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to the Bootz distillery. Weekly or biweekly, the best limericks were published in small front-page newspaper ads, provided of course that they would mention the brand name Tip van Bootz. The result of this long-running advertising campaign was that Dutch people during the mid 20th century strongly
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associated limericks, as a form of verse, with the brand Tip van Bootz. Due to its orange colour Tip van Bootz was a huge success in the first post-war years, when Dutch consumers embraced anything that reminded them of the reinstated royal
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Tip van Bootz was launched by the Bootz distilling company in 1931 to compensate for the declining sales of its top product
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