Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You know kool-aid is pure…

Wut?

[–] ChicoSuave 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] skyspydude1 15 points 2 months ago

Read Sinclair's "The Jungle" and you'll definitely understand the obsession with purity. It was about as regulated as "100% natural" is these days, but at least meant that your "100% pure beef" was less likely to be cut with sawdust or rat meat or something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 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] 15 points 2 months ago

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