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Reminds me of the old Yakov Smirnoff jokes with his punchline, "What a country!"

"In American grocery stores they put a picture of the food on the jar. I can't read English but can tell what is in the container by looking at the picture. I see beans and it's beans. I see corn and it's corn. I see peas and it's peas. Then I see a jar with a baby on the label...WHAT A COUNTRY!...."

1 posted on 11/22/2020 6:42:29 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

I’d be curious to know if she made money for all those years. 8>)


2 posted on 11/22/2020 6:48:38 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Rebelbase

Gerber is clearly racist.


3 posted on 11/22/2020 6:51:14 AM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Rebelbase

I wonder how long before the wokesters force Gerber to apologize for the whiteness of their label and consign Ann Cook to the ash bin of history?


4 posted on 11/22/2020 6:53:55 AM PST by oldvirginian (Behind enemy lines in the Old Dominion)
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To: Rebelbase

When did she begin making Gerber knives?


5 posted on 11/22/2020 7:02:22 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure)
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To: Rebelbase
The world’s biggest baby-food maker, which started in Michigan, opened its third plant in Rochester [NY] shortly after World War II.
Gerber Products’ iconic water tower, which looked like a giant baby food jar, became a Rochester landmark. Gerber shut down in 1982.
Kodak leased the building for many years in the '90s- I worked there for 2 years - and to this day, the building is still known as the Gerber building.
6 posted on 11/22/2020 7:02:22 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Rebelbase
Not Humphry Bogart, huh?

Regards,

7 posted on 11/22/2020 7:10:17 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Rebelbase

Strange headline...that’s a really old baby.


9 posted on 11/22/2020 7:12:57 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: Rebelbase

10 posted on 11/22/2020 7:19:12 AM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Rebelbase

If you look at the right edge you can see what looks like the artist’s initials. I wonder if the original drawing still exists. It is a bit of America as well as a famous example of commercial art - it should be worth something.


11 posted on 11/22/2020 7:21:39 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Rebelbase

She’s still very pretty.


12 posted on 11/22/2020 7:22:06 AM PST by georgiegirl (Count me Deplorable)
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To: Rebelbase

A little bit of trivia.

Germany had a national contest for the ideal Germanic/Aryan baby. A photographer sent in a beautiful baby girl who was Jewish and she won. He knew this. Germans never caught on .


13 posted on 11/22/2020 7:27:42 AM PST by setter
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To: Rebelbase

That’s funny.

The lady looks great.


15 posted on 11/22/2020 7:53:22 AM PST by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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To: Rebelbase

She’s still a cutie...even if she’s only 92.


16 posted on 11/22/2020 7:57:43 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Rebelbase

So she ate Gerber baby food...and look what happened to her! :>)

Congrats to this grand old lady.


20 posted on 11/22/2020 8:30:20 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. )
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To: Rebelbase
I had to eat that food when I was a baby in the early 1960s.

I had no choice. That's what my mother bought from the supermarket.

Then a few years later, she started bringing home from the supermarket volumes of Funk & Wagnalls.

Look That Up in Your Funk and Wagnalls!


23 posted on 11/22/2020 8:34:34 AM PST by SamAdams76 (Orange Man GOOD!)
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To: Rebelbase

Happy birthday baby Smith!!


25 posted on 11/22/2020 9:44:47 AM PST by mowowie
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To: Rebelbase

She hasn’t changed a bit


26 posted on 11/22/2020 9:51:12 AM PST by MountainWalker
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To: Rebelbase

Looks great at 94!


29 posted on 11/22/2020 10:56:28 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Rebelbase
Wait till he hits the pet food section.

31 posted on 11/22/2020 3:12:16 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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