10 Foods from the 99¢ Only Store That Are Way Ahead of the Curve on That Whole “Retro Package Design” Thing

These Lil’ Dutch Maid Cookies look like they’re from…the late 1950s.
Proof of Its Modernity: Spanish translation on front of package.
Where You’d Expect to See It: In one of two small, pink metal cupboards in the tiny kitchen in that apartment Dad moved into after the divorce.
Buy It Because: Design on wafer part of cookie looks like a Celtic knot. That’s as good a reason as any.
• According to their website, this cookie company was established not at some point around the middle of the last century – the fifties, forties, or earlier – but in 1992! The package definitely has a much older look to it.

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Posted by Ted on June 1, 2011, 9:00 AM.