The Museum of Failed Products
When I heard about this museum a few days ago, I had to think of the option! Contrary to London’s Museum of Brands (http://www.museumofbrands.com/), this museum in Michigan shows us what doesn’t get to stay on supermarket shelves:
“This is consumer capitalism’s graveyard – the shadow side to the relentlessly upbeat, success-focused culture of modern marketing. Or to put it less grandly: it’s almost certainly the only place on the planet where you’ll find Clairol’s A Touch of Yogurt shampoo alongside Gillette’s equally unpopular For Oily Hair Only, a few feet from a now-empty bottle of Pepsi AM Breakfast Cola (born 1989; died 1990). The museum is home to discontinued brands of caffeinated beer; to TV dinners branded with the logo of the toothpaste manufacturer Colgate; to self-heating soup cans that had a regrettable tendency to explode in customers’ faces; and to packets of breath mints that had to be withdrawn from sale because they looked like the tiny packages of crack cocaine dispensed by America’s street drug dealers. It is where microwaveable scrambled eggs – pre-scrambled and sold in a cardboard tube with a pop-up mechanism for easier consumption in the car – go to die.” Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian
Guardian article here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jun/15/happiness-is-being-a-loser-burkeman
Contributed by MariaSalaru on 05/02/2017
One response to “The Museum of Failed Products”
I really wish that we could all go and visit this museum instead of our London trip instead!