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

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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.
I've used tons of Shure mics over the years at work it's hard to think of others. Unfortunately the memes of mic drops come from SM57 and 58s because they can take such a beating.

Seriously add Rockets to the list. Also someone mentioned candy corn in another post but that dredges thoughts of circus peanuts now too.
 
Altoids. I always default to the cinnamon flavor for when I need to stay up.

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I always keep the tin they come in. It's very handy to hold stuff in.
 
The wheel.

Hard to innovate on success.
I guess they still roughly have the same shape, but you'd be surprised to see how much they have changed since their introduction.
From the original Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age designs made of wooden plates stuck together, to the revolution of the spoked wheel (itself going through many iterations) to the introduction of tires, there's a lot more thought than you'd think that went into how these things evolved.
 
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,

It was never part of the rest of the company.

The name on the draft prospectus drawn up by Cecil Scott Waine was "Walworth's Bazaar" – a play on the name of F.W. Woolworth, the owner of the Woolworth's chain in the United States and United Kingdom.[5] According to Ernest Robert Williams, Percy Christmas dared him to register the name Woolworths instead, which he succeeded in doing after finding out the name was available for use in New South Wales.

(Aussie's Kmarts were part of the U.S. Kmart at one time through a joint venture, though they pulled out their holdings entirely in the mid-1990s).
 
It was never part of the rest of the company.



(Aussie's Kmarts were part of the U.S. Kmart at one time through a joint venture, though they pulled out their holdings entirely in the mid-1990s).
Yeah Aussie business difference history is so weird. I heard the explanations on why some chains of Burger King restaurants were renamed Hungry Jack's instead but I still don't get why? Oz marketing is bunk asf.

Since we are mostly talking about candies and sweets stage planks have been unchanged as long as I have seen them. Very simple design. Also banana candy flavoring has outlasted the kind of banana the flavoring was meant to imitate
I recall banana flavoring has to do somehow with the banana blights a century ago? Like we lost the original flavor of bananas and now have some Matrix imitation one?
 
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I recall banana flavoring has to do somehow with the banana blights a century ago? Like we lost the original flavor of bananas and now have some Matrix imitation one?
To make a long story short the way most fruit is produced is through splicing the desirable fruits onto other plants because plants are living thing and rarely do you get consistent taste from planting the seeds of good tasting fruit. Wild bananas have really nasty seeds inside the meat, so seedless varieties of banana are preferred, and that poses a problem for the continued production of those bananas since if anything happens to the trees you don't have anything to replant to even try to get started on getting back to a good tasting seedless variety.

And I wouldn't say we have like a matrix imitation banana, it's just that there are multiple types of banana in the same way there are multiple types of grape and so a different banana species was then groomed to have a seedless variety and became the new main banana stock
 
Band-Aids are different
I had to buy some recently and I couldn't fine any where the bandage part of it didn't have adhesive on its sides, basically sealing your cut. But I wanted to be able to air it out.

Someone said hookers, but that doesn't work because they went digital.
 
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Yeah Aussie business difference history is so weird. I heard the explanations on why some chains of Burger King restaurants were renamed Hungry Jack's instead but I still don't get why? Oz marketing is bunk asf.

Years ago, when Burger King was trying to expand in the U.S., they got bought by Pillsbury, a company known for its food products but was trying to expand into other businesses like restaurants. Unlike McDonald's, which stayed independent and went international with no problems, Burger King was stymied because Pillsbury wanted to run the restaurants through its own international subsidiaries which was far removed from the business it ran normally.

When it came time to franchise to Australia, they couldn't use the Burger King trademark so they settled on a name that was a brand of pancake mix and pancake syrup Pillsbury owned, Hungry Jack. There was some sort of disagreement where Burger King came back and sued the franchisee claiming breach of contract and opened actual Burger King-branded restaurants (the original trademark had expired, so they could use it) but ultimately the "Burger King" restaurants in Australia got rebranded to Hungry Jack's anyway. By that time, however, the corporate situation stateside had gotten rearranged and the Hungry Jack brand name wasn't connected to Burger King anymore.

As an aside, when it comes to American food brands they get traded and bought up so often trying to find the history of even one brand ends up being an adventure in autism and you get weird things like when Pfizer had a candy division.
 
It's not a product, but I'd like to nominate GNU Emacs. It's my preferred computer program for most tasks. The GNU project may add another ten thousand definitions to the base distribution, but I'll be able to ignore them until I choose otherwise.

The MOS 6502 processor is, I believe, still in production. For that matter, to Josh's chagrin, IPv4 has only ever lost features throughout its existence, and IPv6 is more likely to be itself replaced than to replace it.
I recall banana flavoring has to do somehow with the banana blights a century ago? Like we lost the original flavor of bananas and now have some Matrix imitation one?
A classmate once gave a presentation on this that stuck with me. I may get some details wrong, so use this as a point for further learning. The banana plant is cloned to make more of the same variety. Apparently, the Cavendish banana plant is arguably the largest organism on Earth due to this. The Cavendish is what we currently know as a "normal" banana. There was a much sweeter variety known as the Gros Michel once commonplace. I've never liked banana sundaes, and I believe this to be because it originally called for this dessert banana, but I'm not entirely certain about this. The Gros Michel fell to a fungus or some other plague and, as the plants are genetically identical, something that can destroy one can destroy all of them. The Cavendish was introduced because it was resilient, but there's now something which can attack it that has already spread to South America. I've been surprised that bananas are still available in my grocery store because of this, so maybe they have a handle on it. From what I've read, this fungus is of the fun variety that is detected by the time it has already spread miles in every direction.
 
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,
It's funny that dingoes still have Woolworths, but I have seen one of them since the early 90's.
 
Makeup:
Estee Lauders' Double-Wear foundation, it's been one of the best sellers for close to 30 years.

Maybelline Great Lash mascara. Supposedly, a tube is sold every two minutes. I don't like it myself, but many people swear by it.

Elizabeth Ardens' Eight Hour cream. It was originally used on EAs horses, but the grooms noticed how soft it made their hands. It is one of the best things for chapped hands, windburn, and other skin irritants.
 
I had to buy some recently and I couldn't fine any where the bandage part of it didn't have adhesive on its sides, basically sealing your cut. But I wanted to be able to air it out.

Someone said hookers, but that doesn't work because they went digital.
I wonder if it's considered alterations if the original flesh colored Band-Aids were meant for Caucasian skin tones and now you can buy whichever ethnicity shading you prefer?
 
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