Sometimes, Looks DO Matter
Yes, we’re suckers for packaging. Didn’t you know?
But seriously, don’t you feel better when your bathroom is stocked with great products whose labels are a slick combo of saturated color and vintage, geometric fonts? Or pale, faded colors and scripty fonts? Whatever your pleasure, it makes a difference (to a lot of us, anyway).
Same goes for our pantries. Below, some of our favorites in food packaging—specifically in red and yellow, those colors that scream “buy me!”—that can be found in your average grocery store.
Not only are Martin’s Potato Rolls the best-ever for burgers, chicken salad sandwiches—anything, basically, that you want to put between two slices of dough—but those roses are so damn cheery.
Great tuna, great tin.
When all those cherries have been eaten (meaning all those Manhattans have been imbibed), don’t you want to use this to hold your cooking utensils?
Primary colors for the win! Also, Old Bay rules. (This writer is from Maryland, but non-crab aficionados agree.)
So Café Bustelo is not the best coffee. But look at that font treatment! If it’s not meant for our coffee machines, maybe we’ll just line one wall of our kitchens with the tightly-packed bricks of the stuff. Bonus points for the scratch-and-sniff wake-me-up factor.
See? Sometimes, looks are everything.
