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Now I want pickles
Every vending machine in the Federal Bureau of Control.
Man I need to play that game again. Pumped for 2
It's so great. It's like the entire game was conceived on an acid trip by a paranoid old tinfoil hat hippie.
I can’t seem to find any evidence online but there did used to be a supermarket in the UK in the 80s/90s called ‘No Frills’ and all their products were also just black and white packaging.
The UK never had a No Frills. The No Frills chain started in Toronto, Ontario in 1978 and originally had the black and white packaging before switching to the. yellow and black. No Frills is a major grocery store chain in Canada, though it is owned by the Loblaws who suck balls.
In the 1990s, the chain Kwik Save launched a No Frills brand, offering cheaper generic products, an idea that has since been taken up by all of the major supermarket chains
In Korea there's a brand called No Brand. I like shopping there cause they have a few good deals and western snacks that don't get stocked in normal markets.
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.
I was going to say doesn't this already exist in Canada? LoL
Also isn't Loblaw's unbelievably horrible? Like even more evil than Walmart?
I don’t know that they’re more evil than Walmart. I think that’s probably not right but I don’t know enough to say for sure. They’ve just kinda, taken over. I’ll put it this way, I much prefer Atlantic Superstore (Loblaws) to Walmart (which I won’t even set foot in)
They’ve just kinda, taken over.
That's called a monopoly.
😅It is, isn’t it!
Though I will say smaller groceries and type-specific groceries are aliving, thriving, and cheaper here in Nova Scotia
Mandatory fuck Loblaws and Weston Galen. Fuck Jim Pattison too while we're at it.
YEAH!! WOOHOO!
There was a UK brand that do the same thing although it is black text on a white background and they do have a thin blue line as well, for extra excitement.
It's incredibly cheap stuff and not quality at all, but I suppose it is good if you want to save money. I do enjoy that a bottle of their vodka is just labelled "alcohol".
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.
Even into the 90s! I remember Albertson’s had that stuff back then.
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Who remember the "NoName" floppies and cd roms?
Quite awful quality IIRC.
This is a thing
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
black text
Oh god, oh fuck, this is like the dress again. It seems freaking golden to me
wow, no LOST references here?
My wife texted me the above image earlier and, I kid you not, this is my reply:
I was thinking of all of the stores in the movie Host.
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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?
Now they dress it up with fake farm and deli names. "Creamfields", "Hearty Food Co", "Boswell Farms". I am not fooled!
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