Today, while I was trying to find our martini shaker, I found this box of brown sugar:
Our house was built in 1959. We moved into it in 2001.
Any guesses about the vintage of this box? Interestingly, there’s still brown sugar in it, and it doesn’t smell bad. I will probably not eat it.
And no, the package does not have a “sell by” date on it or anything.
That’s looking mid- to late-70’s to me.
Yep, the metric conversion on the box places it post-Ford Administration (President Ford was the one who signed the order calling for the US to wean itself into the metric system). I would say '77-81?
Brilliant. I didn’t even think about the metric thing.
<hillbilly voice> Y’all are so smart!
Why are we assuming it’s old at all? The metric conversion does indicate it can’t be too old, but why can’t it be a box from last year or something? Isn’t that comic sans!? heh
Seriously, though, there isn’t an expiration date on the box?
I was thinking the same thing, Robert, since I’ve seen other “retro” products around. I didn’t have any particular expertise or knowledge to show otherwise, though, so I couldn’t comment.
Is there anything that points to the age of the box other than the retro look?
And that is the current Kroger logo…
The current Kroger logo looks a lot like that but is now a metallic blue with a red border:
It’s gotta be from before we moved in, because I found it in a place that we don’t use for food. And if it’s that old, it’s just as likely to be from the 70’s.
And no expiration date that we can see. There’s an embossed code that says C063B3, but that’s not very helpful.
The brown plaid screams “genuinely old” to me.
C063B3 probably means it expired on March 3rd. I’m gonna take a shot in the dark and say that the 3 stands for 1983.
I’d eat it.
Edit: This commercial from 1987 has the blue logo.
Is there a UPC on it anywhere?