| I loved this
image from the moment I saw it...I used it as the theme for the second inner label for all
the Five Cent Cigar Co Boxes....I made a shirt out of it....I can't believe anyone could
make such a great label...thank you, American Litho and Witch & Schmitt the 2 names on
the label.... Every July, at Fort Foster
at the end of Kittery Point, is a festival by the sea... Venders, performances and
fireworks are the order of the day. Several years ago, one of the venders was a
traveling food booth that serves....Buffalo burgers...hamburgers made of Buffalo
meat....OK, I know it sounds like it should be illegal but what the heck.....there is or
was a famous place in San Francisco that did the same...
Anyway, I'm wearing one of my shirts...which one...American
Stock...of course. I walk up to the trailer thinking this is a
no brainer sale...what a natural...they had to buy them...heck, I'm sure they would want to sell them
right next to the Buffalo burgers in every street Fair from Kittery Point to Toledo,
OH.......
I buy a burger ...I strut my chest....do these
Troglodytes notice...not a blink....
....OK, so, they need some direction...some
leadership...some less subtle salesmanship...
"What do you think?" I ask, pointing at
my shirt...talking to what appears to be the lead Buffalo (yes, they had that Beefy look
too)
"Huh"
Not a movement..... not a recognition...nothing to
acknowledge that this incredible shirt offered endless marketing potential....
"I make these" ...I offer proudly
to Buffalo Man, like a 4 year old kid trying to impress a stranger with a drawing he just
made.....dumb grin and all...
Nothing.....
I sit at the table by the trailer. I eat their stinking,
lousy, over cooked, anti-environmental burger and pray at least one family member was born
with a functioning brain....
I crumble up the empty food basket, the empty soda can
and chuck it in the trash.....
...go figure.......
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