UHHHHH… could this tea towel (I’m assuming it’s a tea towel; it could, for all I know, be a banner or dishcloth or napkin) be any more ominous? Could Diana look any poutier? No, no, I thought not.
This can’t not bring you back if you were a teenage girl of the 90s with average taste in music (as I was)! I wonder if the assorted Spices ever look back and think, wow, I was so much healthier and fresher-looking back then. Because they were. I mean, Victoria was actually a normal size and she was really hot. (She was my favourite.)
Evolution of Johnson’s Baby Powder, 1940s-current!
Maybe I’m missing something here, and this will turn out to be an incredibly common thing like the turtle soup, but OXO with milk strikes me as COMPLETELY disgusting. I would never, ever want to drink OXO cubes with milk even if it is indeed “200% Nourishment”!
Now this is interesting. Most packaging has changed throughout the years, whether radically or gradually. Lyle’s Golden Syrup is one of only a handful of brands which has kept pretty much exactly the same packaging since its inception, as you can see from the picture. I think it works in their favour – golden syrup is such a traditional product.
You’ll have to look at the high res versions of the pictures to see this, but basically, in the 1930s-1950s design (L) the Sikh servant is holding a tray and serving coffee to his master. In the newer design from the 1960s onwards, the tray has been dropped and the Sikh man stands there almost as an equal. This apparently caused a huge ruckus among old-fashioned imperalistic types stationed out in India. Today, following pressure from racial equality groups in the UK, the Sikh is depicted sitting down side by side with the white man to have coffee.
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