minces no words! He wants another cut of mince pie – and so does everyone else. Such crust! Light, flaky, tender – your best. Yes, and such mincemeat! It’s Heinz“. In the last picture they show quite a few Heinz items stacked up. “Let Heinz fix the trimmings for your holiday feast. Save your own efforts for the plump fowl, or the tender suckling pig! Preface your feast with a chilly glass of Heinz Tomato Juice. Then a steaming tureen of Heinz Cream of Mushroom Soup – made the home way with the finest little white mushrooms, sauteed in table butter, and generously blessed with thicker-than-whipping cream! Garnish your table with Heniz Pure Jellys – Grape, Crab Apple or Currant – and with jade-green slices of Heinz Fresh Cucumber Pickle. Finally, for dessert, serve pie made with Heinz Mincemeat, or a delicious Heniz Plum or Fig Pudding. You’ll have 57 Varieties of Merry Christmas”.
Source: December 18, 1939 Life magazine.
