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Question re: Um Bongo
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:48 pm
by jimslip
Can anyone tell me if "Um Bongo" is actually drunk in the Congo?
Re: Question re: Um Bongo
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:55 pm
by Marino
Apparently way down deep in the bottom.
Re: Question re: Um Bongo
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:08 pm
by BeestonBoy
According to this they do
And no one in advertising would lie just to make money.....would they?
Cheers
BB
Re: Question re: Um Bongo
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:09 pm
by Jacques
Um Bongo was only brewed and drunk in the Congo after it had been bought out from what were to go on to be the PG Tips monkeys.
The Hippo flaunted the recipe in the advert as if he'd invented it. In reality, he gave the PG Tips monkeys plane tickets to England in exchange for the rights to the recipe.
If you have any sense, you'll refrain from buying this product as the Hippo and Rhino (who pretended to come up with the name) are charlatans. They and the PG Tips monkeys were all unavailable for comment, as was Lucky the Dog from the More Than insurance adverts.
Re: Question re: Um Bongo
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:51 pm
by colonel
It was first distributed by the elephant from Elephant.co.uk.
That's Elephant.co.uk.