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Victorian food brands still extant

Started by yereverluvinunclebert, March 30, 2012, 12:55:56 AM

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J. Wilhelm

Quote from: von Corax on June 30, 2024, 04:03:27 AM
Quote from: J. Wilhelm on June 30, 2024, 01:08:38 AMMy apologies, I've been absent for a good while, but real life simply took over.  Nothing like death in the family to interrupt your hobbies.

On the idea of starting a wiki page, I think Mr. Bowman's idea is excellent.  However, I don't think that all 5? lists are anywhere close to completion.

We have I believe, 5 lists.

1. A UK list, non- compiled (ie you have to read all the posts to write them into a list.

2. A partially compiled United States list, and I apologize for not having finished compiling it.  I need to review perhaps the last 1/3 of all the posts in the thread.  The list is actually longer than the number of lines/words that a Simple Machines 1.x post could accommodate, but that's not an issue for an HTML page, I think.  I have the partial list compiled as a text file.

3. The Mexican list is almost completely compiled as a text file, but probably because the list is so short.  I'm under no illusions that the list is anywhere close to being comprehensive.  It's just that researching Mexican brands is a bit more difficult than researching American brands.

4. The Japanese list (Meiji Era list?) is extremely short, and I don't believe it's a complete list by any stretch of the imagination.  It's just the hardest list to complete.

5. The European list is also not compiled at all.  Someone has to go through the whole thread to put it together.  Often the European list, however, overlaps with the Mexican list, because of certain brands that arrived in Mexico from the 1890s through to the start of WWI.

Ahem.

6. The Dominion of Canada list is fully compiled and transferred to the wiki, but would benefit from being sorted and categorized. There are also one or two additions not yet made.

As for overlap, I don't see a problem with it; the Dominion list has more than a few foreign brands which were included based on the probable date of first importation.

Oh, sorry, that's correct.  I realized it wasn't a North American list.

Indeed overlapping actually isn't a fault, but a feature by necessity. Starting in the very late 19th century, American, Mexican and Swiss brands started to export certain items to each other (eg Sauza, Heinz, Knorr's), and the British did so much earlier in history (eg Marie biscuits).

von Corax

Just a note: there are now links in the wiki which will create the US and UK lists. Go to Main->Food.
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