Making a Sandwich the 1950's Way

The video starts off with an old style television, our screen point of view is in black and white, and with light music.

The music reminds me of Wii loading screen jingle. Afterwards they color our screen and show us a sentence, "Let's Make a Sandwich."

Goes on to say that sandwiches are necessary and that it is Americanized. It shows two children drinking a soda and eating a wrapped sandwich.

They show a mother and daughter on our screen and they demonstrate how to make a good and proper sandwich.

The view is of all of their ingredients on the table in front of them and they are both dressed in their accurate attire.

The mother brings out the bread and the narrator has to say everything they are doing but does not include their thoughts on making the sandwich.

The writers of this commercial, I guess you could say is demonstrating that women are the only ones who do the cooking and they have to in order to feed their family.

There is no footage of men or boys helping in the kitchen and this script is the definition of what society wants everyone to be like and look like.

I do have to say they went with the right choice to make sure their actresses keep their hair back so they do not have any loose hairs in the meals.

The way that the narrator labels the pan as the simmer flame is what threw me off and confused me as I have never heard anyone say this before.

In all, the writers accurately represented on how people make sandwiches in real life and how not to make a mess either.

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