This post was inspired by blog Comeback Kid Mr. Toast.Recently, I got a hold of the book Fail Nation by the Failblog.org Community. I wanted to be above laughing my ass off at it, but I simply wasn't. In fact, I found myself reminiscing about this:
Once, I was driving past a Taco Bell near my home. Apparently, a dish known as the Zesty Bowl was the favored menu item at that time. There were some banners I saw in the window about it. The sign in front of the restaurant read "Stop in and Try our Zesty Owls!"
Maybe it was the enthusiasm of the sign that got me. Maybe it was that I could see some distracted motorist scolding his kid for asking to try some Zesty Owls. Whatever the reason it thrilled me so, it has stayed with me all this while. And now there is an entire book dedicated to just this sort of thing. I'll never get any work done now.
5 comments:
Zesty owls. Pretty funny. Zesty definitely has a sort of "trying way too hard" connotation to it.
I'll have to get ahold of a copy of Fail Nation. I need to laugh my ass off.
i always wonder whose job it is to make sure those signs are done correctly.
I just smoked a Zesty Bowl!
Niiiiice! Exxxxcelllent!!
I see those zesty owls every now and then here in Oregon, we have plenty of zesty owls living in empty barns.
Mrs. Slug
Great photo
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