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Ah, yes. The time before the FDA and USDA, where the food industry was famous for being easy to distinguish the safe options from the unsafe options…
by ncallaway 3y ago
Ah, yes. The time before the FDA and USDA, where the food industry was famous for being easy to distinguish the safe options from the unsafe options…
- wombatpm 3y agoJust try and differentiate snake oil (a petroleum distillate like baby oil) because no one likes a dry flaky snake and snake oil (from the first pressings of Tibetan mountain snakes) used in Dr MacGillacutty’s Genuine Snake Oil Restorative Tonic that cures gout, athlete’s foot, constipation, rickets, baldness, and 20 other diseases.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoYou write it sarcastically but this actually was why canned food became so popular, at the beginning stages it was practically a guarantee of the brand being as close to actually safe as possible. There was no regulation that food manufacturers had to use sanitary canned containers, it was almost purely market forces that spurred the adoption. Of course once the canning technology became cheap enough, even low quality brands could afford to can everything, so it stopped becoming a reliable differentiator. But that was decades later.