Packaging to catch the eye

And to tempt the palate

HAT BIT about mail done up in gold foil

and sporting a bottle of champagne was not

fiction; just evidence of the effort put out by
hard-working public relations folks.

The champagne-( 6a: ae
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Pear which it accompanied,
the whole thing costed upina
gold-lned basket. I mean,
really. I’ve told you before
how juicy and, at the same
time, crisp those pampered
fruits are, and what a good

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lunch accompanied by
cheese. Well, champagne
doesn't detract, at all.

Then there was the

package from the Neilson
Chocolate people, containing
some of their new ‘‘Merci’’
bars. These are slender bars
of milk chocolate, centred
with praline, presented in a
flat fold-out case, each one

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wrapped in gold-tipped

cellophane. They are called ‘Eleanor
**Merci’’ to underscore their

attraction as a charming Godley

small hostess gift, or ‘thank [=
you'’ for favors done. ;

The News office, where I
picked them up, was full of
potential tasters, and | was
impressed that amongst them
there was not one dissenting
vote as to the bars’ ex-
cellence. Every single person
who ate one pronounced it
“awfully good’ or ‘‘mmm-
mmm", that sort of thing.
Two, both young people,
remarked them especially as
being ‘‘European,’’ and

A couple of days later, the
Roman Meal Company
brought me lunch, which was
very nice of them---a thick
sandwich of tuna and celery
stuffed between two slices of
their good Roman Meal
bread. A shiny red apple for
dessert, and a carton of milk;
they thought of everything,
including the bag, which was
blazoned with my name and a

‘“thands off’ caution to
when I asked what they trespassers.
meant by that, both said, I, like everyone else, knew
‘not too sweet.”’ You could they made a great cereal,

probably count on pleasing
almost any one with a gift of
these Yourself,

nothing like it on a winter’s
morning, but I was not aware
of bread under their label

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Its grainy and tull of Mavor
and has a good substantial
texture, and it bears out their
logo, “‘When you know
what's good for you.”’

If you “*brown-bag’’ it
regularly, you might enjoy
the distinchion of a per-
sonahzed lunch-bag. Certain-
ly kids would. They are for
sale, in quantity, from = the
Roman Meal Company, P.O
Box 2440 in New
Westminster.

They are also responsible
for a booklet of bag-lunch
suggestions, such interesting
ideas as sprinkling the but-
tered bread with allspice
before laying the cold pork
slices on it; Or making a
‘*spinch salad sandwich’’ by
topping a few of the leaves
with hard-cooked egg and
crumbled bacon and onion.
And fancy a ‘‘strawberry-
cheesecake sandwich!”’

Roman Meal bread is
stingy with the calories, and
the company emphasizes
sandwiches with nutrition,
urging combinations of stuff
like low-calorie ricotta
cheese, water-packed tuna,
plain yogurt instead of
mayonnaise, sliced or diced
chicken, and lot of vegetable
things such as cucumber, zuc-
chini, broccoli, mushrooms,
sprouts, spinach and cole
slaw.

Of all these novelties,
though, the most startling
was the invitation to meet
with ‘‘Brewmaster Bob,’’ the
man with the ‘‘Three Week
Wine’ kit. He’s a British
chap representing Paine’s, a
company that has been
marketing John Bull Home
Brew in this country and
others for 60 years. They've
seen the steady rise in Great

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are proud to announce
the opening of their

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Hours 6pm to9pm Monday-—Friday
12 noon to6pm Saturday

Britain of home-made beer
and wines, and predicted
their fast wine-making on the
tough times and high
unemployment that increases
the attractiveness of less ex-
pensive home-made drinks. > oes cia nee

Their simplified short-cut F. p. f. ¢. Hi

version, which has in the one
PACIFIC FISH AND SEAFOOD

package everything you need
This week’s special

for the gallon-sized jug and a
fermentation lock, yields six
fresh hand- pre-sliced
peeled shrimp sockeye !ox

bottles of red or white, dry or
medium, for about a third
the price of the store-bought
sort.

Besides the lower price,
there is another advantage in
that these kits are scaled to
the apartment-dweller.  [n-
stead of the customary five-
gallon container, one needs
only space on the counter for
a modest one-gallon carboy.
And though the wine is
claimed to be drinkable in
three weeks’ time, the com-
pany suggests you try to con-
tain yourself a little longer to
achieve a finer product.

Well, I'm for it. I’ve
cleared the counter-space and
started saving my _ mineral-
water bottles. Six bottles of
red coming up for Christmas.
With that under my belt,
perhaps I'll be prepared to
tackle the ‘‘High Jinks,”
another neat kit that pro-
mises a vodka-orange
flavored drink in the same
brief period of time. How
clumsy those 1920s bath-tubs
must have been!

Try our lunch bar featuring
“THE BEST SHRIMP SANDWICH”

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