"AYDS"

An Riabhach · 09-08-2015 09:05PM #1

I distinctly remember my mother telling me that for a time,many many moons ago,there were these dieting products available on the market like pills,drinks and supplements-which were called this hugely unfortunate name.At first I laughed...(obviously no laughing matter but I couldn't help but find it funny) and I thought that she might have got it a bit mixed up.

But as it turned out,she was right....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTitP5_yDUU

Does anyone else remember this product?

PippaChic · 12-08-2015 05:59PM

I remember it, it was around the late 70s. I remember a different commercial though, I recall a woman in a brown dress walking into a party being offered chocolates. She refuses and takes out her Ayds!

C.K Dexter Haven · 12-08-2015 06:06PM

My friends mum at the time was always doing some kind of diet and she had Ayds sweets- I still remember them now- tasted a bit like soft toffees - not totally unpalatable at all by any means:D

Off course, the name clashed very soon after with a different type of "AIDS"

Small article here on them- American apparently- not sure how they got to Ireland, maybe mail order catoglue or reps of some kind?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds

vandriver · 12-08-2015 06:09PM

I remember ayds biscuits.

An Riabhach · 12-08-2015 06:56PM

PippaChic wrote: »

I remember it, it was around the late 70s. I remember a different commercial though, I recall a woman in a brown dress walking into a party being offered chocolates. She refuses and takes out her Ayds!

Jaysus I can just picture that....

"Would you like some chocolate,dear?"
"No thanks,I've got AYDS".

Tragic isn't the word.

An Riabhach · 24-09-2015 12:32AM

C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »

My friends mum at the time was always doing some kind of diet and she had Ayds sweets- I still remember them now- tasted a bit like soft toffees - not totally unpalatable at all by any means:D

Off course, the name clashed very soon after with a different type of "AIDS"

Small article here on them- American apparently- not sure how they got to Ireland, maybe mail order catoglue or reps of some kind?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds

These two ads would suggest that they were also pretty big in Britain,so they would have gotten to Ireland easily enough: