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I just went up to the staffroom for my morning tea and evil-on-toast, and was unexpectedly scared by the bread's packaging.

Robertson's thin-sliced white bread has on it a two colour logo, featuring a cheerfully-aspected stick-figure, and the motto "BREAD IS GOOD FOR YOU" in large, blocky letters.

This resonates in my brain with someone's post-apocalyptic futuristic vision, in which information is presented to the people in very simple, black-and-white terms... Can anyone tell me what the reference is ? Is it 1984 ?

Anyway, it scared me. I had the brown bread, which made no such claims.

Re: (white) bread is good for you

Date: 2003-06-05 02:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Can you mention it quietly ? I don't think I've heard this one :)

Re: (white) bread is good for you

Date: 2003-06-05 07:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com
There used to be a Bran Flakes ad on TV which went:

"They're tasty, tasty, very very tasty, they're very tasty !"

...the canonical example of the genre !

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