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Erin Meister trains baristas for North Carolina-based Counter Culture Coffee and sporadically maintains the blog Meet the Press Pot from her home in New York City. Check out her series of tips for the caffeine-addicted.

Vintage coffee ads are some of my favorite things: I incessantly scan YouTube for them. The treasures I find are sometimes educational but always 100 percent charming.

Like the one above. It's probably best that the Folgers team eventually went with a snappy jingle in place of this type funny-slash-cringe-inducing piece of work, but you never know. I mean, almost anybody can tell you what the best part of waking up is, but can they also tell you that the way to lure your husband back from the clutches of "those girls back at the office" is to make a decent pot of coffee?

Jim Henson, men who walk on the ceiling and more ads after the jump.

In the midst of some psyche-searing research into the most annoying food commercials of all time, we came across a 1978 Fritos ad we'd once prayed would be forever lost in time. Thanks a lot, Interweb. We're gonna have the noodly kazoo line, militant (MUNCHA!) refrain (BUNCHA!) and addled kid giggle looping through our heads all day. And goshdarnit, do we want some Fritos.

Only respite? Sharing the pain in the embedded vid above, and asking y'all to inflict your own personal food ad hell upon us via links in the comments.

Let the healing/revenge begin.