Episode 81: Fun Food Containers
History repeats itself... There are no new ideas… Everything old is new again…
Sure, we get excited when we have custom meal kits delivered to our homes or when we see amazing food in farmer’s markets and grocery stores near our homes. But food marketing has been around for a really long time. Today we discuss a couple of popular approaches from yesterday that continue to reappear in pop culture today: Charles Chips tins and fruit crate labels.
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(Top to bottom): The iconic Charles Chips tin, an old shot of a Charles Chips truck and driver (note the two types of tins)
(Top to bottom): Original wooden fruit crates with labels (later replaced by corugated cardboard to lessen the fruit being bruised), the Dominator, Up North and SunSmile labels
Charles Chips
Wikipedia article
Charles Chips company website
Fruit Crate Labels
“Vintage fruit crate labels reveal agricultural history and art of Pacific Northwest” (Oregon Public Broadcasting article)
Buy some labels from The Crate Label
“A Collection of Vintage Fruit Crate Labels Offers a Voluptuous Vision of the Sunshine State” (Open Culture article)