I happen to know EXACTLY what Santorum was saying...

[PCIntern]

Those of us old enough to remember the Yoo Hoo Commercials of the late 1950's and early 1960's will recall that at the end of the song:

Yoo Hoo in can or in bottle...
Yoo Hoo in cold drink or hottle...
What do the champions drink ? Yoo Hoo..
etc.

...a cow would come on and say..."It only costs a ni...ni...ni... (pause) five cents."

He was just channeling an old TeeVee ad...yeah...that's the ticket!!!

(I believe the product was Yoo Hoo...on second thought it MIGHT have been a candy bar of some sort, but I DO think it was Yoo Hoo.)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. What are you saying? That back then they wanted you to think the n word?? nt

[PCIntern]

2. Jesus...

no...the cow couldn't pronounce the word "nickel"..

On edit: the ad was on Ny TeeVee including but not limited to Channel 11(WPIX) and Channel 9 (WOR), and Channel 5 (WNEW) CONTINUOUSLY when I was a kid...noticed your I love NY avatar...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. I didn't think so...but when you said it reminded you of today......Yep...Yankees. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. p.s. grew up in CT...no Yoo-Hoo there that I remember. thought it was southern. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. It's me he for you hoo

Yoo-hoo originated in New Jersey in the 1920s, when Italian-American Natale Olivieri sold "Tru-Fruit" soft drinks in his small store. Olivieri discovered a process to produce a chocolate soft drink that would not spoil.[1] The name Yoo-hoo, already being used for Olivieri's other fruit drinks, was applied to the chocolate-flavored drink as well. Yoo-hoo would soon begin to be bottled by a major bottling company and to be sold in supermarkets and shops worldwide.[citation needed]

A bottling plant was opened up in Batesburg, South Carolina by Tommy Giresi in the 1940s.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Yoo-hoo went through a large promotional campaign that included Yogi Berra and the New York Yankees officially sponsoring the drink. The image of Berra drinking a bottle of Yoo-hoo while wearing a suit, in particular, became famous. The ads featured Berra holding the bottle next to his face and saying with a smile, "It's Me-He for Yoo-Hoo!"

[PCIntern]

6. ...and NiHi...orange I believe...

I always thought YooHoo was a ripoff: chocolate-flavored water...now of course people pay 1.50 for PLAIN water in a plastic bottle which tastes like the bottle. At least YooHoo was in glass if you got a bottle of it.