Matchbox label of the day: Other companies promote plants as well....
Here is two examples of promotion for plants, which, to say the least affects the daily life of man. Some people don´t want to be without the tobacco and some don´t want to loose sugar which I connect with melatti (True, LS?).
As mom sings sometimes...
"Sugar in the morning, sugar in the evening, sugar varenda dag, tänk att det finns så mycket sugar i USA!"
(translated end... sugar every day, can you believe how much sugar there is in USA!)
Now I only need a matchbox label with cacao, that's also a good plant. Not that I say that I think tobacco is great.
8 comments:
Hmm, Melatti? That is not a familiar name. Some people apparently call a jasmine species melatti, but it is not a name of sugar. I think you are thinking of molasses, which is a different thing. The plant on the label doesn't look like Jasminum either, so this is a mystery plant for now. It looks more like a sunflower plant (Asteraceae).
I can think of another plant that is "fairly" popular around the world, often consumed in combination with sugar and tobacco...
ehhh...cannabis? I don´t think they have them on stamps or matchbox labels but maybe LS can find some with the magnifying search glass of hers!
I though about molasses, true so the plant was wrong, but the saying is correct though, "tänk vad mycket sugar det finns i USA"!
No, I was thinking of coffee. About 7 billion kg, more than one kg per person in the world, is produced each year. Makes it pretty popular, right?
Ahhh, I see (stupid me!!!)
Why did I do that connection? Of course it´s coffee!
I do believe coffee can be found on matchbox labels!
Note how the MADE IN SWEDEN is so prominent on these boxes. It is the opposite to the hidden tiny label these days that says Made in China. Being made in Sweden is (was) cause for bragging and marketing, whereas Chinese manufacturing tries to hide the origin of their products.
I am trying to remember a bad product made in Sweden and can't. Can you think of any? Food products don't count. But maybe nearly nothing is made in Sweden anymore, except handmade arts, crafts and designs, like our best butter spreader knives. Are they still making Arboga milling machines, Husqvarna mopeds, and Edet toilet paper in Sweden?
Arboga, Edlund, Abene, Storebro, and Sajo are are still active in machine tools, and that is only the ones I can think of, I'm sure there are more. I'm fairly certain that the machines are in fact built in Sweden. Sandvik is one of the major forces in cutting tools in the machine tool industry, though many of the Sandvik cutters I have seen are made in Israel! Made in USA used to mean something to me...not so much anymore.
LS, I can tell you that your panncake- frying pan is made in Skeppshult Sweden. You can read more here, http://www.skeppshult.com/sv/info/history/
(For PP and other english-speaking visitors, you can click at the english flag in the righthand corner.) Look at some nice picture from the production.)
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