Dear North Americans, I am curious: Does this food branding look weird to you? What do you think?
@Anke struggling to think of a time i have ever seen lady liberty on a food product? Can’t definitively say never but definitely some Weird Vibes there
Mcennedy is presumably a variant spelling of McKennedy?? I have never seen it spelled this way in the US so I’m kinda fascinated (i assume theres some sort of phonetic / spelling restriction prompting the K drop?)
Mixing US and Canadian iconography is generally weird and not done, but seems especially ill put when the US does actually make its own maple syrup. Most of what I buy is from either PA (aka local farms) or Vermont (which has a reputation for making Really Good syrup)
Generally this design feels very…retro? If someone told me this was a movie prop for something set in the 90’s I’d be much more inclined to believe them than saying they saw it at a modern American grocery store
@cynthianconspiracy @Anke oh part of why i noted it so strongly is because without the caps my brain initially parsed the c as being next to an e and therefore being soft (like cede or ceiling)
but your interpretation is probably closer to how the hypothetical english speaking McEnnedy would pronounce their name yeah
@Anke @cynthianconspiracy ha! yes exactly
@cynthianconspiracy @Satsuma Wikipedia said that Old High German still had geminated consonants that were phonologically separate, that got lost in the development to Middle High German.
In modern German, double consonants in writing mark the vocal before it is short, not that the consonant is long.
@Satsuma The best before date was in 2019. :D
I was about to say that I can't think of a reason why they'd start with "McKennedy" and drop the K, but maybe it's related to ck being a single phoneme, and the allcaps writing not allowing for the distinguishing the Mc from the name, like McKennedy in normal case does.