Flicker of memory.

[saxikath]

Something in someone else's journal made me think of this: They used to put pictures on sugar packets. I remember particularly the packets in a Flagstaff, Arizona restaurant when I was in ninth grade that had illustrations of Hopi kachina dancers. But I remember there used to be other ones in other restaurants.

Does anyone do that anymore? I haven't seen a sugar packet with a picture on it in years.

Comments

[totient]

I remember those! I think the last one I saw may well have been... of Hopi kachina dancers in a restaurant in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1997.

[zenala.livejournal.com]

I've seen this recently somewhere... I forget where... but I think it was around here. There were pictures of boats and various New-England-y things, I think...

They still do this in Europe--of course, it tends to be sugar cubes over there. I used to collect them when I was younger, because they'd often have really cute pictures. A year or two ago I ran into trouble trying to save some because I just put them in my backpack, forgot about them when I got home, and then got caught in the rain with sugar cubes in my outside backpack pocket... Oops...

[cnoocy]

I think they have them at the Arlington Diner.

[ironrat.livejournal.com]

I've also seen them recently, mostly in restaurants in Wyoming...

[crossfire.livejournal.com]

I remember it too. And I know people collect them.

[magickcat.livejournal.com]

Interesting.
I've never seen sugar packets with pictures.
I remember though, when my cousins moved into this big hiuse several years back, in the attic were old LIFE magazines and a bunch of HOODSIE lids with pictures on them. That was pretty nifty, I thought.

[luckylefty.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten all about those, and at the same time not even noticed that they were gone.

The first time GAMES magazine had a scavenger hunt as their monthly contest, one of the things required was "A sugar packet with a picture of a woodpecker". I remember using this as an excuse to go back to Providence, since the sugar packets at the Brown dining halls had pictures that included a woodpecker.

[mixedborder.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! I haven't seen one since, oh, the seventies I think. The ones I remember were Oregon-type scenery--pictures of mountains, lakes, ocean beaches. (Oregon is where I lived.)

[lunacow]

When I read this post yesterday, I was thinking that maybe C&H sugar packets had pictures on them. Then today I went to a restaurant for lunch, where I was able to verify that this is true. They have simple drawings of scenes and flowers from Hawaii (and maybe California -- the two states are where the company name originates). I can't find any pictures online.