My goodness

[undyingking]

Does anyone know (or care to speculate), what's the origin of the phrase template "full of [noun]-y goodness"?

It sounds like it ought to have come from an advert or something. But it's been used for so long with the speaker's choice of interpolated noun, I have no idea at all what the original might have been.

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[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Pedigree Chum was IIRC alleged to be full of meaty goodness. Don't know if that was the first instance, but the number of Google hits for the "meaty goodness" version beats any other variant I have so far thought to check.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Further research suggests maybe Pal rather than Pedigree Chum, although the internet is failing to provide proper confirmation. Many, many links to this ad use the phrase "meaty goodness", but the ad itself does not.

(It does however achieve breathtaking levels of retro awfulness!)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, firm meaty nourishment!

Gosh, that seems dreadfully dated for something from only 20-odd years ago. "When your husband's away..."!

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

Of course, there's always the Finger of Fudge's Cadbury Goodness.

[chilledchimp.livejournal.com]

I agree - first time I heard it was in a Pal ad.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Frustratingly, extensive research online has turned up Pal as associated only with "meaty nourishment", not "meaty goodness". If they really were ahead of Cadbury's to the latter formulation, they seem to have removed evidence of it with a positively Orwellian rigour.

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Ooh - that rings more bells for me than Stavros!