There are several mock commercials for products like Klenzrite, a washing soap peddled by an animated character called Miss Mop Up.
BMWs and Lexus sedans share the streets with hordes of tiny taxis and Soviet-era streetcars, and pensioners line the sidewalks peddling soaps, samovars and women's underwear.
His first job out of school was peddling Dial soap door- to-door to bodegas in bad neighborhoods — an environment so rough that even a brawny guy like Larkin hid his daily receipts in his lunch bag.
Mr. Laurimé peddled soap at a stand outside the Nepalese base, which sits on the banks of a fly-specked stream that flows into the Latem and then into Haiti's longest river, the Artibonite.
After a tour in Vietnam, Pujals peddled soap for Procter &Gamble, then surgical supplies for Johnson &Johnson.
Tessa Coneys and Madeline Warlan, both from Huntington and both 15, tried peddling their decorative soaps two years ago.
Yusof recently had several posts about a credit score service, which still look "cool" without looking like she's peddling acne medication under soap opera-style lighting.
The men Ms. Teer later picked to be her lead partners in that effort, Richelieu Dennis and Nyema Tubman, began their careers on 125th Street, peddling organic shea-butter soaps, much like the ones Mr. Dennis's grandmother once sold at village markets in Africa.
Of course, such internal rivalry has not prevented giant marketers like General Motors or Procter & Gamble from peddling a panoply of cars, trucks, detergents and soaps that all vie for consumer favor.
PLDT, Mr Gokongwei implies, is no different from the soap bars that he peddled from his bicycle as a youth: an opportunity for a good trader to make money.
