I see the ads on YouTube now with a lovable old timer retiring from their little craft store and having a last national sale. The woman closing her jewelry was so lovely, I wanted to marry her. Then I saw another one where a Grandpa was closing his leather goods shop. Hmm, it’s all bullshit!
Ok but consider this: you live in a world where there’s arsenic and or lead in everything. The paint, the air, the flour. Maybe grape nuts just had less arsenic and lead.
They were part of the health woo of the day. That's where breakfast cereals as a concept originated.
There wasn't any food safety back then, so no guarantee of lead, etc., not being in the cereals too.
Potassium.
Who knows? But considering that the average person's diet was often pretty deficient in various nutrients (due to a lot of things, like availability, cost, and the fact that there wasn't a lot of variety to choose from), it might not have been 100% bullshit.
But it probably was.
in their defense i think the idea was if you had something for breakfast that wasnt a pile of ham you would feel cooler because you werent experiencing a cardiac event
Why does this read like it was written today, though? It's very meme like.
Grape-nuts: supply it sounds like some kind of brainrot slang the zoomers are going around saying.
I didn't know just words could be that disorienting, that's awful.
Like this trendy art type clocks that have all random sized numbers for arty effect, can't actually read the time and have to triple focus of the hands. Defeating the purpose of a clock in public, but anyhoo.
The spirit of all mankind lives in you. Within you you carry the epigenetic fury that allowed your ancestors to meet every challenge, and that shall allow your descendants to achieve UNIMAGINABLE FEATS. You shall bend the world to your will!
Which is why you should SMOKE A FUCKIN MARLBORO
Ah I was hoping it was like a full paragraph digression about how everybody fantasizes about changing their gender in an ad for soap flakes or whatever
I have a soft spot for those turn of the century cartoons complaining about how hectic and fast paced and covered in advertising everything is now - modernity really did arrive all at once huh
Went to the museum of London Transport and had to wonder how many times the museum found a perfect old photo from the 20s or 30s of a gorgeous period bus, but couldn't use it because of an INCREDIBLY racist advert on a billboard in the background.
the bizarre legacy of a bunch of 19th century American men who would feed whatever random agricultural byproducts were to hand into a coffee grinder and decide that eating the result kind of gave you superpowers
Hey! This has been a thing since ancient times. You get some stuff, you grind it all together, bam! You’ve got pesto, salsa verde, salsa roja. Slap some roasted meat in whatever bread or bread analogue and paste it with the sauce and you’ve got tacos effectively.
"ends in a demand" is what marketing folks call a "call to action* and it's a pretty popular way to end an ad. "Call now", "go to our website for details" etc
This is fun. Whenever we would go to the library when I was a teenager, I'd look at the old newspapers. I liked looking at what was advertised and how.
Few people know that Gwen Stefani plagiarized her hit song's refrain about bananas from a turn-of-the-century advertisement by United Fruit that said, quote, "This Rubbish Be Grapes, G-R-A-P-E-S!"
Call me weird, call me old fashioned but I really liked Grape Nuts back in the day. Of course they were better after soaking up the milk, otherwise they were like eating kitty litter.
I can't help but hear this in my mind as a different voice/volume for each font - 'You can feel' *declaims boldly* 'ten percent cooler' *regains composure* 'than the thermometer' *mumbles non-committally* 'by using proper food' *yelling hysterically* 'GRAPE NUTS' *sotto voce, in parting* 'supply it'
okay wait, I don't think that's a demand, I think it's saying that grape nuts supply being 10% cooler, but the type doesn't make sense in a modern context.
You are correct, and it matters less in the digital world. The font would be the specific style (bold, black italic, etc), but also if there are different optical sizes, then the font would be the specific style IN A SPECIFIC SIZE. If there are no different optical sizes, font = style. I THINK.
Pretty much any file ending in ttf these days. Had a Compuwriter II in my living room for a few years, font for it was a 5 foot strip of film with 4 styles on it. The Varityper it replaced was like sort of a mechanical ibm selectric with these half moon shaped things with one style each.
No, a font is a rendering of a typeface with a particular weight, style, and size. A typeface represents the family of fonts.
This has driven typographers mad since Day 1.
Nevertheless, the original post states four different "typesettings" which we may assume is used in an unlearned way as a surrogate for fonts. This is neither correct in name nor in deed.
Grape Nuts -- which turn into a new life form if not immediately rinsed from any container-- always reminds me of Euell Gibbons: "Many parts of the pine tree are edible." I always thought he died of an ulcer. He didn't.
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You want me to fucking die?
There wasn't any food safety back then, so no guarantee of lead, etc., not being in the cereals too.
Whatever THAT was supposed to be
(Sorry, Grape=nuts, of course)
Who knows? But considering that the average person's diet was often pretty deficient in various nutrients (due to a lot of things, like availability, cost, and the fact that there wasn't a lot of variety to choose from), it might not have been 100% bullshit.
But it probably was.
Old ads were only 10% cooler.
The ads in those were this special kind of unhinged.
Grape-nuts: supply it sounds like some kind of brainrot slang the zoomers are going around saying.
Popes is mayors
Grapes is nuts
Like this trendy art type clocks that have all random sized numbers for arty effect, can't actually read the time and have to triple focus of the hands. Defeating the purpose of a clock in public, but anyhoo.
Which is why you should SMOKE A FUCKIN MARLBORO
And the article is here: https://queergoldfields.au/victorian-collection/f/bal-pawnbrokers-picture-shows-jack-wilsons-gender-adventure
This has "cars cars cars cars there are so many cars" energy
"I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion, Grape = Nuts."
"GRAPE = NUTS
DO NOT ANGER THEM"
They're taking about making you poop.
There’s nothing in the stuff remotely resembling “grapes” or “nuts” so WHY~
grape?
nuts??
It's "*yelling hysterically* GRAPE EQUALS NUTS".
GRAPE=NUTS
that’s a straight up lie
What else didn't we know about?
Granola=Oats(Honey)²
2(Egg+Toast)=(Coffee+Cream+2Sugar)-Cigarette
This has driven typographers mad since Day 1.
Just saying.
This ad looks like grape=nuts. And that math ain't mathing for me!
(A lot of old ads I’ve seen seem to target local stores instead of the end customer)
(haha- I'm in marketing and make a lot of jokes about how sales thinks design = fonts)
"I'm Wilford Brimley. Eat your goddamned oatmeal or die."