Ich liebe diese Taschen, ich finde sie so nostalgisch, aber meine ist schon bald verblasst. Was ist die Geschichte dahinter? Ich habe sie schon als Kind geliebt und liebe sie auch heute noch.
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Von CrabbyGremlin
Ich liebe diese Taschen, ich finde sie so nostalgisch, aber meine ist schon bald verblasst. Was ist die Geschichte dahinter? Ich habe sie schon als Kind geliebt und liebe sie auch heute noch.
https://i.redd.it/jk78dqx8vgmg1.jpeg
Von CrabbyGremlin
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Not really a story. Those were sold by a supermarket chain, Kaiser‘s Tengelmann, to show their commitment to protecting the environment and counter use of plastic bags. The chain no longer exists.
A campaign by a supermarket chain that no longer exists (Tengelmann or Plus) to encourage customers to use cotton bags and reuse them instead of taking a plastic bag every time.
Protect this bag with your life! It’s awesome 🙂
I have the same one!!
I’ve had it since ~~1998~~ oh, it was actually 1996! It’s a little grease-stained but I still use it.
Edit: Corrected the year!
In an attempt to reduce environmental impact and animal suffering, the Tengelmann chain banned frog legs and turtle soup from their shelves. This is why these animals kiss on the bag.
I have the style on a shopping cart coin from that era…it was even before Plus had „Die kleinen Preise“
Once upon a time… as plastic bags where still for free…
This gives me nostalgia, my mom used to have the same bag in the 2000s
[A German Punk Band sold these](https://krasserstoff.com/products/team-scheisse-team-scheisse-totebag-sfr) do with that information as you please. Just wanted to share it
Can’t really help for the origin, but it reminds me of German punk-rock band Team Scheisse:
https://share.google/wqYOfT5jt5qtNeWyV
Now that’s a bag I haven’t seen in a long while.
Kind of cute how relatively unimportant some issues were those days.
Fun fact: Someone bought the rights to the Plus brand last year and opened two new little markets in Dresden.
I wonder now if they will revive these bags some day too. [https://plus-supermarkt.de/](https://plus-supermarkt.de/)
Small addition to all the information others already stated.
Back then plastic bags were still very common in Germany – as everywhere else I guess. But using this reusable bags where promoted as more sustainable and thus “Gut für die Umwelt”.
As we see today this and other campaigns to raise awareness worked out. Nowadays using a reusable bags or your own backpack is very common.
Good old Tengelmann
You unlocked a childhood memory of mine 😭
Why does nostalgia hit so hard with this one?
The fact that you still use the shopping bags of your childhood really speaks for the cause!
Tengelmann and its discounter Plus stopped selling froglegs and turtle soup long time ago.
This reusable bag reminders of this
wow, last time i saw them was in the 90s