The Unluckiest Name In History #shorts

Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

[dylatron]

I mostly just find it idiotic that people compare a weight loss candy to a deadly STD.

[kocar]

I mean, according to South Park, "aids" is how Jarod Fogle lost all his weight.

[mommytheape]

Imagine your candy being discontinued after half a century due to a disease. R.I.P💀

[sadbob]

The active ingredient was phenylpropanolamine which is a substituted amphetamine and is closely related to ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, amphetamine, and cathinone.
So Nana was gobbling speed.

[matrixphijr]

“Try Peanut Butter Ayds” DOES sound hilarious now though

[Elaisoul]

"Hey bro what are you eating"

"Aids"

[Snargfargle]

Ayds contained phenylpropanolamine, which was also found in many cold medicines of the time. It was discontinued because it was found to increase blood pressure and the risk of hemorrahgic strokes.

[sTapes-bt]

“Are they time travelers” Marketing team: “uhh this is a weight loss candy”

[martinboyle]

I remember in the early eighties how kids would bully my sister for being "fat" when she was maybe ten pounds overweight, if that.

We were both adopted at birth from different families and she was my age, but we look nothing alike, so many people didn't assume we were related even though we shared the same last name.

I'd hear what people said about her, but I had problems being bullied myself because I was short and skinny so I really didn't notice how she would take candies like Ayds and buy speed like Dexatrim and whatnot that was over the counter at every local convenience store.

Maybe she didn't take those "diet supplements" very often like other girls I knew who had them with their school lunch daily, but I'm pretty sure she did partake on occasion because there wasn't a girl I knew who wasn't trying something like that to lose weight, even if they were skinny.

My sis was bullied from the age of eleven for this and back then, before James Kirby shot a teacher at nearby Goddard Junior High school, students had never caused school shootings, so it was common that insecure junior high teachers would get in on the bullying unchecked because back then those adults seemed to need the approval of popular thirteen year olds to get through their miserable day and there wasn't anything a kid could do about it.

Today, I just revel in knowing those teachers are all old now or underground and aren't polluting any more young minds with their sick insecure thoughts and worldviews.

My point is, by the time she was fifteen, my sister looked like fricking Karen Carpenter and was about a hundred pounds soaking wet, if anything.

My dad even asked me if I thought she was anorexic. Like I said, I was dealing with problems of my own and hadn't noticed.

Looking back, I realize many companies like Ayds profited from creating impossible body images for little girls who wanted to be skinny like Brooke Shields in her Calvin Kleins and whatnot from selling ephedra, which is basically a speedball for anyone who cares to know.

Little did I understand that long before I was experimenting with tobacco, beer and pot in my sidewalk-biker youth, my sister and all her friends were tweaking hard on legal speed.

Luckily, districting was weird where we lived so our sophomore to senior year was at a high school where only eight other kids knew us from junior high, and they were the cool ones that we knew from our elementary school in our neighborhood, so all the bullying stopped and at West High we both became very popular in our own social circles.

It just seems that today when I hear about Adderall and how doctors make kids zombies to combat their ADHD or opposition rage disorder or whatever, no one seems to mention how a whole generation of little girls were made to be OTC addicts because of bullying and body-shaming.

My sister is a grandma now and all my friends tell me that she looks great, but these were all the same guys from high school that always wanted me to hook them up with her.

Just like back then, I ignore their comments because I love my sister and I sure don't want any of the hoodlums I call my friends to be my brother in law.

Plus, she's super Christian and goes to church twice a week when I avoid mass like I'm the child of Satan.

I don't hate God, but I think religion is fundamentally hypocritical and I don't really like being judged once a week by people who think their shit doesn't stink. I'm not exactly a thug, but let's just say between being in the Army and being homeless, I've endured a more cosmopolitan, streetwise background than my sister who has never lived ten miles away from where we grew up and I don't want any of my dark world spilling over into her saintly life.

I mean, the lady doesn't even cuss or drink beer. The only time I ever saw her drink was when she had one glass of champagne at her wedding, so imagine how it sits with me knowing that when we were in our early teens, my sister and all her girlfriends were one step away from being total speed freaks.

It's just that none of us knew it then. I never talk about it with her because I don't want to unearth long repressed memories of children and teachers being cruel to her.

Yet I never see any of this mentioned in the media, probably because I believe they were to blame for most of it.

Best to you all-

[DelPieroFan]

My dad gave me AYDS😃
My dad gave me AİDS💀💀💀

[GLITTER]

That must have been so sad for all those people who put their heart and soul into the work they did for that company.

[VoiZZo]

"fight aids not gays"




that's a fire bar🔥

[Mayonaiese]

People are saying that people were avoiding it on purpose when it was most likely a subliminal “back of the mind” thing

[kriscarmelo]

Those commercials crack me up. I used to struggle with my weight. Up and down like a yoyo. Until I got the aid of ayds. AIDS. Not in peanut butter. Haha

[aryastark]

Omgosh, they thought it being associated with a disease would make their product sell even more 🤦🏾‍♀️

[metroGnomeBeetseat]

It’s good you telling this story! This was such a sham of a product! Suggesting that appetite suppressants disguised as a box of chocolates, despite their truly unfortunate branding error.
Most were tempted into eating several of the candies in rapid succession! The number of honest incidents of customer success must have been on par with the exact number of people susceptible to the power of suggestion.
Skewed slightly lower though I’m sure!
So little effort was made to really understand the causes of obesity.
They had a run those who profited. Good riddance to foul rubbish.
As for those who subsequently lost their jobs? My sincere condolences.
💐

[InfinityDagger]

This is like when people thought corona beer would give you coronavirus 😭🙏

[aleysibbs]

I respect that company for not changing they names

[GabrielaLopez-ql]

I bet this guy's parents were not fans of Tuesday's! 😂