Showing posts with label canned fruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label canned fruit. Show all posts

Monday, March 18, 2013


No theme to this, just some can labels I enjoy.  "Below U.S. Standard" does not applies to the first's contents.


Everything's more attractive and affecting with a lighthouse on it!


Wish my scanner could better pick up the shiny gold-foil details on this one.  Still Apollonian without it.




Saturday, March 16, 2013

One sometimes see ads advertising the nonavailability in a product, during the WWII requisitioning and rationing of (formerly) consumer goods.  All else aside, it's a fascinating advertising phenomemenon: You can't have these.  Sure be nice when you can, though, sometime in the totally indefinite future, huh?"  From 1942:




Saturday, February 23, 2013

I really prefer my ads to be unpopulated by humans, but this one's nice enough to appeal to me anyway - those peaches!



Thursday, February 7, 2013

One runs into this can label rather often, but scarcity wouldn't make it any less meritorious.


Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Sugar used to be promoted nearly as a health force, a fine source of essential "food energy (common phrase) and downright wholesome.   Look at that small picture of the sugar scoop pouring used to connote nourishing goodness!  Still love this ad.