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Kool-Aid - July 1954 (i.imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Between 1910 and 1960 there was a weird fascination with the purity of things. Ivory soap (99% pure) is a hold over from that time. It was probably coded eugenics or some racist undercurrent among consumers.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Read Sinclair's "The Jungle" and you'll definitely understand the obsession with purity. It was about as regulated as "100% natural" is these days, but at least meant that your "100% pure beef" was less likely to be cut with sawdust or rat meat or something.