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OT: Heinz soup counters [message #390728]

Tue, 04 February 2020 15:54

hancock4
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OFF TOPIC

In the 1950s, Heinz advertised its soups and specially
equipped serving locations as fast food.

Some ads

https://books.google.com/books?id=GE4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA32& amp;dq=heinz%20soup%20counter&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q&am p;f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=iEkEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA16& amp;dq=heinz%20soup%20counter&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q&am p;f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=RUoEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA14& amp;dq=heinz%20soup%20counter&pg=PA14#v=onepage&q&am p;f=false

(Nothing about computers, but presumably a big company
like Heinz had a big datacenter.)

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Re: OT: Heinz soup counters [message #390739 is a reply to message #390728]

Tue, 04 February 2020 18:34

Peter Flass
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<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
> OFF TOPIC
>
> In the 1950s, Heinz advertised its soups and specially
> equipped serving locations as fast food.
>
> Some ads
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=GE4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA32& amp;dq=heinz%20soup%20counter&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q&am p;f=false

“Comely hostesses?” - cancel, cancel...

>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=iEkEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA16& amp;dq=heinz%20soup%20counter&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q&am p;f=false
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=RUoEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA14& amp;dq=heinz%20soup%20counter&pg=PA14#v=onepage&q&am p;f=false
>
>
> (Nothing about computers, but presumably a big company
> like Heinz had a big datacenter.)
>
>
>
>
>
>

--
Pete

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Re: OT: Heinz soup counters [message #390747 is a reply to message #390739]

Wed, 05 February 2020 11:44

Quadibloc
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On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 4:34:39 PM UTC-7, Peter Flass wrote:

> “Comely hostesses?” - cancel, cancel...

The "Comely hostesses" are from the _Kansas City Southern_: in other words,
they're _customers_ of the Heinz Electric Soup Kitchen, not _employees_.

So it isn't Hooters before its time, and it isn't grounds for categorizing Heinz
as insufficiently woke.

John Savard

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