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1. Daryl Scroggins on January 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

   Sounds like you are going all Cormac McCarthy on us. Were there tire marks on it? Did it come with a good deal on a grinder? Roll’a sheep guts for casings…?

2. Deron Bauman on January 12th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

   vacuum packed, boxed in screen-printed card board. BUT! the guy who sold it had been a carny AND when I asked to see the brochure, his sidekick handed it to him, not to me. no eye contact. no acknowledgment. it was pretty cool.

3. Sheila Ryan on January 12th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

   I don’t know why (well, yes I do), but this reminds me of one of my favorite commercial signs. As you drive north on the main route into Cairo, Illinois, one of the first businesses you will see is a cafe (as in: family restaurant) whose sign boasts “Government-Inspected Meat”.

4. Sheila Ryan on January 14th, 2008 at 11:21 am

   Deron, I’m curious. How did you know that the principal meat-seller had been a carny? Did he tell you? Did the truck bear traces of carny origin? Did you recall him as the guy who cranked up the Tilt-a-Whirl last time they set up a carnival in the parking lot at Hampton and Fort Worth Avenues?

5. Cindy Scroggins on January 14th, 2008 at 11:33 am

   Mizabe izits bizecause thizey wizere tizalkin lizike thizis.

6. Deron Bauman on January 14th, 2008 at 11:55 am

   His last name was Keeton. My folks have a farm in Fannin county next to some cattle people named Keeton. I asked if he was from Fannin county. He said, ‘no, but when I was with a carnival the guy who checked my permit up there’s last name was Keeton’.

   He was from Hillsborough.

   Y’all.

7. Sheila Ryan on January 14th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

   The carny Keeton occupied the permit-checking Keeton while the sidekick was rustling stock from the cattle Keetons.

   Was it vacuum-packed beef you bought from those two guys?

8. Deron Bauman on January 14th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

   yep.

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