Help me out here...
Jun. 5th, 2003 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaI 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.
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.
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Re: (white) bread is good for you
Date: 2003-06-05 08:03 am (UTC)But it is good for you - in comparative studies against "nothing" it was shown to keep you alive for weeks or months longer. In comparative studies with "lard and chocolate" it was shown to help prevent excessive calorie intake. It's also a gateway food to cheese sandwiches, and everyone knows cheese is great.