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The Green Giant logo hasn't always stood tall among advertising icons.
The first aired televised commercial, in 1953, terrorized lily livered youngsters. The spooky puppet stalked through the fertile valley chanting fe fi fo fum in a very Jack in the Beanstalk manner. The nightmare inducing commercial was quickly pulled. Here is the very youtubable niblet of horror. Watch at your own risk!
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The Jolly Green Giant loves Vintage Postcards
The Beatles like Vintage Postcards
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A sip of summer and culture can be had in demi-fraise form.
The drink recipe is simple. Mix a bit of strawberry syrup in with a light colored beer. The result is fresh, vibrant and ready to be tippled. This beverage should be coupled with sunshine, smiles, and the Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever.
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Sticky Strawberry Vintage Postcards
Does bathing in the juice of fresh strawberries sound sumptuously sticky? 
Madame Talien, who was a social figure during the French Revolution, kept her complexion radiant with this messy method of washing.
Twenty-two pounds of crushed strawberries made up the bathwater that went into her tub. Vive strawberry bath gel and vintage postcards!
She was arrested and jailed for being the wife of an aristocrat. She flirted her way out of the guillotine, divorced, and then became a champion for Liberalism. Strawberries saved her scented neck!
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Rubber Vintage Postcards that Bounce
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Charles Goodyear was a soccer and (vintage postcard:) fan extraordinaire. He built this ball in 1855 out of vulcanized rubber panels glued at the seams.
Prior to this, balls were made out of irregularly shaped pig's bladders. The behavior of the ball was very unpredictable when kicked. Soccer players were also plagued with uncontrollable pork chop cravings.
Goodyear never made tires! The company was named in his honor 4 decades after his death. Rubber goods were sticky and decomposed quickly. The tenacious Goodyear (while in debtors prison) tried to solve this problem.
He eventually spilled a bit of rubber onto a stove and noticed that the charred piece was cured perfectly. Vulcanized rubber was born. Soccer players can cheer for Goodyear!
Capricious Vintage Postcard Carrying Cats
Liege, Belgium 1879 - 37 plucky postal cats were employed to carry bundles of letters (and postcards) to nearby villages.
Editor to Marie: You have quite an active imagination. But this is ridiculous.
Marie to Editor. This is history! Go read the book!.
They were 'trained' to complete this harrowing task for saucers of cream. The experiment was short - lived.
Odor-able Vintage Postcards
Where are you, my little object of art? I am here to collect you.
Zee cabbage does not run away from zee corn-beef.
You are my peanut, I am your brittle!
You may call me Streetcar, because of my desire for you.
Pepe the Pew, the odor-able skunk, should have wooed Penelope through postal memorabilia. The way to a woman's heart is through vintage postcards ...or so the saying goes:)
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Spot's Sanctuary
Stephen Huneck is an eclectic folk artist from Vermont who welcomes all creeds and all breeds to his doggie chapel. After a near death experience, Stephen Huneck had a vision to build Spot's sanctuary.
The chapel's interior walls are plastered with posts from visitors who have lost a pet and want them to be remembered. These handwritten remembrances, photographs, and postcards create a very powerful statement.
Stinky Cheese Vintage Postcards - Part Deux
The ewe that provides the rich milk for Roquefort cheese comes of a race originally bred in Neolithic times. 
It is a remarkably silly-looking sheep with a little flat head, narrow shoulders, a shabby coat of wool. But it has huge udders that can produce 35 gallons of milk a season, up to 110 in prize specimens, and it is quite robust, resistant to the harsh climate.
Local shepherds will tell you that the shallowness of the soil—you can strike solid limestone about four inches down- adds a special richness to the taste of the milk, by limiting the animals' diet to delicate grass.
Roquefort will always cost more than other cheeses, if only because it is more expensive to milk 30 ewes than one cow in order to get an equivalent amount of milk. (These vintage postcard milk cans are filled with frothy warm ewe's milk).
But Roquefort folk insist their cheese is really an economical buy. Unlike Camembert, or Pont 1'Eveque, say, there is little waste, and no crust. Besides, the cheese itself is so rich and satisfying—ewe's milk being twice as rich in butterfat as cow's—that you don't need to eat so much of it.
If you are interested in photos from this region their is a great gal over at an American in Averyron. who has a daily photo blog:)
This article was written by:
1980 Robert Wernick
Smithsonian Magazine February 1982
It was just too nifty to change:)
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Who munched the first bit of bluey gooey Roquefort?
''One story favored by the local authorities is that a shepherd boy was one day loafing in a cool dark cave, about to eat a rustic lunch of bread and cheese, when he saw a shepherdess go by with her flock.
Dropping his lunch, he raced out after her. What with one thing and another, it was several days before he returned. To his amazement he found that the bread was a mass of green mold and his cheese was all streaked and mottled. Wisely he left the bread alone but ate the cheese. Finding it delicious he called in his friends, and soon every cave along the hillside had a cheese in it.
The news of this discovery spread over the trade routes of old Europe. When the Romans built the great highway, the Via Domitia, that linked the Pyrenees with Italy, it passed not far from Roquefort, and it became relatively easy to send the cheeses to the seacoast and then by coastal shipping to Rome. The Romans, it seems, fell in love with Roquefort. Like all the Mediterranean peoples down to our own time they were used to cheeses, most of which tended to be dry and hard. Roquefort, by contrast, was smooth and soft and tasty, and the Roman aristocrats were willing to pay high prices to have it on their tables.
The Emperor Charlemagne, it is said, used to have a packtrain of mules bring Roquefort to his court at Aix-la-Chapelle every Christmas. Rich landed proprietors even received payments in cheese from local peasants!''
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Louis XIV Puts His Best Shoe Forward
Louis XIV, a short man, liked both his high heels and women red hot! Scarlet was his shoe color of choice. He would have liked vintage postcards too!
The insects dusting these Mexican cactus pads are called cochineal.They're a dusty grey color, until they're squashed -- and then their plump abdomens burst with rich, red liquid. It was used for dying the royal shoes and clothing of the Sun King. This exotic import was highly prized and expensive!
The Sun King's footwear fanaticism drove him to ban everyone except the nobility from wearing high heels. But nobody was allowed to have higher heels than the king! He also had miniature battle scenes painted upon these leather status wielders.
Heel wearing was only curbed by the French Revolution in 1789. It became a disdained sign of nobility. Many silver shoe buckles were "donated" to the Revolutionary cause as their noble owners lost their heads at the guillotine.
I would much rather wear my scruffy converse. There is no need for head rolling here!
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Let's Roll in a Pilain Vintage Car
The French car company Rolland Pilain toots it own horn with the slogan, 'An Ace of a car - The car for aces.' ( L'As des voiture - La voiture des as) 
Emile Pilain built the French Ford T's in the early 1900's. This 25 year old from Lyon loved to test, tinker, and build his dreams.
The most popular 'Ferrari' of this era was the Rolland Pilain C23 (shown on the above vintage postcard). This car motored around after it's launch in 1905. About 10,000 were produced! A few still exist and cruise around French motorways. I would like to be in the driver's seat!
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Flutterby Vintage Postcards
This fluttering vintage postcard girl moves me to listen to the Butterfly Lovers violin concerto.
This modern music piece, composed in 1958, is a symbolic retelling of a Chinese legend. The tragic story is very Romeo and Julietesque.
The legend involves the star - crossed lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, who turn into butterflies after death. It is a beloved classic of Chinese music. It is also very youtubeable. This orchestra masterpiece is calming and surprisingly familiar.
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Spam Wins Wars
Spam was a life saving tinned meat staple during World War II. 
It was the ideal combat ration because it could be shipped easily and didn't have an expiration date! Fresh meat was just difficult to get to soldiers at the front. By mid-war, Hormel was producing 15 million cans of Spam for the troops each week. The soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, raised the flag, and then ate Spam.
In the United States beef was rationed and expensive. You had to present you war time coupon book in order to get a slab. Spam didn't fall under the same restrictions. It was tooted as a miracle meat. 'Eaten cold or hot, Spam hits the spot!'
Here is the gelatinous Monty Python Spam Sketch! It's Spamtastic!
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Pushing the Wallpaper Envelope in a pre Vintage Postcard Era
Southerners, during the American Civil War (1861-1865), were virtually paperless as the wars end approached. Paper mills were Northern enterprises which the South didn't have access to. Union Navy blockades barred their passage to foreign markets as well. 
As a result every scrap of paper was used and then reused.
Absolutely any bit of paper with sufficient blank space was suddenly stationary. Books were stripped of their title pages to supply letter paper and material for homemade envelopes. Tax receipts, wrapping paper, election ballots, bank checks, accounting forms, music sheets .... etc... were exploited for postal purposes.
The envelopes fashioned out of wallpaper are stunning and slobbered over by .. cough.. geeky collectors! (Like my boyfriend).
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Le Figaro Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard friend has her 'Le Figaro' newspaper thinking cap on.
The Parisian Paper was founded as a satirical weekly in 1826 and was published rather sporadically. It is now the leading French daily but has more of a conservative edge.
The name and motto of the paper was taken from the play written by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, 'Le Mariage de Figaro.' The motto, "Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur" translates as "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no true praise".
I scrunched my nose at this Wiki article. Didn't Mozart write The Marriage of Figaro? Isn't is an opera? Mozart took this play (which had actually been banned in Vienna) and turned it into the especially famous comic opera in 1786!
Catch up with my post on the French Newspaper Le Matin!
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Fish Metamorphosis à la Vintage Postcards
The life of this flat as a mat fish includes metamorphosis.
Young flounders swim upright with a typical eye situation until .... boom .. the eye starts 'migrating' to the other side of their body.
After this fishy right of passage occurs the flounder starts leading more of a horizontal lifestyle. He starts digging, hiding, and feeding on the sandy bottom of the ocean. Do you think that he is embarrassed about turning into such an odd looking fish?
The wooden shoe clad vintage postcard couple are too enamored with each other to notice the fatuous seafood at their feet.
If you missed my post about shrimp here's the link!
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