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1990s Anti-Proletarian Elves

Keebler Crayons
Our neighbor has been cleaning out her daughter’s bedroom. In an effort to waste nothing, Schäfer has been acquiring loads of blank notebooks, paints, and even a set of old crayons. They look like they’re from the 1980′s, but based off how old our friend’s daughter is, I’d say these are mid-90′s. Vintage indeed.

For your peace of mind, Keebler has never launched a line of colors in the Chinese market.

Or perhaps they did.

Perhaps the Keebler elves had a bad run of cracker dye that gelled too hard, but in an effort to turn a profit they exported them as crayons.

No, maybe not.

Maybe this is a bold example of the 1990′s fascination with the decadent west which led to the  inevitable rip-off of the bourgeois cracker-elf iconography of the time.

Marje must have made a killing.

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