SoulCougher t1_ja9xrql wrote on February 27, 2023 at 10:34 PM Reply to TIL that the labels on Angostura bitters bottles are intentionally annoying. The original brothers entered a competition and due to a miscommunication, wound up with wrong size labels. A friendly judge suggested the brothers make that label their signature. The advice stuck. by dmanlian Kind of like how Pringle’s initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day the rubber was supposed to show up, a truckload of potatoes came. And Pringles was a laid-back company, so they just said “fuck it, cut em up!” Permalink 16
SoulCougher t1_ja9xrql wrote
Reply to TIL that the labels on Angostura bitters bottles are intentionally annoying. The original brothers entered a competition and due to a miscommunication, wound up with wrong size labels. A friendly judge suggested the brothers make that label their signature. The advice stuck. by dmanlian
Kind of like how Pringle’s initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day the rubber was supposed to show up, a truckload of potatoes came. And Pringles was a laid-back company, so they just said “fuck it, cut em up!”