Monday, September 17, 2012
Haiku winner: Carrie Willard!
Dale's Mega Foods! Dad's
office, doughnuts, flick rentals,
liquor store inside!
Really? The store was called "Dale's Mega Foods?" How can you not love that?
What Carrie does not reveal is the nature of her own job, even as a child, at Dale's Mega Foods. Because the store only sold mega food, that is, food which weighs over 9 pounds, it took the efforts of the whole family to locate such food and keep it in stock. Carrie scoured the nation looking for gigantic foods-- the 10 pound cheese wheel, the braunschweiger package that came with wheels, a 6-liter bottle of Pepsi... they had it all right there at Dale's Mega Foods.
The trick to running a Mega Food store, of course, is marketing to Packers' fans, who consume such things almost exclusively. Carrie was in charge of drawing them in, going to the effort even to dress as Bart Starr at one point to wave in traffic (though she wasn't much of a football fan, got confused, and dressed by mistake as Ken Starr, which was still somewhat effective).
So... what mega food would you want to buy?
office, doughnuts, flick rentals,
liquor store inside!
Really? The store was called "Dale's Mega Foods?" How can you not love that?
What Carrie does not reveal is the nature of her own job, even as a child, at Dale's Mega Foods. Because the store only sold mega food, that is, food which weighs over 9 pounds, it took the efforts of the whole family to locate such food and keep it in stock. Carrie scoured the nation looking for gigantic foods-- the 10 pound cheese wheel, the braunschweiger package that came with wheels, a 6-liter bottle of Pepsi... they had it all right there at Dale's Mega Foods.
The trick to running a Mega Food store, of course, is marketing to Packers' fans, who consume such things almost exclusively. Carrie was in charge of drawing them in, going to the effort even to dress as Bart Starr at one point to wave in traffic (though she wasn't much of a football fan, got confused, and dressed by mistake as Ken Starr, which was still somewhat effective).
So... what mega food would you want to buy?
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I'm bummed I didn't get in on this Haiku.
Do you remember "Shoeshine and Worms" on Jefferson? And Just down the street was a vendor of "Records and Hair Products".
Do you remember "Shoeshine and Worms" on Jefferson? And Just down the street was a vendor of "Records and Hair Products".
I'm bummed I didn't get in on this Haiku.
Do you remember "Shoeshine and Worms" on Jefferson? And Just down the street was a vendor of "Records and Hair Products".
Do you remember "Shoeshine and Worms" on Jefferson? And Just down the street was a vendor of "Records and Hair Products".
I actually went into Shoeshine and Worms once. They had both available-- it was truth in advertising.
It was not far from Jefferson's best party store, the Grand ShaSha.
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It was not far from Jefferson's best party store, the Grand ShaSha.
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