Gifts from the past

The notorious "corporate crate" is the gift that most corporates donate to their workers for Christmas. The crate contains typically foods like oil, pasta, rice, wine, Christmas sweets (panettone, pandoro...), biscuits and so on. This kind of gift is a heritage of the sixties economic boom, after the difficult time of second world war Italy begun an economic raise (triggered by Marshall plan) that generated abundance of food. In the sixties the food included in the given crate was really used as a sustaining mean, now such food is often wasted because it is redundant.
Fortunately things are changing (slowly indeed) and today corporates are starting use the money needed for crates to fund charity foundations and reporting their activity to employees and explaining the destination of the money previously used to buy strange delicatessen like cellar seasoned Monteparruco salami, red wine aged inside Piandelvoltone ebony barrels, panettone with rare Rivadellospavaldo chocolate drops and Carribean rum flavoured cream...