During the phone call wherein she poetically espoused the negative aspects of the green tea, I took a gander at the packaging wherein the most heinous of warm tea-like beverage was contained. Here is what I saw.
Now, I'm no advertising exec.,nor am I a paid art critic, but c'mon, this is substandard even by my substandard's of packaged artwork.
However, since the taste of the tea apparently accurately reflects the cheesiness of the packaging, perhaps the artist who created the masterpiece can be forgiven if he was wholly motivated by what lie beneath the folded boxes contents.
Hard to be creative when you gagging I suppose.
I'm not blaming Cain's here. Apparently the Cain's Coffee company has ceased to exist for some time now, having been sold to Nestle in 1960, Chock Full O Nuts in 1992, and Sara Lee in 1999.
Why stymies me is that Sara Lee's coffee and tea division apparently makes some decent selling hot beverage products.
Yet nowhere on their Brands website can the Cain's logo or product line be found.
In '03 Cain's Oklahoma coffee and production plant was closed and even though the grocery story shelves throughout the panhandle state still devote an enormous amount of shelf space to the perceived "Made in Oklahoma" line of Cain's products, they only thing remotely "Cain's" about it is the name on the label.
Another fine Oklahoma institutional product, relegated to ugly stepchild status.
At least the ultra-cool Cain's Ballroom is still rockin' and rollin' and swingin' and swayin'.
Wonder what kind of tea they serve there? Hope it's not green.
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