Imagine if everything was in the same packaging and stuff just said the name of what it was on it.

im sorry to do this but this is literally an XKCD bit 😔

You tankies can pry my 20 flavors of Monster Energy from my cold, overcaffeinated hands. Yeah, it WILL KILL me but that’s capitalism, baby.

This reminds me when Mexican chuds were crying that new state owned chocolate will turn us into cuba (i wish)

Under socialism the workers running the factories will get to decide what their packaging looks like and the brands will all be extremely regional and quirky instead of hegemonic and focus group tested.

like they just watched Repo Man for the first time

My college town had a tiny plaza of shops. I'm not sure how it happened but it was just:

"Barber Shop", "Shoe Store", and "Coffee House"

I fucking loved it and I shopped at them often. Fuck branding.

For accessibility I'd also put a picture of the food in case people can't read too good.

Also, not everything needs to be individually wrapped in select portions like this. All the plastic and shit we waste controlling how much of a thing people can have at once is so wasteful

Why do people assume that just because we aren't doing branding the packages need to be plain? You could have artwork on them, and color code them so you know what's what easily. Like green for snack items and have the packing be various green paletted artworks You could put PSAs on them too. Or healthy recipes that use the items to give people ideas for what to do with them. Not in the "buy our brand of shit to make this random recipe we made using all our products" way, but just like actual healthy recipes that are simple and cheap to make.

The packaging of products has so much potential if it wasn't being wasted on branding. You could do kids items that have both cute animals and fun facts. Like stuff they need to know for school.

Portion suggestons would be nice too. Instead of just a nutrition facts panel on a box of cookies you could literally say like "3 per day max is best" to remind people not to eat too many snack foods. You could even print the full recipe of pre-made items on the package and encourage people to try making it themselves sometimes. To reduce the need for mass produced products.

Oreosé

When I was young the generic aisle at the local grocery consisted of packaged items with the name of the item on the package.

Bread. Peanut butter. Strawberry Jam. Elbow macaroni. Beer. Etc. Let us return to monke.

When half of the stuff comes out of the same factory but is just packaged differently anyway. Capitalist innovation, folks

PRODUCTS made from INGREDIENTS that give you CANCER

Oreo wine

OREO IS NOT A FLAVOR

It doesn't even taste like chocolate, it is just dark brown wafer with corn syrup solids

It has a distinctive shape, texture, and color contrast, but no discernible flavor. That makes it the platonic ideal of American food.

Ever since I found out that the reason there are so many kinds of Oreos, for example, was because it's a tactic to take up as much shelf space as possible from their competitors, I've been extra dismissive of this argument.

They're literally just describing Trader Joe's

NOOOO!!!! I MUST CONSUME [brand]!!!!!

This guy never heard of store brands?

it's why i go to aldi