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@brooke29--now, what I want to know is if your husband can perform the choreography!

How sad is it that the now-veggie me used to jump rope on the playground: "Two all beef patty special sauce lettuce cheese on a sesame seed bun," and I didn't even eat Big Macs!

Your "Manwich" jingle made me think of a jingle I've only seen in documentaries, from the 1970s: "I can bring home the bacon, fry it in a pan, and nevernevernever let you forget that you're a man!"

I don't know the end of the "Manwich" jingle either...but remember lots of little ones, like 'O-O-R-E-O," "Snap, Crackle, Pop," "Par-kaaaaay," "They're GRRREAT!"--ironically, most for products that even as a kid I wasn't that 'into.' Don't get me wrong, I loved lots of processed foods and jingles, but the two didn't always match.

Okay, here is one for a product I did like as a kid:

"Pop-Pop-Pop-Pop. Pop-Pop-Pop-Pop
People pop up with Kellogg's Pop Tarts.
A Pop every where! A Pop every where..."

And Leggo my Eggo...

We have banned the Subway 5 dollar foot long jingle due to having two boys 10 and 14, who snicker away and well...

@heart--ah, you brought back that perfume ad from when I was a little kid and thought that painted toe nails were glamorous. Yup, Enjoli would let you bring home the bacon and still let your man feel like a man. Guess this was before Mr. Mom came out.

You are all so mean! now I'm going to be hearing those dang things all day! I get a song stuck in my head and it stays there for days, SO says its because of the thickness of my skull not letting it out. I have a stress release that everytime I get frustrated, angry, whatever I start singing the theme song to the old Bannana Splits Show, I never even watched the dang thing but I know all the words to the opening. Ok I have to go hurt SO for earlier remark about my thick headed stubborness ;-)

fresh goes better!
mentos freshness!
fresh goes better with mentos
Fresh and full of liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife!

I'm not so sure how much mentos qualify as "food," but it's been in my head since I watched Clueless this weekend.

My mom always used to sing "Chock Full o' Nuts is that heavenly coffee....heeaaaavenly coffee....." every time she made her coffee in the morning. Now I find myself humming it when I'm setting up my coffee maker.

"Pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at supper time. When pizza's on a bagel, you can eat pizza anytime."

Clearly, this was before the Atkin's craze.

The Five Dollar Foot Long jingle drives me crazy. It barely qualifies as a song. It's kind of a creepy chant, but so effing catchy.

This isn't a jingle, but in the mid 80s or so, there was this commercial for Elio's pizza where this little kid is heating himself a piece and he says "And the cheese goes blup blup blup." For some reason, that's stuck with me since.

Does a pirate in a rest au rant count? That free credit report dot com commercial plays in my head constantly. The guy who sings it is cute, too.

Subway's $5 foot long is another.
Oscar Mayer weiner.
Ho Ho Ho, Green Giant.
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions in a sesame seed bun.
Chock Full o' Nuts
Coke: I'd like to teach the world to sing.....

The best ever: I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in the pan....

I always liked "Anticipation" for Heinz ketchup.

@Heart--a dab of Enjoli or bacon behind the ears? If I ate bacon, it sure would get my husband's attention not to mention the dog and cats. I never liked Enjoli, but it was a funny jingle to spoof.

My sister used love to sing the "Meow Mix" jingle. Drove us all nuts. And speaking of nuts, does anyone remember the Peter Pan jingle? "Picky people love Peter Pan peanutbutter. It's the peanutbutter picky people pick."

I work with someone whose last name is Bologna. Every time I type it, I have to sing the Oscar Mayer Bologna jingle.

if it say's libby's libby's libby's
on the label label label
you will like it like it like it
on your table table table
if it say's libby's libby's libby's
on the label label label.
never mind saying it three times fast, typing once is enough.

Okay, I'm not sure if this was an actual jingle, or if it was just one of my mom's silly songs she used to sing all the time...but she'd always sing this when cooking with onions: "Onions, onions, fa la la, onions, onions, fa la la, adoop doop doodoo, adoop doo doooo, I love onions." Was that an actual jingle back in the 60's, trying to drum up the onion business, or was it yet another manifestation of my mom's loopiness??

OMG@ huneybumper!! I love the theme to Banana Splits!! Whenever it comes on Boomerang I drop what I'm doing (unless I'm holding The Niblet, of course) and DANCE! My 14 y/o yells for me if it comes on and he knows I'm not near the tv.

The manwich song was stuck in my head a few weeks ago but I finally shook it loose. Thanks to this post it wil probably take up residence again.

Oh damn it Perk, I keep singing those stupid Free Credit Report jingles, too. Great!

"Every day I wake up, pour myself a cup..of that fresh Folger's aroma - the best part of waking up!" (but only the Rockapella version)

@brooke - yep You don't have to be a man to love Manwich...

@ribster - the 5-dollar footlong gets me alllll the time, drives me nuts.

also, "what would you do for a klondike bar?!"

@korovka - yep goldfishes! and that's a good one to get stuck tho, I like it.

Does anyone remember:
"Kibbles and bits and bits and bits..." or
"VA VA VA VA VEGGIE POPS!" (pizza pops)
??

"I want my BBQ,BBQ,BBQ,BBQ,BBQ,BBQ,BBQ sauce" from Chili's when it had a real identity. Can't get it out of my head. Walk around day after day humming it and people are beginning to avoid me.

What kind of person clicks on a thread guaranteed to haunt her for the rest of the day?

Free credit report dot com is the absolute worst.

I'm an idiot.

The old Dr. Pepper jingle -- "I'm a Pepper, she's a Pepper, he's a Pepper, (here it goes on ad infinitum) . . . wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too? Dr. Pepper! Drink Dr. Pepper!" Not that I like it, I just REALLY remember it.

Absolut Vodka: This commercial is one of the best ever and I'd sing the song better if I could actually speak French, but it's so catchy and happy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSbb9U6GPXE

I work at a subway so I feel all of you on the 5 dollar footlong situation...

The McDonald's "Bada bababa...I'm lovin' it" campaign back in the day was pretty bad. The latest Cambell's soup commercial is constantly stuck in my head as well...

It's a honey of an O, it's Honeynut Cherios.

New Keebler Chachos, flour tortilla chips. We're making cheezy quesadilla, we're makin' cinamon crispana.

I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony...I'd like to buy the world a coke, and keep it company.

Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce cheese...

It's not the same, old side (old side).

I want my baby back, baby back, baby back...Chili's baby back ribs. Chili's baby back ribs (barbeque sauce).

J-E-L-L-O (pudding in the middle)

I'm Chicita Banana and I'm here to say a banana is something you can eat every day.

N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestle make the very best (delicious cocoa).

Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat.

You deserve a break today, at McDonalds - we do it all for you.

Meow, meow, meow, meow....

Here's to good friends, tonight is kind of special, the beer will pour...so tonight, tonight, let it be Lowenbraugh

Hot dogs, Armour Hot Dogs...the dogs kids love to bite.

Long ago there was an engineer, choo-choo-Charlie was his name we hear, he had an engine and he sure had fun. He used Good 'N Plenty candy to make his train run...

I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper...wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too...

Dunkin' Donuts, you can't buy 'em in a grocery store. Dunkin Donuts, you can't buy 'em in a bakery. Dunkin Donuts, they're not for sale in a restaurant....you have to get 'em at Dunkin Donuts, it's worth the trip.

Free credit report dot com (yeeehaw!). Should have seen it comin' at me like an atom bomb...or...I married my dream girl, married my dream girl, but she didn't tell me her credit was bad (I know it's not food related, but I ALWAYS have this in my head)

OMG, I could go on and on and on....I work in marketing and LOVE commercials - LOL!

-Dawn
Wicked Good Dinner

Weeeelllll... I agree w/ (and remember) all of the above, but melodies seem to stick in my head and do their reruns, much more than sung jingles. For example, maybe a dozen years ago Lavazza coffee put on a big ad campaign. The thing I remember most clearly - other than the building-size can of Lavazza that appeared @ some of the commercials - is the melody that was la-la-la'd in the background. Very soothing, almost sensual.

One that has been driving me crazy forever is "I feel like Chicken Tonight, like Chicken Tonight." Of course with the accompanying flapping elbows.

Dude, that Walmart add with the Queen song is killing me. It's stuck in my husband's head. He goes around singing, "we will we will stomp you." He insists that's how they sang it in the late 1970's when it was released. No sports fan, he.

Gimme back that filet o fish...gimme that fish.....