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

@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.

@Anke @Satsuma FWIW, I would pronounce these slightly differently if they were both in English—“McKennedy” with a geminated aspirated K and the hypothetical “McEnnedy” with a single unaspirated one, I think. (Does German have geminated consonants?)

@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