Back to talking Kansas
So, here's a truly Kansas experience.
Shortly after i moved here i started seeing these trucks all over the place. Kansas and Oklahoma are rife with them. Well, ok, they're not rife, especially in the city of Wichita. But if you drove around outside of the cities for more than a week, i guarantee you would see one of these license plates.
Beef.
No. BEEF.
Just Beef! What?? Who's beef? Why should i care? Are you just stating a preference over chicken?
These plates are always on trucks. Without fail.
Big trucks. Usually with some kind of brush guard on the front and tires a little too big for the wheel wells.
Jeff will post a comment that they actually say more than BEEF. Something like the Oklahoma Beef Processor's Union or something. But that's not really the message they're sending. Because you don't see the rest of what the plate says. You just see BEEF.
And i think that's freaking hilarious.
Shortly after i moved here i started seeing these trucks all over the place. Kansas and Oklahoma are rife with them. Well, ok, they're not rife, especially in the city of Wichita. But if you drove around outside of the cities for more than a week, i guarantee you would see one of these license plates.
Beef.
No. BEEF.
Just Beef! What?? Who's beef? Why should i care? Are you just stating a preference over chicken?
These plates are always on trucks. Without fail.
Big trucks. Usually with some kind of brush guard on the front and tires a little too big for the wheel wells.
Jeff will post a comment that they actually say more than BEEF. Something like the Oklahoma Beef Processor's Union or something. But that's not really the message they're sending. Because you don't see the rest of what the plate says. You just see BEEF.
And i think that's freaking hilarious.
posted by ellie at 10:19
1 Comments:
As foreseen, here goes:
This shot was taken in Blackwell, Oklahoma. The reason she doesn't see them in Wichita is that they're an Oklahoma thing.
The license plates are displayed by members of the Oklahoma Beef Council.
In full (which you can't make out well because this is a blurry pic from my cell phone, it says:)
MAY WE SUGGEST
BEEF
OKLAHOMA BEEF COUNCIL
I will fully admit that for a long time, I was more than a bit bemused by a bunch of people who had license plates that seemed to just say BEEF. And it's STILL chuckleworthy that there's something called the Oklahoma Beef Council. But they take themselves very seriously.
In fact, if you want to read all about them:
Oklahoma Beef Council
Now that I've discharged my Constitutionally mandated duty, back to whatever it is I'm doing when dutyless. :)
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