{"id":56,"date":"2007-01-13T23:52:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T04:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinomara.com\/2007\/01\/13\/79%c2%a2-tarragon\/"},"modified":"2007-01-13T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T04:52:09","slug":"79%c2%a2-tarragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"79\u00c2\u00a2 tarragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kevinomara\/356546651\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/139\/356546651_f6869ea175_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>I found this in my parents&#8217; spice rack.  It&#8217;s absolutely fascinating to me, though I think they were embarrassed by its age and what that implies about their culinary endeavors.  I love the colors, the fonts, the styling &#8211; everything about the visuals is fantastic and just retro enough to be cool.<\/p>\n<p>I also love the use of the words &#8220;Sea Food&#8221; and &#8220;Prepared Mustard&#8221; on the back label.  Those really drive home the temporal disparity we got going on here.<\/p>\n<p>But wait &#8211; the best part is the 79\u00c2\u00a2 stamped on the bottom.  Now, this is very crude calculation here, but according to Froogle <A HREF=\"http:\/\/froogle.google.com\/froogle?q=tarragon+.4+oz&#038;btnG=Search\">the average price of a bottle of tarragon around this size is $4.00-ish<\/A>.  If I dump that information into an <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.westegg.com\/inflation\/\">inflation calculator<\/A> and work backwards, it turns out that $4.00 in 2005 dollars is $0.79 in <B>1970<\/B> dollars.  I can&#8217;t believe that this bottle of Tarragon is from 1970 &#8230; <I>or is it?!<\/I><\/p>\n<p>Dunh dunh dunnnnnnn-n-n-n-n-h!<\/p>\n<p><SMALL>and of course, you can <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=356546651&#038;size=l\">view the larger size for better detail<\/A><\/SMALL><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this in my parents&#8217; spice rack. It&#8217;s absolutely fascinating to me, though I think they were embarrassed by its age and what that implies about their culinary endeavors. I love the colors, the fonts, the styling &#8211; everything about the visuals is fantastic and just retro enough to be cool. I also love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}