 Hello... Yes - re the elephant sculpture- It's the top of one of the animal-headed soft drink containers. I found it as I was waiting for the crowd to clear-out after the Ringling Red Unit.. last Sat. evening so I don't know how much they're charging. I'll find out.. as I'm curious. The problem with it is... if you smell the plastic it has a very strong chemical smell. Almost smells like it's toxic!! And.. I'm sure most adults don't smell it.. and give it to their children .. not knowing. Thinking about writing to the Show.. The cotton candy is $12.. as stated a couple weeks ago..but with it the kids also get a fairly popular high-crowned clown hat. No.. I didn't see Bello hair for sale. As you may know..they close the first half of the show with the Bellobration number and that's when they take the audience around in teacups amidst the blaring music.. and confetti!! I went over to the Garden this afternoon to get a ticket for closing night - April 15th but the lines were too long to wait. Not necessarily for the Circus.. as there are basketball and hockey games going on as well during Ringling's run. I'll get over again soon. regards..... klsdad "Having once been a candy butcher myself, another thing they might try that is quite profitable, is when preparing hot dogs, secretly place your forefinger into the bun, lavishly cover it with mustard and onions, wrap it in a paper napkin and then with a flourish (as a distraction) quickly withdraw your finger as it is handed to the customer. As an added bonus, if the recipiant complains that he didn't get a weenie, you sternly state, "You must have dropped it on the floor!" and maybe even sell him a second one." Buckles  |
Friday, April 06, 2007
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I guess the concession people do not care or are unaware that Ringling has only Asian elephants and publicly declare that fact and here we see an African symbol. Maybe they got them cheap overseas.
The elephant container is the new SNO CONE CUP, it retails for $15.00.
BUCKLES I REMEMBER IN ORDER TO MAKE THE HOT DOG SALE RUN SMOTHLY YOU NEED ONE HOT DOG LEFT ON THE FLOOR IN FRONT OF THE STAND AT ALL TIMES
As a kid in movie theatre concession stands I learned that when the hot dogs had been on the rolling cooking bars all day and looked all shriveled up, you soaked them in ice water and they looked as good as new!
Gee - do you think the Ringling marketing people know the difference between Asian and African elephants????
:-)
Cindy Potter
J. G. said.....on the Great Circus Parade showgrounds a few years ago, a well known circus owner was talking about his early career on the Cole show. He was working in the concession department and his boss, whose name slips my memory, noting that the show was having a slow day told the young man to bury the hot dogs - it was before the days of refrigeration and they couldn't keep the hot dogs for the next town. As evening rolled around a large crown came on the lot and the young man was asked where did you bury the hot dogs? He replied -"under a tree on the lot". His boss said "get out there and dig up those hot dogs ". He did so and brought them back to the midway diner, washed them up and the hungry crowd had dogs for dinner.
Does anyone know who the young concession man was? Not Buckles.
Was it Jack Mills?
Probably not old enough but maybe D. Rawls
GOD you guys!! I have to eat two turkey hotdogs every day as part of my special diet. I will never look at them the same way again. Now I will really get sick everytime one goes down. Thanks a bunch.
Rebecca , if the hotdogs were in the ground , just think of them as vegetables ,and you won't have any problem -- fact !
Hint, his show played Milwaukee Parade circus showgrounds and he had a nationally known singer on the show.
J. Goodall, give my best to Allen Hill. Wade Burck
Wade, you win the prize. The singer was "Tiny Tim" and the show was Great American Circus.
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