Torontoist » heinz http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sun, 27 May 2012 03:02:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Vintage Toronto Ads: The League of Rations

Source: The Toronto Star, November 19, 1936. Isn’t it wonderful when four stereotypical figures can come together in perfect harmony thanks to a humble can of spaghetti? We never suspected that the finest spices from Asia lurked within our sloppy Saturday childhood lunch. Paying homage to the League of Nations might not have been the [...]

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Sometimes what passed for clever advertising in the past leaves us speechless. Note that today’s ad appeared seven years before Advertising Standards Canada came into being. The free guide offered in this ad was first published in 1944 and offered the following words of wisdom: Soup has long played a stellar part on the Canadian [...]

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