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When Retro Goes Wrong

Debate Your Plate

If Mad Men made these kinds of food adverts, I'd begin watching regularly and with religious zeal

We complain about today’s pushy marketing tricks – but check out this ad for popsicle moulds! What’s worse? The crazy-eyed kid or the mould that looks like a rotting steak? And as for the other popsicle?! As Freud (who constantly smoked cigars) put it: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” Yep. We can safely say: Evel definitely is evil.

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Join the Big Society before they make you: here’s how to start your own food coop

Debate your plate

C'mon, it's better than running a library – and you'll score some seriously good value ingredients.

We’ve been glued to Arthur Potts-Dawson’s People’s Supermarket on Channel 4. It’s taken them a while to agree on what to stock (Potts-Dawson take note – 75p a pop unwaxed lemons are not cutting it) but it’s a brilliant idea based on Park Slope, a hugely successful New York coop. But the People’s Supermarket is not alone – up and down the country, in universities, schools, workplaces, community centres and church halls communities are clubbing together, taking control of where their food comes from and getting great discounts.

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