Is Bosco real?

George likes Bosco chocolate syrup so much, he made Bosco his PIN. (I refuse to say "PIN number," which means "Personal Identification Number number.") :-) But is Bosco a real product? I have never heard of it outside of the show.+

Michael Alexander

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In french we say Nip... Elaine would be proud

Mo

Yep, it is. We were watching that episode once, and my stepfather told me about how his mother used to buy it, and he hated it because it tastes disgusting.

Alexande59 wrote:

Growing up in Toronto Canada in the 50's where we received TV programs from Buffalo New York I remember seeing the commercials for Bosco from the US but we could not buy it here. There used to be a silly song from the commercial that we made a parody of that went something like..

I like Bosco. It's so bad for me. Momma puts in in my milk To try and poison me...

Subject: Re: Is Bosco real? From: "The News Guy(Mike)" Date: Wed, Nov 4, 1998 5:54 AM Message-id:

Alexande59 wrote:

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Growing up in Toronto Canada in the 50's where we received TV programs from Buffalo New York I remember seeing the commercials for Bosco from the US but we could not buy it here. There used to be a silly song from the commercial that we made a parody of that went something like..

I like Bosco. It's so bad for me. Momma puts in in my milk To try and poison me...

Wow, I cant believe this ad is still in my head! First the music came back (g octave up g ecedcbag...) (I guess trying to write music on the net doesnt work too well.) I have the worst memory in the world for lyrics and yet I remember this accursed ad: I love bosco, it's rich and chocolatey. Chocolate flavored bosco with sunshine vitamin D. mama puts it in my milk for extra energy. dadadada Bosco dadadadadada...Cant get the last line. Maybe that's where the poison part comes in :)

It's a little scary how I could remember that damn ad and the music and the whole thing after all this time. Never even tasted the stuff. The power of TV.

Raining (aka raingluttn)

I like Bosco. It's so bad for me. Momma puts in in my milk To try and poison me...

** If you must know, it continues:

           But I fooled Momma.
           I put it in her tea.
           So now I've got no Momma
           To poison little me.

Mark L.

"Mark L. Levinson" wrote:

Thanks Mark - where was this little song sung? Was it all over North America? where did you learn it?

Curious.

mike

Mike wrote: Thanks Mark - where was this little song sung? Was it all over North America? where did you learn it?

      ** I learned it in the 1950s in the
         suburbs of Boston.  I guess it's
         up to the rest of alt.tv.seinfeld
         to testify where else it thrived.
                                            Mark L.

it's real, and it's good stuff. Assuming you like chocolate, it's at least as good as Hershey's or Quik or Ovaltine, but older folks who remember when Bosco was on top will tell you no other syrup compares.

Here's what the old commercial used to sound like: http://www.earthstation1.simplenet.com/tv/bosco.wav

And if your curiosity gets the best of you, you can order Bosco syrup
from the "50's Grocery Store"
*http://www.hometownfavorites.com/
Head down the Beverage aisle.
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Dave wrote:

Dave - It's real and it's Spectacular!

PS- probably won't come south this winter but may give you a shout next time we do get down your way. When did you work with IBM - I have lots of stories about IBMers as I purchased computers for many years here.

Gotta drive my daughter to school - Cheers.

they Bosco at the grocery store i work at, and my friend has a bottle in his house, it cracks me up everytime i see it

Excellent!

I don't think I'm so old (36) and I seem to remember having Bosco growing up.

Anyway.....I always had a bit of a problem with the episode. "Bosco" makes no sense as a PIN #. I've had lots of atm cards and the PIN # has always been just 4 digits. Anybody out there have one with 5? Maybe George skips a letter, but how would Susan, or Peterman's dying mother, know which letter to leave out? It really never made sense to me!

richforman

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Maybe it's like 1-800-MATTRESS. You leave off the last 'S' when you dial the number. I'm assuming George's actual PIN is the numeric equivalent of BOSC, which would be 2672 using the phone keypad.

That would make Jerry's "Jor-El" PIN 5673.

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Actually, I don't think you leave it off.. I think as soon as you complete the first 11 digits, the system has a complete number and begins to connect. It disregards superflous numbers. This *may* be the case with 4 digit PIN's. Although my PIN's are all 4 digit, isn't it possible that ATM's allow selections of 4-7 digits??

homerr - - Tri-Valley, CA [email] [remove 1-2 to reply]

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." .. Coach John Wooden, the Wizard of Westwood.

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Six, here. (Haven't used it in years--come to think of it, haven't used Bosco in years, but I recollect we were allowed four to six alphanumeric characters in selecting a PIN.)

Did you ever think that they didn't want to use a valid pin number so that if people had a pin number that was actually the same as the one used on the show, it wouldn't be given away. This is common TV policy as valid phone numbers are never given. 555 is always used. This is a similar practice.

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My PIN has 6 digits...i've never heard of one with so few as 4...

Huh? Sorry Stalkers, this makes no sense! Think about it... It's not the same as with the phone numbers. They give a real phone # on a show, people can start calling it and bothering whosever number it really is. What are they gonna do with a pin#, start using it with their own atm cards? The machine would probably eat their card after three tries! If someone out there had the same pin # mentioned on the show, it couldn't possilby matter unless you knew WHO did, and had their card! Which you probably couldn't tell just from watching a Seinfeld episode.

richforman

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My pin is 6 numbers (actually I picked letters) . Bosco is indeed real and why couldn;t that be someone's PIN?

In article , <StAlKeRrs> wrote:

555 is defacto for phone numbers, but real street names are often used. There is no consistency! And that bothered me about the Bosco episode too. I have never seen a PIN with alpha characters, but even if these did occur I wonder if the keypad is similar to a phone keypad so that George just could have given his PIN as 26726. Food for thought.

-Steve

Many people pick alpha characters so they can remember their PIN's. My 6 digit PIN is a word I chose. Of course a PIN keypad is the same as a phone keypad. What planet are you from?

In article , "Steve" wrote:

How the hell does something this minute have anything to do with Seinfeld?!?!?

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Ratboy:

Here's what the old commercial used to sound like: http://www.earthstation1.simplenet.com/tv/bosco.wav

And if your curiosity gets the best of you, you can order Bosco syrup from the "50's Grocery Store" *http://www.hometownfavorites.com/ Head down the Beverage aisle.>

My God, is there ANYTHING you don't know about?

Yes it is, but it is no longer on the market. It was just like Hershey's syrup. My sister liked the episode so much that she named her dog Bosco.

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Yes! Bosco is real. It is simply the best chocolate syrup in the world. It was the number chocolate syrup brand in the U.S. from the 1920s through the 1960s and, best of all, it's coming back!