the-efaf: questionableadvice: ~ The Black Cat Magazine, December 1899via internet archive“I drink POSTUM food coffee.” You should read about Postum (if you don’t know about it already), the wiki article is remarkably interesting for something as simple as a foodstuff. Ah, the good old days when you could make ridiculous advertising claims such as “coffee makes people go blind!”.

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~ The Black Cat Magazine, December 1899
via internet archive

“I drink POSTUM food coffee.”

You should read about Postum (if you don’t know about it already), the wiki article is remarkably interesting for something as simple as a foodstuff. Ah, the good old days when you could make ridiculous advertising claims such as “coffee makes people go blind!”.

posted : Saturday, December 31st, 2011

tags : advertisment reblog

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