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Jose Cuervo is the best-selling tequila brand in the world and encompasses eleven different types of tequila. The company is family owned and has always been based in Mexico. The location is critical since tequila is made only from blue agave plants produced in Mexico.

Cinco de Mayo is a national holiday in Mexico celebrating the date of the Mexican army’s victory over France at the Battle of Puebla in 1862 during the Franco-Mexican War. It is only a minor holiday in Mexico, but in the US it has grown to encompass a celebration of Mexican heritage. US cities with large Mexican-American populations hold celebrations each year.

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This button was part of a Volkswagen (VW) advertising campaign from 1971. In the ad, predictions were made about the future of the VW Bug including the Bug's longevity and ongoing popularity. 

Volkswagen is a German car company headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. Founded in 1937, Volkswagens were built to stimulate the German economy. Adolf Hitler ordered the car's production and made it available to all citizens of the Third Reich through a savings plan that would make the car about the same price as a motorcycle. After WWII, Volkswagen became a symbol of West Germany regeneration and in 1949, the first VW was sold in the United States.

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The "Big Whitey" was a hamburger made by White Tower restaurants. White Tower was created in 1926 after Milwaukee dance hall owner John Saxe and his son Thomas visited several successful White Castle restaurants. The duo unabashedly copied the established, successful business by decorating the buildings similarly and borrowed a similar slogan to White Castle’s, "Buy 'em by the sack," using, "Take Home a Bagful." The restaurant served a burger known as the whitey in regular size with the king size being dubbed, “Big Whitey.” 

White Tower restaurants were involved in several civil rights issues and lawsuits. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, White Castle successfully sued White Tower for copying its brand. The court sided with White Castle and in 1934, White Tower had to undergo a style change away from it’s medieval look. In 1951, the restaurant was in the news after one of its Washington D.C. locations refused to serve a Puerto Rican student and his African-American classmate on a field trip to learn about democracy. In the early 1960s, a Bronx, New York, location was picketed by protesters for not hiring minority workers. 

In the 1950s, the restaurant peaked with 230 locations across the Midwest and East coast and as far south as Sarasota, Florida. By the 1980s, the number of restaurants was down to 80. Today, there is only one White Tower location operating in Toledo, Ohio.

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Planet Hollywood is a celebrity themed restaurant that first opened in New York City in October of 1991. Inspired by the popular portrayal of Hollywood, each restaurant displays memorabilia from iconic movies, like Judy Garland's "Dorothy" dress from the Wizard Oz. With endorsements from high profile celebrities such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Whoopi Goldberg, the restaurants gained rapid success, expanded to different countries, and opened a few resorts as well.

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Peppy Flame was the mascot for the Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) based out of Merrillville, IN and founded in 1912. This mascot was originally created in 1957 to promote the natural gas business and was used in advertising into the 1970s. Peppy’s blue hair is a good sign when using natural gas and is indicative of complete combustion. NIPSCO operates to this day in northern Indiana and serves more than 821,000 natural gas customers and 468,000 electric customers.

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Procter & Gamble began selling Pringles in 1967 under the name "Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips." The moniker didn't stick around, but the chips did. In 2012 Pringles was the fourth most popular snack behind Lay's, Doritos and Cheetos.

Pringles is advertised in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Ireland with the slogan, "Once you pop, the fun don't stop" as well as the original slogan, "Once you pop, you can't stop." Pringles chips are sold in over 140 countries and due to cultural preferences, the chips come in a very wide variety of flavors. Notable regularly produced flavors are prawn cocktail, wasabi, curry, soft-shelled crab, grilled shrimp, and seaweed. There are also limited addition and seasonal flavors like ketchup, chili cheese dog, pizzalicious, Texas BBQ sauce, cheesy fries, onion blossom, mozzarella cheese stick, screamin' dill pickle, Mexican-layered dip, peppermint white chocolate, cinnamon sugar, and pumpkin pie spice.

Fredric Baur, the creator of the Pringles chips, told his family he wanted his cremated remains to be buried in a Pringles can, and his children honored those wishes. Baur's son told TIME magazine, "My siblings and I briefly debated what flavor to use... but I said, 'Look, we need to use the original.'"

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Old Crow Bourbon was created by James Crow, a Scottish immigrant, in Frankfort, Kentucky in the early 1800s. After nearly a century of operations, the Old Crow Distillery closed in 1987 when Old Crow was acquired by Beam Suntory, a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings. Following the merger, Old Crow Bourbon is produced from the same whiskey as Jim Beam Bourbon. However, to make Old Crow the whiskey is aged for less time so the resulting product has a lower proof.

There are many references to Old Crow in popular culture. The drink was reportedly a favorite of Mark Twain and Hunter S. Thompson.

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Chevrolet’s 1975 commercial ad campaign praised, “Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet.” The jingle was written by Ed Labunski and went on to inspire several more commercials.

The enduring success of the campaign prompted Chevy to re-record the commercial in 2006, modernizing the line to, “Stolen Bases, Goat Cheese Pizza, Bottled Water and Chevrolet." A back and forth series of tributes to the campaign followed. A General Motors subsidiary recorded their own version. In Australia, the Holden Car company popularized the slogan, “Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden Cars.” In South Africa, where Chevys were designed based on Holden Cars, the campaign extolled “Braaivleis, Rugby, Sunny Skies and Chevrolet” (Braaivleis is Afrikaans for grilled meat).