The Advice of the Day at Almanac.com is:
“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” —Mark Twain
Which reminded me of this: when I was working in the composing room of the Peterborough Examiner, I was assigned the weekly task of pasting up the ad for the Farm Boy produce market. The Farm Boy ad consisted of a 4-inch wide column the entire length of a newspaper page that listed off the prices of whatever fruits or vegetables were on special that week, along with a tiny photo of each.
On the shelf above one of my coworker’s stations was a collection of various pictures of various fruits and vegetables, and from that collection I drew whatever I needed to compose the ad.
Except I could never find a picture of brussels sprouts.
So every time that brussels sprouts were on special, I needed to find a picture of a cabbage, mount it on the large-format camera, set the camera to reduce to about 15% of the original size, and then shoot four or five copies. I then arranged the little cabbages together to form a rather realistic looking set of brussels sprouts.
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Oh, Peter! You too!? What has
Oh, Peter! You too!? What has journalism come to? Well, it just shows that such media deceptions predate photoshop.
Not to mention the damage
Not to mention the damage your deceptions were liable to cause to a young cabbage’s body image. Such concerns start long before a cabbage heads off to college.
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