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.
Who remember the “NoName” floppies and cd roms?
Quite awful quality IIRC.
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.
This is a thingwow, no LOST references here?
I was thinking of all of the stores in the movie Host.
My wife texted me the above image earlier and, I kid you not, this is my reply:
Dharma branded Peanut Butter 😋
Literally watching Lost right now 😂
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.
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.
And no frills sells mainly that brand
Loblaws does. That includes no frills, Zehrs, Real Canadian super store, Dominion, Maxi, T & T, Wholesale Club and many others.
You would be hard pressed not to find no name. YAY 3 WAY MONOPOLY ON FOOD!
Bob Loblaw?
Oh I love his law blog
the man Lobs Law Bombs
xkcd did it in 2011 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/993:_Brand_Identity
In Gilead they called it “Fish & Loaves”:
What is this, the Oldest House?
YES A CONTROL REFERENCE IN THE WILD HELL YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Are you more excited for the show or the game sequel?
Well, this is the first time I’m hearing about a Control show. That being said… I have little hope for it. I feel like somethings should just remain games. Not everything needs to be translated to another form of media and I don’t see Control being able to pull off the same level of awe and wonder in a show that it does in a game.
Now the sequel…
hnng.
It always reminded me of the wierder bits of twin peaks or something anyway.
I sill never got past that crazy professor lady running around in some big cave thing firing grenades everywhere , so i dont need a sequel until i get more skills.
The track record is getting good, though. Fallout and Last of Us nailed it. Cyberpunk and Arcane were pretty awesome, too. Maybe they’ve figured out the formula
Last of Us, Cyberpunk and Arcane are nowhere on my radar of shows that I plan on ever watching so I can’t speak to those. Don’t have anything against it. Just doesn’t spark any interest. Fallout I’ve been meaning to watch for a while but just keep autistically shrinking back into Star Trek lmao
You should watch Arcane for a lot of reason, but just the visual and art is enough in itself.
At the very least watch Cyberpunk. It’s magnificent. But I think it helps that the setting and themes have never just been gaming-centric and the show isn’t actually based on the most recent game.
Thanks of reminding me of the awesome premise of the Oldest House.
“Better not bring any unnecessary cultural artifacts into the reality shifting place, so that whatever is in here doesn’t have anything to latch onto.”
Cut to me bringing in a copy of budokai 3 so the oldest house makes goku real.
two spots for pistachios is positively scrumptious
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
would anyone actually like that? how am i supposed to know anything about a product if it’s just called “chips”?? what’s the flavor, texture, what does it look like?
maybe partially transparent packaging would be nice, though
Australia used to have a store called no frills
It was called Franklins, No Frills was their home brand
Hmmm, I would buy the shit out of that aesthetic.
Yeah, no one could like that. Not like there is a whole set of us that basically live off the stuff or anything…
I am unreasonably upset by the chips bag having a picture and a splash of non-yellow on it.
The US doesn’t seem to do this much to my irritation when I visited but pretty much every other country the crisps are colour-coded for flavour although there seems to be no international consistency on this.
For example at least in the UK blue means cheese and onion (and therefore disgusting), red means salt, green means salt and vinegar, and pink means prawn cocktail.
Yeah, that one is odd. Some have a band of colour though. I think its when there are flavours.
Australia has black & gold but it is a generic brand, mixed in with all the others.
We former colonies know how to make a sexy looking store brand.
I like the Canadian one better. If its going to be simple then be simple.
I’m assuming the contents are all unremarkable commodities.Interestingly I (and many others) have noticed that the no name (and other store brands) are often better then the “name” brand stuff.
For example I would say KD is worse then store brand, and the store brand crackers are waaaay better then the name brand now (they seem to now over toast them).
Perhaps they’re not as up to date with their enshitification.
Maybe, I also talked years ago to some people higher up at loblaws (at their regional HQ for work) and asked about no name and presidents choice and I was lead to believe a lot of work goes into making the product good. They also talked about how they make more on the store brand and see this as an opportunity to push more people to their stuff. I don’t think anyone really likes the big brands these days.
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!
When I was poor and unemployed in the distant past, I sustained myself on Tesco value pasta at 13p a bag.
I remember their orange juice being so thick and rich for something like 30p per litre. The richer parents bought the brands with pulp
I still stand by their Finest range of orange juice with pulp. Everyone else’s is shit.
Nah, I loved gulping that battery acid
Canada still has No Frills, at least In British Columbia. They essentially get the leftovers the big-box stores don’t want.
No Frills in Ontario too
The life of a repo man is always intense.
There’s a beer made in New Zealand, by garage project, called Beer. The cans look very similar to those products.
Pretty sure we’ve got it in USA too, I think I’ve seen billboards for it recently.
