wow, no LOST references here?
My wife texted me the above image earlier and, I kid you not, this is my reply:
Dharma branded Peanut Butter 😋
Literally watching Lost right now 😂
This is a thing
xkcd did it in 2011 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/993:_Brand_Identity
I feel like they would end up charging more for this stuff than gets charged for name brand items.
The reason they said Canada is because we have a brand here called No Name in yellow packaging doing that exact thing. It’s Loblaw’s store brand.
The US did this for a while from the later 70s until the mid 80s. White-label packaging, with just the name of the foodstuff or item printed on it, in its own separate aisle. Most of these evolved later on into store brands.
Bob Loblaw?
Oh I love his law blog
And no frills sells mainly that brand
Loblaws does. That includes no frills, Zehrs, Real Canadian super store, Dominion, Maxi, T & T, Wholesale Club and many others.
You would be hard pressed not to find no name. YAY 3 WAY MONOPOLY ON FOOD!
The life of a repo man is always intense.
get outta here with your socialism
would anyone actually like that? how am i supposed to know anything about a product if it’s just called “chips”?? what’s the flavor, texture, what does it look like?
maybe partially transparent packaging would be nice, though
Australia used to have a store called no frills
Hmmm, I would buy the shit out of that aesthetic.
Yeah, no one could like that. Not like there is a whole set of us that basically live off the stuff or anything…
I am unreasonably upset by the chips bag having a picture and a splash of non-yellow on it.
Yeah, that one is odd. Some have a band of colour though. I think its when there are flavours.
Australia has black & gold but it is a generic brand, mixed in with all the others.
We former colonies know how to make a sexy looking store brand.
I like the Canadian one better. If its going to be simple then be simple.
I’m assuming the contents are all unremarkable commodities.Interestingly I (and many others) have noticed that the no name (and other store brands) are often better then the “name” brand stuff.
For example I would say KD is worse then store brand, and the store brand crackers are waaaay better then the name brand now (they seem to now over toast them).
If you grew up poor in America this is what government issued food stuffs looked like. They realized having this stuff was humiliating to the people that needed it and replaced it completely with snap cards you can use to buy whatever. Government cheese and peanut butter and milk were big staples.
there was also Generic Brand in the 80’s which looked exactly likes the pictured image with plain black text on white packaging.
https://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-misc-foods-aisle-generic-brands.html?m=1
What is this, the Oldest House?
YES A CONTROL REFERENCE IN THE WILD HELL YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Are you more excited for the show or the game sequel?
Well, this is the first time I’m hearing about a Control show. That being said… I have little hope for it. I feel like somethings should just remain games. Not everything needs to be translated to another form of media and I don’t see Control being able to pull off the same level of awe and wonder in a show that it does in a game.
Now the sequel…
hnng.
The track record is getting good, though. Fallout and Last of Us nailed it. Cyberpunk and Arcane were pretty awesome, too. Maybe they’ve figured out the formula
Last of Us, Cyberpunk and Arcane are nowhere on my radar of shows that I plan on ever watching so I can’t speak to those. Don’t have anything against it. Just doesn’t spark any interest. Fallout I’ve been meaning to watch for a while but just keep autistically shrinking back into Star Trek lmao
At the very least watch Cyberpunk. It’s magnificent. But I think it helps that the setting and themes have never just been gaming-centric and the show isn’t actually based on the most recent game.
Thanks of reminding me of the awesome premise of the Oldest House.
“Better not bring any unnecessary cultural artifacts into the reality shifting place, so that whatever is in here doesn’t have anything to latch onto.”
Cut to me bringing in a copy of budokai 3 so the oldest house makes goku real.
two spots for pistachios is positively scrumptious
Once upon a time in England we had “No Frills” which was basically exactly that
remember when Tesco products were white packages with blue stripes?
When I was poor and unemployed in the distant past, I sustained myself on Tesco value pasta at 13p a bag.
I remember their orange juice being so thick and rich for something like 30p per litre. The richer parents bought the brands with pulp
I still stand by their Finest range of orange juice with pulp. Everyone else’s is shit.
Nah, I loved gulping that battery acid
Canada still has No Frills, at least In British Columbia. They essentially get the leftovers the big-box stores don’t want.
No Frills in Ontario too
There’s a beer made in New Zealand, by garage project, called Beer. The cans look very similar to those products.
Pretty sure we’ve got it in USA too, I think I’ve seen billboards for it recently.
this looks exactly like all products in the movie repo man.
Repo man knows the code
Or in real life, today if you want
Sweden had Konsum/Domus and Blåvitt
And Japan has Muji.
Side note, Muji 無印 literally means “no brand”.
