Stuart Semmel
@semmiotic
British history, political thought, history of consciousness, movies, snacks
The funny thing about this concept is that potato chips (crisps) are potato, and “chips” (fries) are potato, so it’s kind of like Cookies and Cream Oreos, which do in fact exist—which is to say there’s some self-reflexivity going on with these Fish and Chips chips.
For every like this picture gets I will post another image of a foodstuff from Taiwan or Japan.
Identify the breakfast sandwich? (An ancient jingle is now in my head.)
Other multi-stamp sets appeared during the long Bicentennial rollout, including a fifty-stamp state flag collection.
I wasn’t a stamp collector in any real sense. Still, this was the high point of my interest in stamps, encouraged by my parents who did the legwork for me to get a few first-day covers—including, I think, this four-stamp set of the John Trumbull painting of the Declaration’s signing.
Bicentennial stamps were issued from 1971 (the official logo, by Bruce Blackburn, designer of the NASA “worm” logo) to *1983* (marking the Treaty of Paris). I can attest to the fact that by 1983, the notion of “the Bicentennial” seemed a distant memory; this stamp seemed like a weird anachronism.
How woke was the bicentennial? Check out the “Contributors to the Cause” stamps: a woman, a Black man who bought his way to freedom, and two immigrants (one from Portugal, one a Polish Jew). Simpler times—a time when stamps, like the bicentennial, could excite a kid. Nothing wrong with that.
Tarot Egerton (Welsh/English) revealed that he wasn’t from Illinois when he did this in “Black Bird”: