1970s ROMAN MEAL BREAD TV COMMERCIALS WHOLE GRAIN BREAD XD45064s

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These TV commercials for Roman Meal bread date to the early to mid 1970s, promoting the "light brown bread with natural whole grain goodness". Roman Meal bread is still sold today. It is baked with whole wheat, whole rye, flaxseed, wheat germ, honey, and malted barley. According to the ads, the entire whole wheat kernel is preserved in the process.
Roman Meal Company was founded in Tacoma, Washington in 1912 and focused on whole-grain products, including bread, hot cereal, and snack bars. The company was founded on the principles that Canadian physician Robert Jackson believed to have been the components of the healthful regimen of Roman soldiers. The trademark is now owned by Flowers Foods.
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@HipnikDragomir 2 жыл бұрын

What a calm commercial. I'm so tired of today's explosive nonsense.

@PeriscopeFilm 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! This bread is what I used to have for lunch every day as a kid. Consider becoming a channel member kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hapyipahu8fMhXk.html

@albear972 2 жыл бұрын

You obviously have not seen the 1950's television animated ads for headache pills.

@HipnikDragomir 2 жыл бұрын

@@albear972 You're right. I haven't.

@scratchdog2216 2 жыл бұрын

Born in '65. Ate it as a kid. I'd quite forgotten about it.

@danorthsidemang3834 2 жыл бұрын

I loved Roman Meal bread as a kid

@natehawkins2910 2 жыл бұрын

That’s all I ate growing up in the mid to late 80’s. It was very good, and a little sweet bread. We always used Country Crock buttery spread on it.

@donnsunderland2684 2 жыл бұрын

In the 1950's - 60's Mom always packed our lunches with egg salad and peanut butter sandwiches on Roman Meal. I can close my eyes and easily recall the flavor of that unique bread.

@thunderbird1921 2 жыл бұрын

I'm likely younger than most commenting here (20s), but I still recall that even in the early 2010s that bread being possibly the best I've ever eaten (at least from a store brand). DARN GOOD STUFF. I'm not surprised at all to see they've been loved for decades.

@monicdavis6150 2 жыл бұрын

❤️I forgot about Roman meal. Great commercial.

@MichiganPeatMoss 2 жыл бұрын

I remember that "plain folks appeal" ad pitch at getting to our stomachs. :)

@thewiseguy3529 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this bread. I remember wanting the crust removed as a kid lol 😂

@notshared4072 8 ай бұрын

Wow. Totally forgot about this, but it was once the only kind of bread we bought.

@MillerMeteor74 2 жыл бұрын

I don't remember those commercials at all, but I do remember that my mom used to buy that bread back then.

@erickrobertson7089 2 жыл бұрын

That was expensive bread at the time. I got hollered at once for feeding it to the cats.

@BlueBelle1910 2 жыл бұрын

Oh no! 😂

@joekurtz8303 2 жыл бұрын

There's still time to Doxx & cancel your oppressor, no statute of limitations.

@777FreakyD 2 жыл бұрын

Forgot about this bread

@rodneyoneal8428 2 жыл бұрын

I remember that good bread. Yum yum yum. 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

@captainamericaamerica8090 2 жыл бұрын

IT'S STILL.AROUND

@samiam5557 2 жыл бұрын

@@captainamericaamerica8090 not in Michigan it isn't

@joesno6081 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this stuff

@Kiellis 2 жыл бұрын

"The Roman Meal company thought you´d like to to know"

@77hodag 2 жыл бұрын

This man seems trustworthy.

@commentatron 2 жыл бұрын

He does, doesn't he? A roomful of aspiring actors auditioned these lines. Eventually, this man was chosen for his superior ability to hide his pretense. That, or he's the inventor of Roman Meal bread and truly believes what he's saying.

@NickKaminski1980 2 жыл бұрын

The brand was sold in 2015. Originally from Tacoma, Washington, their building there, althought it houses another company, still bears the yellow and red company colors.

@samiam5557 2 жыл бұрын

I wish they still sold Roman Meal bread.

@JBASH2011 2 жыл бұрын

This is all we ever had in my house in the 70s

@rofufoja 2 жыл бұрын

I just ate my lunch and the bread looked exactly like this. It looks like typical Dutch bread

@danielginther4879 2 жыл бұрын

I remember this product. 3 hours after first eating it I couldn't sneeze with confidence. More fiber than bailing twine. Right up there with buckwheat pancakes or a breakfast of Rusketts. Seems like Roman meal did a better job of getting sunny Jim peanut butter off the roof of your mouth too.

@bender7565 2 жыл бұрын

Haven't thought of RMB in 50 years.

@A3Kr0n 2 жыл бұрын

We got the local stuff. None of this fancy advertised stuff, but I remember the commercials.

@johnwilhelm9854 2 жыл бұрын

We had it growing up. I seem to remember it from 1970s.

@wdh47211 2 жыл бұрын

That was good bread

@karenspivey3203 2 жыл бұрын

I remember this!

@irishfuk3219 2 жыл бұрын

Grew up with RM. It was my sandwich bread

@jackuzi8252 2 жыл бұрын

That was the only bread my grandmother fed us.

@aarond23 2 жыл бұрын

I remember this as being something 'different' in my childhood when most people just ate something like Wonder Bread or other white bread

@dixgun 6 ай бұрын

👍

@Chilly_Billy 2 жыл бұрын

If you're a fan of Roman Meal Bread, look for Nickles Light 35 bread. To me it tastes very similar although the texture is a bit different. It's also a significantly lower carb option for those wanting to lose weight on a keto diet or help control diabetes.

@natehawkins2910 2 жыл бұрын

I think the Nickles light 35 contains chicory root fiber as a filler to keep calorie count low? It’s a decent bread but who knows about its nutritional content with that filler. Their Navarre bakery plant is only 15 min from my house!

@ultramet 2 жыл бұрын

Roman Meal…when the word “gluten” wasn’t banned. This bread was amazing.

@talfacprez 2 жыл бұрын

ROMAN MEAL BREAD was the only bread she would buy.

@greenmonsterprod 2 жыл бұрын

I remember my grandparents preferred this bread, back in the day. We preferred Wonder Bread.

@brucewelty7684 2 жыл бұрын

Last time I saw this bread was 2011 in a Houston TX Kroger store

@Sennmut 2 жыл бұрын

I remember those ads. Seems like a million years ago. Who was the actor?

@IIBNG76 2 жыл бұрын

Andy Romano

@commentatron 2 жыл бұрын

I believe it's Al Pacino's sister's brother-in-law's cat-sitter's nephew.

@Loren8762 2 жыл бұрын

@@IIBNG76 Thank you for sharing that, it was nagging me that he seemed a little bit familiar but I wasn’t sure who he was. I looked him up, he’s still alive today at 85 years old.

@teletubetodd 6 ай бұрын

The actor may have been the late Clint Ritchie, a regular on "One Life to Live."

@Machi74005 2 жыл бұрын

Roman Meal was sold in Kroger and Walmart stores until just a few years ago. Now, I can't find it anywhere.

@tedpeterson1156 2 жыл бұрын

You'll get nothing - and like it, Comrade

@Chilly_Billy 2 жыл бұрын

If you can find it, try Nickles 35 Light bread. It's very similar to Roman Meal Bread but without the honey to significantly reduce carbs. I really missed RMB until trying this current product.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist 2 жыл бұрын

Roman meal and beefsteak memories of youth. Still can find beefsteak all over but I can't find Roman meal but when it comes to wheat. I just use nature's own

@Nunofurdambiznez 2 жыл бұрын

We had this bread every other day...the other days we had Wonder bread.. none of us liked whole wheat ANYTHING at the time, but, mother INSISTED we eat Roman meal bread at least 3 times a week.. now, of course, whole wheat everything is a big part of everyone's diet.

@teletubetodd 6 ай бұрын

This was some of the most misleading advertising I ever saw. It fooled my family when we got Roman Meal Bread, only to find that the "natural" ingredients the late Clint Ritchie (from "One Life to Live") spoke of here were but a fraction of the whole roster of ingredients, which also included sugar (more sugar than honey), enriched white flour (again, more white than wheat, rye or bran), and Calcium Propionate as a preservative. Also misleading was the orange-tinted wrapper the bread came in, which made it look darker brown on the grocery shelf that it really was; it was just a shade below white bread. And it didn't taste that different, either. If you want honest-to-goodness whole-grain wheat, rye or bran bread, get it at Whole Foods or Trader Joe's - and be sure to check the fine print on the wrapper!

@mikee1967 2 жыл бұрын

.... We love that roman meal most on sandwiches or toast, for all that natural whole grain goodness....

@TheDoorspook11c 2 жыл бұрын

Process over flash

@user-nb9xl1cf4m 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite bread! Glad they are sold in SOUTH Korea too! (In Costco and local supermarkets)

@geraldtanaka4746 2 жыл бұрын

What happened to them anyway?

@thethrashpanda 4 ай бұрын

Shoutout to Pink Floyd for sending me here.

2 жыл бұрын

Any connection with the Roman frozen pizzas ?

@johnbender5356 2 жыл бұрын

They had one showing Roman soldiers marching too. Funny now I have the movie AIRPLANE on my mind.....do you like movies about gladiators?The funniest line in the movie

@soundspartan 2 жыл бұрын

Gladiators, it was movies about Gladiators, but yes, it's a funny line, the WHOLE movie is great!

@johnbender5356 2 жыл бұрын

@@soundspartan yeah gladiators..lol

@soundspartan 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnbender5356 . . . where'd you leave the towmotor? . . . it's over THERE!

@MacNifty 2 жыл бұрын

Bread of the Pope.

@DWBurns 2 жыл бұрын

To this day I refuse to eat anything that says whole grain. I was forced to endure a childhood of Roman Meal and I refuse to ever eat sandpaper again in my life. As a responsible father my daughter has never had whole-grain.

@notfooled. 2 жыл бұрын

If made today in the UK, this commercial would end with him and his mixed race boyfriend, interlocking arms and gazing lovingly at each other as they eat sandwiches, filled with sustainable, meat free products

@cavejelly 2 жыл бұрын

So basically sugar bread.

@nickv1008 2 жыл бұрын

Not really enough honey to taste. Glad it wasnt high fructose corn sweetner.

@commentatron 2 жыл бұрын

Shhhh. Roman Meal thought you'd prefer the fantasy.

@nickv1008 2 жыл бұрын

In the early1970s no one ate "healthy", the foods back then were just healthy. .....Then there was the hydrogenated era, and the GMOs, and "diet" foods. ..so now we get cancer, and heart disease, but the alzheimer's and dementia keep us from remembering why.

@erickrobertson7089 2 жыл бұрын

What a good observation. Heart disease was a relatively unknown disease until the advent of margarine. At one time we all ate organic and processed foods were a luxury. Now it's the other way around.

2 жыл бұрын

"press X for doubt"...don't be fooled by the rose-tint childhood nostalgia buddy ! The 70s were the era of industrialization of food everywhere, it was getting less and less healthy..."enriched flour", extra-gluten added to help panification, "flavorings",... Especially in bread, where I live (France), the seventies were the decade of the "industrial white loaves" that nearly killed our baguette artisans. It was getting so much out of hand the government had to take a decree in the early 1990s to save traditional bread, forbidding most additives and mandating bread sold in boulangeries had to be made on premises.

@nickv1008 2 жыл бұрын

@@erickrobertson7089 just blame it on ike in1955.