Healthy Kids Feast on Unhealthy Foods in Vintage Back-to-School Ads

A simpler time

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In the spirit of back to school, let's fatten up our kids and send them into anaphylactic shock! Seems that wasn't much of an issue in the '50s, when fall advertising aimed at lunch-packing moms revolved around peanut butter, dairy and sugar. The kids in the marketing were invariably trim and rosy-cheeked, never lactose intolerant or nut allergic. Yet Mrs. America, the domestic goddess of the time, stuffed those brown bags lovingly (irreconcilably?) with processed food.

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