Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> In article . net>,
> "Gregory Morrow"
> <gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote:
>
> > All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
> > from the gross to the sublime:
> >
> > http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm
>
> Fun pictures, Greg. Thanks. One on the fifth page brought to mind a
> friend who once did the food styling for a Land O'Lakes butter photo
> shoot. She had something like 20 packages of frozen peas from which to
> select the *perfect* ones for the pictures. One by one,


IIRC peas were one of the first and most popular vegetables to be
available frozen; they also had a certain photogenic elan which lent
themselves to food advertising during this era...and natcherly they
were ALWAYS shown with a big pat of yellow butter.

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Best
Greg