Elizabeth Goodspeed on the delicate art of nostalgia in branding
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It's not even clear how that package is used. Do you invert it and snap open the brown plastic flap, or what? Was that just concept art, or did they actually sell that.
What they seem to be selling now is a minor mod to the 19th century design.[1]
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Lyles-Squeezy-Golden-Syrup-325g/dp/B0...
My dad used to have dozens of the tins in his shed, each holding a collection of screws, washers, resistors, capacitors, bolts etc 'that will come in useful one day'. I still can't see the tins without thinking of his re-use collections. That's my biggest gripe with the new container: it's a single-use throw-away plastic thing. The traditionalist press in the UK is also upset by the new image: stylised logo, compared with a 'proper' picture of a sleepy lion surrounded by bees.
The tins keep the old branding, for now.
Only the squeezies get the new branding.
I don't get that they went from a serif to a lifeless san-serif font on a vintage brand like Lyle's, though. It loses a lot of soul with that transition and wasn't necessary.
What do you expect, she showed it to her followers and they hated her for it. It's also on a site that introduces the owner by name every post.
The packaging (tin versus squeezy bottle) isn't changing — they already sell both.
Only the labels are changing, and they're keeping the tin (specifically) unchanged: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68347249
The entire premise of the scene is a lie. The family life Don portrays in the photos is an illusion that is rapidly falling apart at that point in the show. That’s kind of the major theme of MM - the illusions of advertising and of life in general.
I’m fairly certain that the writers were well aware of the word’s etymology, but wrote Don’s dialogue to emphasize the artificiality of it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/paintings-british-countryside-evo...
Or, you know, maybe sales dropped, because inflation caused by Russia invading Ukraine hit and people spent less money on more expensive foods like Bahlsen cookies.