I mean… you’d be scared not to, wouldn’t you? Fucking thing looks like it’d tear your throat out if you got your pineapples from elsewhere… Saw this posted on Bluesky; I don’t know the exact date of it, but evidently it’s a product of the Empire Marketing Board, part of their “Buy Empire” scheme, and the EMB only lasted from 1926 to 1933 so it has to date from then. Which is why there’s a certain bleak irony in them using that tiger as their image of choice, cos I didn’t know if tigers were especially associated with Singapore (cf. how the ad for Australian sultanas on the EMB Wiki entry used kangaroos), so I did a bit of research… and, well, the last known wild tiger in Singapore was shot in 1930. They’d been a menace for a century, so there were considerable rewards offered by the government for them, meaning they were almost wiped out by the later 1800s, and then finally went extinct just a few years before the EMB itself did.
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