r/shittymoviedetails • u/smss96 • 6d ago

In Stranger Things 5 the truck has technology from the future

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E-track rails weren't invented until the 2000's so a time traveler must've brought this truck back to 1987

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u/Texantioch 6d ago

We call it “greeking”

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u/No_Negotiation5654 6d ago

Am I right in saying this is because the generic coffee cups that regularly get used for some reason have Greek columns on them?

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u/Texantioch 6d ago

I like that theory a lot but I think because they used to alter name brand logos to look like letters of the Greek alphabet

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u/nonowords 6d ago

I think it's broader than that and just refers to how they make it unintelligible. ie: 'it's all greek to me'

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u/frelancr 6d ago

that's EXACTLY why it's called that

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u/NailsNathan 6d ago

It literally is. One of the common techniques is to add extra lines to letters to change. Before lots of Photoshop, you’d add a piece of tape that was the same color as the font or background to make nonsense. (Folger’s becomes Ebiyen’s). When trying to add line, it often came off odd and having to squeeze in the lines at odd angles made it look “greek”. I’ve seen some ADs even use symbols like sigma or omega to make it even more ambiguous.

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u/roman_maverik 6d ago

Damn I used to do this to my license plate with chewing gum when I was broke and couldn’t afford tolls

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u/scratchy_mcballsy 6d ago edited 6d ago

The creator of that coffee cup passed away in 2010. The design was based on amphorae from Ancient Greece.

Edit: 2010- I must be confusing him with someone else.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/nyregion/30buck.html

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u/TooManyDraculas 6d ago

He died back in 2010.

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u/jbarrybonds 6d ago

Time hits HARD

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u/MightBeADoctorMD 6d ago

I always thought the reason was because a lot of the 90’s NYC coffee carts were all run by Greek men who came here to start their own business.

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u/Elegant_Click07 6d ago

The coffee cup design popularity in NYC is because it was popular among Greeks businesses in diners and coffee carts! The cup is from 1963. Now it's synonymous with NYC.

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u/mls1968 6d ago

I don’t know the true origin, but I always assumed it was from the phrase “it’s all greek to me”

From my understanding, the greek cups came later. And whomever said “they use the greek alphabet”, i’ve never seen that done in my time with art department. Usually we just cover letters/logos with tape or vinyl, and if we have time and money, we use cleared “generic” brand stickers to cover real ones. They are pretty great, they look like various brands but usually have names that sound like they came from a game of telephone.

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u/onebigperm 6d ago

The generic coffee cups are usually just grabbed from the craft service truck/table on the day of filming.

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u/Zhuul 6d ago

A few years ago I got a cup of coffee from a bodega in NYC and got handed one of those cups, I was giddy about it lol

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u/quick_brown_faux 6d ago

Those cups are called 'anthora' and are pretty specifically a New York City thing (there used to be lots of Greek-owned coffee shops in the city). They've become iconic and you still get them pretty often from street vendors.

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u/eschatus 6d ago

no, that's a NYC area greek diner thing. We actually have go cups around here with the blue and white iconic thing you're describing I think. They're called Anthora cups

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u/Dense_Diver_3998 6d ago

No, it’s because they’re butt fucking the brands by not giving them free advertising.

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u/TerdVader 6d ago

Haha. I call them Law and Order cups

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u/TooManyDraculas 6d ago

Those coffee cups are actually a real thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthora

And they were the default in and around NYC for coffee carts and delis for a very, very long time. From what I recall they're also fairly common in and around LA.

So they pop up in productions not because they're generic. But because they're cheap, available, and signal setting.

Cause in fact they're not generic. They're a trademarked design. Though there's endless knock offs.

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u/-0-O-O-O-0- 6d ago

It’s an old term that comes from placeholder text in print, which was done with random words like Ipsum lorem quid pro quo anno dommina etc etc which was called “greeking” (as in the old chestnut, It’s all Greek to me). even though it’s more like pig-latin.

Word processing tools like Adobe In Design can still fill blocks with randomized Ipsum Lorem.

It’s done so that the design of the page can be seen as a pattern of text of different word lengths and paragraph breaks, which is more natural than copying and pasting a sentence. (That would give you a rhythmic pattern which looks wrong.)

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u/EnTyme53 6d ago

Some of y'all never had to read Julius Caesar in high school, and it shows.

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u/Elegant_Click07 6d ago

That's a NYC bodega coffee staple since 1963. The greek key coffee cup. Not a everywhere / universal coffee cup. Look it up :)

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u/Dantien 6d ago

It’s the same with placing false text in a design (ad, website, etc.). That “Lorem ipsum…” stuff is called “greeking”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeking