Sun, 16 Dec 2007

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Twice as strange

The other day I woke up thinking about fake vomit - the stuff you used to buy at the gag store at the state fair along with itching powder and whoopie cushions and those hand buzzer things. I awoke wondering whether fake vomit is still made in America or had it been shipped off to China along with all our other noble manufactories? And what did the Chinese think of it - the guys working in the fake vomit factory? (In my sophomore year of college we shook our heads when we learned that a classmate had dropped out of school to go to work at the onion ring factory.)

Waking up like that is strange enough. But later that same morning as I scanned the blogs, I found this story. Rest easy, America - not everything has been shipped to China.

Chicago's venerable gag factory Fun, Inc., was profiled in the Tribune last Wednesday. Fun, Inc. is the home of the finest hand-made fake vomit in the land, made tenderly by a company vomitmaster who keeps his secret recipe close to the chest.

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