What? 1956 ad: Pepsi Cola is the choice drink of mental patients when forced fluids are indicated.

Love those old ads. I’d walk a mile for a camel. Most doctors recommend Kent cigarrettes.

How is that forcing fluids?

I like Coke~Cola better. Is that a good sign of my mental health?

Wundayatta, good question. I thought forced fluids would be a bag of IV saline, not IV Pepsi.

Who knows what they were thinking in 1956.

This came from an article on Yahoo News this morning. I was amazed to see a glass and a glass straw sitting on a table in a mental hospital.

Pele, yes, its a sign of good health that you like Coke better than Pepsi. U R okay.

No wonder they are in a mental institution, they like Pepsi

If I recall correctly (I was in sort of a haze at the time) the Pepsi was administered as an enema.

@ratboy wtf

Sometimes they put tobasco sauce in that enema, too. They were a cruel bunch in those days.

@ratboy lol (and that’s oxford dictionary english now).