What is this, the Oldest House?
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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.
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
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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."
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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.
Mandatory fuck Loblaws and Weston Galen. Fuck Jim Pattison too while we're at it.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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.
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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
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
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There's a beer made in New Zealand, by garage project, called Beer. The cans look very similar to those products.
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Sweden had Konsum/Domus and Blåvitt
In Germany the leading drugstore chain does this with their brand aimed at Men. (See link).
https://www.dm.de/marken/seinz
They also noticed that they don't like walking through the whole store, so they put every product for men in one aisle directly next to the checkout.
Don't forget "Ja!" https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.zFtYRskRiRhbki-Tbz2qgAAAAA&pid=Api
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I am still waiting for an online store that can sell me a no brand/ no label high quality tshirt in any of the basic colors and cuts and fabrics
Probably need to post your country/region. Many of the better online stores are regional.
For Germany, grundstoff.net has a good selection. They seem to ship all over Europe, but the webpage is only German...
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We had this in France in the 80s when big supermarkets started to open.
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.
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this looks exactly like all products in the movie repo man.
Repo man knows the code
Or in real life, today if you want
This is a thing
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
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.
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Norwegian and Danish grocery store "Rema 1000" has their own store brand that's very minimalistic: https://shop.rema1000.dk/?filters=rema1000
It's just the text saying what it is and a little picture and not much else.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is pretty normal outside USA.
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If you see stuff like that you're either at a military commissary, or No Frills.
Kwik Save used to do No Frills…is it still a thing somewhere?
tfw when no speak english (can't tell what those are)
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