{"id":631,"date":"2022-11-21T18:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-1\/?page_id=631"},"modified":"2022-11-21T18:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:20:53","slug":"chickens-and-jeans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/poetry\/chickens-and-jeans\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickens and Jeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Vern Fein<\/h5>\n<p>Colonel (wasn\u2019t a real one) Sanders\u2014failed.<\/p>\n<p>Farm hand, steamboat conductor, fireman,<\/p>\n<p>blacksmith assistant, railroad, too many to list\u2014<\/p>\n<p>fired from three of them for fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Wound up in a gas station where his wife<\/p>\n<p>made a finger-lickin\u2019 chicken recipe,<\/p>\n<p>which Harland pressured-cooked<\/p>\n<p>into a national franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Marketed it and sold it,<\/p>\n<p>called the gravy of the new company\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u201cwall paper paste\u201d and sued.<\/p>\n<p>Lucked into riches and fame.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leob\/Levi Strauss \u2014failed.<\/p>\n<p>His tarps out east<\/p>\n<p>too thin for wagon covers.<\/p>\n<p>Took his canvas and skills<\/p>\n<p>to the love of San Fran.<\/p>\n<p>Still too thin for the grizzled prospectors,<\/p>\n<p>they made fine pants,<\/p>\n<p>sold like KFC chicken.<\/p>\n<p>When he ordered more canvas,<\/p>\n<p>his brother sent him denim instead<\/p>\n<p>and Levis were born,<\/p>\n<p>later bell bottoms for hippies.<\/p>\n<p>Lucked into riches and fame.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bottle the elbow grease,<\/p>\n<p>keep on prospectin\u2019,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>throw on your jeans,<\/p>\n<p>grab a plate, dig in<\/p>\n<p>and enjoy your luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vern Fein Colonel (wasn\u2019t a real one) Sanders\u2014failed. Farm hand, steamboat conductor, fireman, blacksmith assistant, railroad, too many to list\u2014 fired from three of them for fighting. Wound up in a gas station where his wife made a finger-lickin\u2019 chicken recipe, which Harland pressured-cooked into a national franchise. Marketed it and sold it, called the gravy of the new company\u2014 \u201cwall paper paste\u201d and sued. Lucked into riches and fame. &nbsp; &nbsp; Leob\/Levi Strauss \u2014failed. His tarps out east too thin for wagon covers. Took his canvas and skills to the love of San Fran. Still too thin for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-631","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/631\/revisions\/632"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}