Captain Birdseye is the advertising mascot for the Birds Eye frozen food brand founded by Clarence Birdseye. Appearing in numerous television and billboard commercials, he has been played or modelled by various actors and is generally depicted as a clean living, older sailor with a white beard, dressed in merchant naval uniform and with a seafaring accent. In Germany he is known as "Käpt'n Iglo", in France as "Captain Iglo" (the word "captain" being in English), in Portugal as "Capitão Iglo", in Italy as "Capitan Findus" and in The Netherlands as "Kapitein Iglo". Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... Birds Eye is a company which operates in the UK making and selling frozen fish, meat and vegetables. ... Birdseyes double belt freezer (US Patent #1,773,079) Clarence Birdseye (December 9, 1886 - October 7, 1956) was an American inventor who is considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry. ... Billboard redirects here. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Merchant Marine. ...

The mascot is a reference to the brand's extensive and well-known range of frozen seafood products, of which fish fingers is probably the most-widely known. Because the Birds Eye brand is marketed to families, many of the advertising compaigns feature Captain Birdseye as having a 'crew' composed mostly of children in the preteen to teenage age groups, encouraging brand loyalty from children and emphasising the convenience of serving the company's products to their parents. A recent 2005 advertising campaign in the UK features Captain Birdseye categorically proclaiming that Birds Eye frozen readymade meals contain no artificial flavours or preservatives, with obvious references to the products being healthy and nutritious to children. Spaghetti with seafood (Spaghetti allo scoglio). ... Fishsticks or fish fingers are a processed food made using a white fish such as cod which have been battered and/or breaded. ... A separate article is about the punk band called The Adolescents. ... Brand loyalty has been proclaimed by some to be the ultimate goal of marketing. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The actor most associated with Captain Birdseye was John Hewer, who played the character from 1967 to 1998. Hewer died on 16 March 2008.^[1] For a while in the late 90s, Captain Birdseye became a much younger, rugged, dark-haired man with designer stubble and a miniature submarine, who indulged in far more action-packed adventures accompanied by his pet pelican named Pedro, the advertising agencies presumably believing that the older white-bearded man would no longer have the same appeal to children as he once did. This version did not last long however, and the better-known version soon returned. John Hewer (born 13 January 1922, Leyton, London, died 16 March 2008 in Twickenham, London) was an English actor. ... is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Submarine (disambiguation). ...

Oddly, the character is these days most famous for being used as a 'handle' on the Chelsea Football Club website where, with effortless ease, he annoys the regular contributors, sometimes generating long, vituperative threads. He was an ardent supporter of Avram Grant, eschewing the more common tendency of the page for homo erotic, slavish devotion to the memory of the previous manager, Jose Mourinho. The similarity with ex-Chelsea and current Leeds United owner Ken Bates is also played upon. He is also a complete and utter genius who insulted Frank Lampard. Leeds United F.C. is the only professional association football club in Leeds. ... Kenneth William Bates (born 4 December 1931 in Ealing, London) is an English businessman and football executive commonly known as Ken Bates. ...

Allusions

• In the UK television sitcom Only Fools and Horses, Derek Trotter once mockingly called Uncle Albert 'Captain Birdseye', in reference to their similar appearances and Uncle Albert's naval past.
• The Goodies parodied the adverts as 'Captain Fishface', ending with a note saying "Captain Fishface has your children. If you want them back send 2000 wrappers from Fishface Cod Pieces (after all...ye don't know what goes into my rissoles, do ye?...)"
• Spoofs of the Birds Eye commercials featuring "Captain Fishy, the man with the fishy fingers" were featured by DJ Steve Wright on BBC Radio 1 in the UK in the early 1990s.

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