Pop Culture Friday

This week's pop culture question on the Onion AV Club blog is:

What are your favorite local advertisements, the ones you and your friends/family remember for years after they aired?

My favorite local commercials are from a long defunct grocery store chain that was named for and run by a cranky old virulent anti Communist rock ribbed Republican hippie hatin' man called Cas Walker. He owned and ran a chain of stores in east TN, southwest VA, and southeast KY. He also sponsored a TV show and here's one of the commercials for it and for a wonder drug ol' Cas loved:


Here's ol' Cas with a message to thieves, and back then the word 'thieves' for him meant black people:


As cheesily good as those two clips were my two favorite Cas Walker commercials are lost in the airwaves now. My favorite ad of his was an ad touting his meats. He looked into the camera and he said, "You can beat our prices, but you can't beat our meat." The other one I loved was an ad that showed a bunch of lilly white kids beating on watermelons and grinning like jackals as someone sang, "Thumpin' good, thumpin' good, Cas walker melons are thumpin' good."

Cas also printed a "newspaper,' which was really just a few pages that highlighted what was on sale that week in his stores, a few articles extolling capitalism and excoriating anyone to the left of Richard Nixon, and a crazy poll question that usually went something like this:
I support the war in Vietnam because

A) I love America and our way of life!
B) Communism must be stopped before it hits our shores!
C) I don't support the war because I'm a dirty no good pot smoking hippie who wants everybody to go on welfare!

Cas died and his grocery store empire was broken up. The store closest to me, the one in Pennington Gap, VA, was sold to the Piggly Wiggly chain, which was one of Cas's most hated rivals.

Now, what are your favorite local commercials?