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Back in the Seventies, when inflation was running at a rate that would make the modern customer's hair curl, they introduced "generic canned goods" that were a simple white label with just the name of the contents on the can.
A photo of a generic foods aisle in the Seventies, with all the products having white labels with black printing of what is in the can.
love this picture
I sometimes forget how wildly, bizarrely dystopian non-Canadians find the No-Name brand stuff we have here.

presidents choice memories of the dharma project
A bit garish?
Coop in Sweden used to have a brand called Blåvitt (blue-white). Plain white packaging with a blue rectangle with the product name in white.
Then they started going all post-modernism and lost that strong cohesive low-cost branding. Meh.
why can’t we have nice (plain) things?
Wait for the ice-cream: twenty flavours, all taste the same, disappointment.
everyone was screaming in existential agony
I can hear his voice in my head as I read those.
whoah, the fine print!
I had to make some prop food for a film. If I had some Herzog brand Corn handy, I definitely would have put some in the same character's pantry.

what a great Easter egg!
do they have "pushing a boat over a mountain" in a tin too?