The thread where we confess to being suckered by clever product design and marketing

er http://candyaddict.com/blog/candy_pictures/chocolate_dipped_altoids.jpg

when i was twelve my friend and i saved up and bought the superslicer using his mother's credit card.

it was awesome but neither of us cooked very much. we used the juicer sometimes though. for lemonade.

actually, i was younger than that come to think of it. either way.

http://www.cyberbrands.com/pub/images/super_slicer_med.jpg

I tried smoking Lucky Strikes for a little while just because I love the package/logo.

i started smoking full start because of the logo! well, i bought them from a vending machine on the street in japan, and a few weeks later actually smoked one.

i cant deal with those altoids as they are not chewy, i don't know what to do with them. biting down on an altoid is gross

who ever came up with k-y "intrigue"

someone without a vagina, probably

my first cigarette ever = lucky strike unflitered.

Not the worst beer ever but still far from God. I love the bottle.

http://www.adclassix.com/images62carlingblacklabel.jpg

chocolate-covered altoid are amazing enticing.

amazingly

http://www.taquitos.net/dbimages-gallery13/MilkChug-CM-LF.jpg

I remember when the CHUG line came out, I thought "this is a pathetic marketing scheme", and I think I still wound up buying more milk/chocolate milk to drink once it was introduced than I had before.

http://i.cnn.net/money/popups/2006/specials/blueribbon/gal_apple.gif

I buy and use this all the time but it has no effect on my taste buds.

http://www.foodservicedirect.com/productimages/OT262196S.jpg

C.H.U.G.

chugalug chugalug

makes u wanna holler hiiiiiiiiiiiidey ho

feed ur tummy on the go

chugalug chugalug

cool milk in a real cool jug

he's a chugaluggin son of a gun

feed ur tummy on the run

chugalug chugalug

if you put a gun to my head right now i could not tell you my own cell phone number

moonship madly otm.

http://www.grandeharvestwines.com/images/products/spirits/bulliet-lg.jpg

It's so wonderfully old-timey. Boozewise, it seems alright.

ok, I'm heading to the store for a bottle of that ASAP

nothing suckered about buying bulleit my friends

Wow is that what Worcester sauce looks like in the US?? There's none of that paper bag shit here.

My worst job ever was tightening the lids on Worcester sauce bottles at Lea & Perrins, blistered my hands to fuck.

you know whats really fucking good is that dove dark chocolate milk which looks exactly like the runs

75% of the appeal of lea and perrins is the paper bag shit. it gives it class.

I worked at Lea & Perrins for a week while they changed from glass to plastic bottles, the machine wouldn't tighten the lids properly so we had to tighten them by hand. Put me off the stuff for about 2 years, the whole place stank of it.

I think you could take anything that hadn't been covered in fine dark chocolate before and cover it in fine dark chocolate and I'd be enticed to try it.

If Apple made, say, watches and clock radios and lamps, I might buy them.

So weird to see someone mention Carling Black Label on this thread, although we don't have those bottles!

if apple made an iBazooka i would buy it

in high school:

http://www.thewhiskystore.de/usa/bernheim/rebelye07a_2.jpg

oh and i used to drink this cheap whiskey in high school called Wilson's simply because their catch phrase was "That's all!". i thought it was kinda self-defeating and that fit my mood at the time.

xpost did you cry MORE! MORE! MORE!?

and i very seriously thought about getting the mickey's mascot as a tattoo:

http://www.sudsgear.com/ProductImages/mky-mickeys/mickeys_BM-l.jpg

i just thought it was a bizarre slogan. kinda like putting "sorry!" on your bottle. "we wish you could afford better whiskey too! good luck!"

i think the rolling stones drank nothing but rebel yell for awhile. cuz they are down home.

nice neon:

http://www.beercollections.com/Breweries/Wisconsin/Images/IM495190.gif

Haha that reminds me of how we all used to say "das vodenya" (sp, wtf) before drinking, however it is you say "goodbye" in russian.

I'm a sucker for booze labels. When I'm out I always choose Hendricks gin:

http://www.beveragewarehouse.com/search/thumbnail.php?im=/home/beverage/public_html/images/products/3528.jpg

I buy and use this all the time but it has no effect on my taste buds.

[pic of lea and perrins bottle]

Maybe you need a taste bud transplant. Besides its being flavorful, you should at least get a kick in the taste buds from the sodium bomb at the very least!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldC7FQiUJ6s

Tiny banner ads attached to flies generate buzz

wtf?

also, there's a huge picture of david foster wallace on the wall during part of that.

Not "suckered" because what's inside is good, but:

http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/stevecla01/WindowsLiveWriter/The.comTheLeadingPackageDesignWebsiteThe_CE80/wine_2.jpg

http://www.trulyfinewine.com/assets/images/pax_majik_full_lr.jpg

And:
http://www.majestic.co.uk/Assets/Majestic/Client/products/1/8/8/18870_p.jpg

Knowing nothing about wine I am the sad puppet of clever label designers.

http://anatifero.us/roosterwine.png

Bought because of the Mexico-style question marks

http://thedukedoctrine.com/images/basilhaydens.jpg

ah woops

http://thedukedoctrine.com/images/basilhaydens.jpg

lol HUGE sorry

Oh man that stuff is tasty action. All their boozes are design-sucker designed.

http://www.dosjefescigarbar.com/images/bourbonTasting.jpg

tho i'm can't say i've been suckered - it might be a really good bourbon (i haven't opened it yet). but i bought it over other whiskeys that, based on a bunch of reviews, i would probably like more than BH.

yea seriously - i love all those labels

My friend made a bread pudding last Christmas with sauce made w/Basil Hayden's...oh my fucking nom.

For this thread, it's perfect to see all that detail up-close.

And Giant 47-Pound Rooster, yes!

Also, just about anything coming out of Spain today:
http://www.volunteer.blogs.com/winewaves/images/naia_rueda_verdejo_2005.jpg
http://volunteer.blogs.com/winewaves/images/wrongo.jpg

I'm a fan of a bunch of words in size 6 typeface covering the label

http://caskstrength.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/angostura-bottle.jpghttp://www.skrewtips.com/img/drbronner.jpg

Wrongo Dongo :O

haha yes i love bronner's labels

they are, in fact, the awesome

yeah i will stan for dr bronner 4eva

That Basil Hayden's bottle is ridiculous. I know I'm looking at a bottle of bourbon, but all I see is Appalachian highlander wearing a paper bag with a Dolce Gabbana belt.

That's a good look!

btw I told you guys I went to college with the president of Dr Bronner, right

http://www.drbronner.com/punk_rock_soap_opera.html

super-righteous dude

loved this as a kid. the chips were kinda inferior

http://www.constructionjunction.org/files/image/products/1220022906-P1010666.JPG

booze and soap so own this thread

awwww i <3 cool alcohol labels. mark u are going to enjoy the basil hayden's i bet btw

haha cool

bh is really good! it is super $ here (more than ny) so i never buy it.

seriously tho there are so many bottles of booze i could post to this thread

<3 u brownie, one of my greatest memories of childhood was digging into the Charles Chips cans at my grandparents'. I also kept the cans to store, like, army men and marbles and stuff in. Marbles in a big metal Charles Chips can = fun for all ages.

I have a long obsession with Absolut, not because I think it's particularly good, but because I love their bottles so much.

(oh also PEPPAR + TONIC but that's my own weird thing)

Although LOL at $20.00 price tag, you can still buy news ones at Cracker Barrel restaurants.

http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/2009/03/bulleit-bourbon.jpg

the bulleit bottle is very comfortable.

this is a great techmological braekthroguh for when you're so drunk you can no longer sense temperatures, I confess nothing tho

http://i34.tinypic.com/9bg3zb.jpg

whoah that bulleit bottle

http://www.dust-digital.com/photos/880226000011.jpg

Bulleit is really, really cute in hotel bottle form. When it first came out they were selling the teeny bottles for 50¢ at the liquor store. Sooo cuet.

http://www.hitimewine.net/istarimages/p/t/pt-165520!1104.jpg

It tastes great too.

this week I have bought some wine just because it had a penguin on the bottle (the only bottle neither of us have been able to make it through a single glass of, went down the sink, but on the back it said that like 0.1% of the price went to a penguin charity, so that's ok then, uhh) and some exxxpensive white chocolate because it had a white tiger on the packaging (was v. delicious but at twice the price of even the other fancy gourmet organic snob-chocolate I should not be allowed to buy it again)

market: targeted

I bought this for a friend's housewarming party because of the design and because I don't know anything about wines

http://www.enoteca.co.jp/online-shop2/wine_img/1088101223A7.jpg

it looks much cooler in real life because the bottle looks glossy black so you feel like you should belong to the nihilist toe cutting club when you buy it

Gukbe's first post on this thread is lol, DRINK MORE OVALTINE

http://www.memorybits.co.uk/blogbits/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/iamakey-300x300.jpg

I bought this even tho its twice the price of a regular usb key, because it looks cool (and because I keep on breaking/losing my usb keys)

a friend brought this to my dinner party once because she liked the bottle and it's turned otu to be a favorite reasonably priced dry riesling

http://volunteer.blogs.com/winewaves/images/bd-riesling.jpg