I’m accustomed to seeing strange happenings around this town. Hell, every large urban area has it’s fair share of strange people and sitings. Baltimore has it’s homeless crazies , but DC has a special kind of crazy. DC has the tin foil hat crazies, the ultra religious nutjob crazies and the marketing crazies.
I’ve decided to start documenting this stuff photographically. It’s too damn hilarious not to show the world. Today’s strange siting will be the chicken dancing around for a group called Truthful Labeling Coalition. They’re pretty pissed about the loose use of the word “natural” when it comes to poultry. We all know that natural is used rather loosely these days. Sprite slapped an “all natural” label on its cans—”all natural flavors” yet “Contains no juice” Is there anything natural about artificially created from natural flavors added to make things taste, well…uh..natural? Weird.
Anyway, the truthful labeling people are pissed because poultry contains 800% added sodium. I don’t think the chicken ate that much salt on its own. Food for thought. No pun intended.
I wouldn’t have known a thing about this organization if it wasn’t for their catchy marketing scheme. It involved some poor sap in a chicken suit handing out fliers. If it was just some guy handing shit out, I would have passed by him and never gave a second look. BUT–some genius decided to make some poor saps dress like this: 
So I noticed. I took the photo and a flier. I thought it was so funny that I had to post it on my blog. Now, because of that act, a few people might be reading this post. If a few more read it, well..Truthful Labeling has done its job. Free marketing in the form of some guy in a chicken suit.
Utterly brilliant.
Tomorrow: I’ll attempt to take a picture of the Tin Foil hat guy who believes the CIA is behind EVERYTHING.