Brilliant! Anyone else remember those generic plain-wrap items with the white wrapping and black block lettering, back in the eighties?
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Ah, the Dharma Initiative. I so miss LOST.
In Minnesota generics were yellow with the Helvetica/sans-serif typeface. Now they’re imitating those independent, artisan companies and are putting fancypants labels on the products, with names like “Nob Hill” and “Buyers’ Select.” Some of them are quite good. Others, like the granola bars, not so much. (Dry, hardly any nuts, tastes like they used corn syrup to bind the ingredients together.)
Sometimes the plain-jane stuff is better than the artisinal stuff. I still prefer plain yellow mustard…
We had one supermarket that did white paper with a red horizontal stripe and black lettering; another had bright yellow paper and black lettering. Yes we only had 2 supermarkets.
Like HG said now they have “names” so you don’t realize they are home-brand.
Even those names will change periodically. Albertson’s name brand used to be Homelife, but now it’s Everyday Essentials. ~sigh~
When I went to college in the 80s was the first time I saw those Generic labels. I loved them. We even named our intramural sports team the Generic Players and had white shirts with “Player” written on them made up, with a UPC bar code on one sleeve.
LOL – that’s hilarious. Do you have pictures?
Sadly, No.