Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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Kool-Aid - July 1954 (i.imgur.com)

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Let's drink a Kood-Aid

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You know kool-aid is pure…

Wut?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was at a restaurant last night and they had some vintage signs on the walls. One was an ad for ketchup and it said "Guaranteed 100% Pure"... and I don't even know what that means in terms of ketchup (or in this case Kool-Aid).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It’s that era’s “made with natural ingredients”. It means nothing, just marketing blabber.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Between 1910 and 1960 there was a weird fascination with the purity of things. Ivory soap (99% pure) is a hold over from that time. It was probably coded eugenics or some racist undercurrent among consumers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Offhand I think "grape" is my least-favorite artificial flavor of all time, but lookie there-- that's a rather pleasant photo!

Maybe because it sort of balances secondary colors of purple, green, and off-oranges.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you imagine how much photoshopping work it took to get that hue? And photoshop was probably only available in black and white at the time.