Hail To The Emperor

There is talk around the office about new packaging from Tropicana and Pepsi.

Comments so far:

- Makes me think of body wash, "Pure and Natural."
- There is sort of a trendy modern design neutrality to it. Flirts with being boring.
- Reminds of Nature's Way products also!!!
- As our fearless leader (soon, not to be) would have said: "Fool me once.... (awkward pause, blank stare) shame on.... shame on.... me.... (another awkward pause, blank stare)... fool me twice.... (even more awkward pause, another blank stare) ahhhh... (final awkward pause, leaning into the mic) a fooled man can't get fooled a-gin!"

What do you think?

Comments

[David Fuller]

Tropicana is just so... so.. white! And that little nipple thing standing in for the screw-on cap is just creepy.

If the Pepsi logo gets any more corporate, all drinking of pepsi products will have to be restricted to cubicles.

[Jonathan Hutter]

I didn't notice the nipple on the Trop package. I...kind of like it.

[Kevin Brusie]

First - I think the nipple/cap on this product photo is NOT what has made it to grocery store shelves. Too bad.
Aside from the usual male fixation on things of that nature... This packaging gets the big thumbs down for me. I was just ranting about it two days ago in the local supermarche'... Tropicana [btw, wasn't it originally Tropic-Ana? With a little dancing hula girl? or am I loosing it... again?] has SO many product variants (pulp, some pulp, no pulp, calcium, selenium, viagra, etc...) that I, as a consumer, need CLEAR INDICATION (unlike what most Maine driver's do at intersections, but that's another rant) of what is IN the PACKAGE. They WERE very successful at that. Now I spend WAY TOO LONG trying to decipher the contents... which, ironically is no on the top seam tab, conveniently hidden behind the oh so popular but not really existent nipple cap.
I now drink tea in the morning. I probably don't need the sugar of OJ anyway... off to have a beer...

[Kevin Brusie]

And one more thing... [Damn, I should stay way from espresso...] I only JUST realized the package is a photo of a glass of OJ. Thought it was just some abstract orange shape... now if they had put the juice in a Flinstones Jelly Glass, then we might have some better recognition!!!

[Jonathan Hutter]

I recall the Tropic Ana also now. It was some girl in a hula skirt. Which they probably took off because she was dressed only in the skirt with a lei for the top coverage.