They haven’t used that packaging since John Sainsbury brought the original shipment of oregano to the UK by sailboat in 1836.
Sainsbury’s have a lovely archive. They also post on Twitter. Send them this picture and they’ll have a look.
Taste it and find out! lol
OMG 🥴🥴
That’s a museum piece!
Is it the original oregano though? I refil my pots.
Well, it’s definitely dried!
I am all for the idea that dried herbs best before is kind of irrelevant, but this takes the biscuit. That said it’s cool to see the retro packaging
Smoke it
The price is the obvious clue, which others have covered. But also the presence / absence of a barcode can be a clue. I think it was really the early 80’s that barcodes in supermarkets become mainstream in the UK, so price not withstanding I’d have said 70’s/early 80’s latest.
But there’s another possible clue… expiration dates. Expiration dates were only introduced (anywhere) in the early 70’s, and think they were mainstream by mid/late 70’s … as it was seen as a sign of quality, they were adopted quickly.
So assuming it hasn’t just worn off, the lack of an expiry dates puts it probably no later than early/mid 70’s.
In fact, the archive has other images of packaging, some are dated more specifically than others. There is 1966 packaging that is very different, but other packaging labelled 60s that has the same 8d price. So I’m going with 67/68/69
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8d is 8 old pence, so pre-decimalisation. Which makes it no later than February 1971.
8d=3½p after 1971, or 28½p today based on inflation.
From the 8d… they’re definitely posh, if they were using oregano in the 60/70s!
That logo was used between 1960–1999 : [https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Sainsbury%27s](https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Sainsbury%27s)
They haven’t used that packaging since John Sainsbury brought the original shipment of oregano to the UK by sailboat in 1836.
Sainsbury’s have a lovely archive. They also post on Twitter. Send them this picture and they’ll have a look.
Taste it and find out! lol
OMG 🥴🥴
That’s a museum piece!
Is it the original oregano though? I refil my pots.
Well, it’s definitely dried!
I am all for the idea that dried herbs best before is kind of irrelevant, but this takes the biscuit. That said it’s cool to see the retro packaging
Smoke it
The price is the obvious clue, which others have covered. But also the presence / absence of a barcode can be a clue. I think it was really the early 80’s that barcodes in supermarkets become mainstream in the UK, so price not withstanding I’d have said 70’s/early 80’s latest.
But there’s another possible clue… expiration dates. Expiration dates were only introduced (anywhere) in the early 70’s, and think they were mainstream by mid/late 70’s … as it was seen as a sign of quality, they were adopted quickly.
So assuming it hasn’t just worn off, the lack of an expiry dates puts it probably no later than early/mid 70’s.
Finally, Sainsbury’s own archive has images that matches this pot, and dates them as being 60’s-70’s
https://www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/sapkcpro1144615-image-of-sainsburys-herbs/search/eweo-term:Herbs/sort_by/cache_sort/order/desc/c/2
In fact, the archive has other images of packaging, some are dated more specifically than others. There is 1966 packaging that is very different, but other packaging labelled 60s that has the same 8d price. So I’m going with 67/68/69
https://www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/search/eweo-term:Herbs/sort_by/cache_sort/order/desc?date_from=1960&date_to=1994&page=2
Before 1971, probably from the late 60s. The price label still uses pre decimal currency.