Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

as an american, i only eat the most patriotic of snack foods 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🍿🫡

Photo of a bin in a supermarket offering 100g ℮ flat packages of microwave popcorn for sale. The packages are branded “Movies Star Presents American Popcorn” and have the US flag as the main motif; an image of Uncle Sam from the famous 1917 World War I recruitment poster can also be seen. However, the photo is obviously not taken in the United States, as there is a Swedish ”10:-/st” sticker on each package. Photo of one side an roughly cube-shaped cardboard box of popcorn. The printing on this side of the box features gaudy use of a US flag motif, images of popped corns, and top hats with US flag stripes and stars on them. Photo of the front side of a roughly cube-shaped cardboard box of popcorn. There are holes in the box that let you see the popped corn inside. The printing on the front side of the box features gaudy use of a US flag motif, and the famous image of Uncle Sam from a 1917 World War I recruitment poster, who points at the viewer, but has clearly been edited so he is holding a box of popcorn.
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Hayley Question-Mark

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@hikari Are you currently in a French speaking area? Or is the sucre just there for reasons?

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

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@barrowofdirt the product is made in france apparently. i don't think sweden is the target market, there was a separate sticker added with a swedish translation

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

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europe loves to treat america like it's an untrademarked generic brand. it's funny (i'm not american 😔)

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Saagar Jha

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@hikari This is because you cannot trademark the United States, as per 15 USC § 1052 Section 2(b)

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

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i think this is because america is the default country so it feels generic and screaming about it on the packaging won't really bring any associations with it, and at the same time the stars and stripes are just great motifs, no graphic designer can resist the urge to use them