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

These Michigan Made Red Tart Pitted Cherries look like they’re from…the mid 1970s.
Proof of Its Modernity: Stackable can bottom.
Where You’d Expect to See It: Used in a recipe on Celebrity Cooks with Bruno Gerussi, a Canadian show you’ve never heard of and I’ve never seen. But I speak for us both when I say, based on that opening alone, we’d watch every episode if they released it on DVD.
Buy It Because: You’re going to need it four pages from now.
• Could the label be any redder?! A photo of a huge hunk of pie, oozing a seemingly impossible amount of cherries, superimposed over another photo of cherries.  I think this is wonderful – just wonderful, and now, so do you!

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