I wouldn’t know those menu choices hold no appeal for me. Happ圜ow, the world’s largest vegan/vegetarian/vegetarian friendly restaurant and health food store has used a Purple Cow logo for more than 20 years. Moving on, in a significant improvement, Purple Cow became an ice cream flavor created by tossing chunks of white and milk chocolate into black raspberry ice cream - on the menu at Lickety Split ice cream emporiums (wherever they are). The Purple Cow is the mascot for Williams College and for one of the four classes at Russell Sage College. His was not the last word as no good deed goes unpunished (or ignored). No serial killers named Burgess were ever apprehended. We can only assume he was just kidding but the admonition apparently worked. He retaliated two years later with: “Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background That I Rue.” His revenge went: “Ah yes, I wrote ‘The Purple Cow’ - / I’m sorry now I wrote it / But I can tell you anyhow/ I’ll kill you if you quote it.” Gelett became exasperated with the success of his little rhyme far too many people brought it to his attention. He wrote, “I never saw a purple cow,/ I hope to never see one / But I can tell you, anyhow,/ I rather see than be one.” The Purple Cows they made were a concoction of vanilla ice cream and grape juice and probably tasted like that.īack to Gelett (who probably never envisioned his poem inspiring a soft drink), in 1895, he published a poem in a little five-cent mag called The Lark. On the south side of 140 pounds at 6 feet tall I could eat that and still sleep soundly - today I am on the north side of that weight and wouldn’t sleep a moment without the assistance of a bottle of Tums.
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