Products that Have Been Around Forever Without Changing - The stuff your grandma and grandpa buy

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Flour is mostly unchanged since ancient times. A lot of the variety available now has been available for a long time. For example white flour used to be a status food for the elite because it was difficult to make back then but now we can make it easier so it's poor people food
 
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Testacles Maximus said:
I don't see BIC lighters or bandaids ever needing to evolve.
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Band-Aids are different, I know the gauze part didn't have the hexagons or whatever they do now.

Breadbassket said:
Hydrox cookies and their century-long brand war to maintain relevance against Oreo hegemony comes to mind.
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Hydrox was discontinued years ago.

Anyway, I nominate Ivory soap.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Hydrox was discontinued years ago.
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It was yes but it was brought back, then discontinued again, and then brought back once more but as of last year there is some article saying it is facing more issues. The current owner of the brand accuses Oreo manufacturer Mondelez Interantional of using sweetheart deals to crush its competitor.
 
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Breadbassket said:
It was yes but it was brought back, then discontinued again, and then brought back once more but as of last year there is some article saying it is facing more issues. The current owner of the product accuses Oreo manufacturer Mondelez Interantional of using sweetheart deals to crush its competitor.
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Yeah but even Oreos aren't the same anymore. Nabisco got bought by Kraft Foods back when I was a kid, and at some point they got outsourced to Mexico where the cookie just isn't the same anymore.

You want long-term stuff for this thread it's got to be the same factory, continuous production. Like Milk-Bone or Tabasco sauce, both coming from the same place as they did back in the 1940s (Buffalo NY and Avery Island LA, respectively).
 
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TruffleSpark said:
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The Shure SM58 has been in continuous production since the 1960s. Not bad for a piece of consumer electronics. You've probably seen one of these without even realizing there was a name for this particular type of microphone.
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I would say the SM57 counts too. Apart from the SM58 it's the mic I've seen literally everywhere for nearly any purpose.
 
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Since someone mentioned Listerine already I'll throw in baking soda especially Arm & Hammer brand.

Also add Vegemite for Australians. Especially bonus points for Woolworth's brand. How tf does Woolworth's stores die around the world but manage to survive as a brand Down Under,
 
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