Post #629747 by TikiTomD on Fri, Mar 23, 2012 5:47 AM

Aloha, Q-tiki and Club Nouméa! I ran across those great ads doing the Dr. Funk research. They were so outrageous that I just had to share them. CN, I had no idea, but indeed, Eno’s Fruit Salt is still manufactured today by GlaxoSmithKline. There’s even an entry for it in Wikipedia. It is apparently similar in its composition to the antacid, Alka-Seltzer. So, Q-tiki, you're in luck for that one!

Here’s a write-up on Eno’s Fruit Salt at The Quack Doctor web site and a really interesting historical overview at B.J. Cossar’s clipper ships & naval war history web site. From the latter site, “Two of the more remote places that Eno's was shipped to at this time were Thursday and Easter Islands. At this time [the 1920s] Easter Island only received mail once every nine months!”

Eno’s prolific ads and posters supported artists everywhere...

Here’s the modern product...

-Tom