I'm not sure if this is the guy I'm thinking of, but at least one roadside vegetable seller does this sort of thing deliberately. After all, a sign with such... unique spelling is much more attention grabbing than a simple list of vegetables.
A lot of them do, especially the secretly commercial stands that are getting all too common. Like the cat says, "you are not immune to ~~propaganda~~ advertising".
The consultant and artist who conceived and realized that sign both went to Yale. The company who holds a regulatory-captured monopoly on all Texas roadside produce stands paid their agency $6.5M for this design.
And just because I made this up, doesn't mean it's not true.
People do it online all the time. Back in reddit days (pre-fediverse), I never saw a front page post without some grammatical or spelling mishap.
Oh no, rage bait posts have come to real life.
I know the exact spot this is from years ago. Its just north of a little town called Lindale (North of Tyler, south of Mineola).
Dudes hallopinos were actually pretty legit. He also had the sign misspelled so poorly because it "gets people's attention and makes em laugh".
Yeah, I was going to take a guess. As someone who has dealt with random farmers in the middle of nowhere, at least one of the two are going to be true:
There are a lot of places like this, where you’ll get some really high quality stuff for basically no money. As long as you’re friendly, they’ll usually give you some crazy good deals.
The best tamales you’ll ever taste? They come out of the back of a beat-up minivan in a hardware store parking lot, at the crack of dawn. Just cruise through a Home Depot lot as the sun is rising, and look for the car surrounded by people. Bring cash in small bills.
I was gonna say, you'd have to work hard to misspell this hard. Twas not accidental. 10/10 marketing!
dude's marketing worked on me. you can't misspeel that badly unintentionallly
Fucking hell "maters" 🍅
I mean, those are the ones actually spelled correctly for the regional dialect.
Tbh, excepting maybe bail peprs, I think they’re all written phonetically for the local accent.
Tried too hard. Anyone who's illiterate with that much phonetic knowledge would've gone for peper at least.
Zucchini
Potatoes + Tomatoes
Jalapenos
Bell Pepper
Thank you for the deciphering, I was completely lost at potat 'n' tomat
Reading the comments shows a lot of people do not understand satire, especially when the opportunity to talk trash about America/Texas/American education is on the line.
Poe's law. Maybe it's satire. Equally possible it's ignorance.
The AVERAGE reading level in the US is seventh grade. We're at the point where they might as well retranslate the Bible back to Latin because people can't barely read it.
Really puts the hick in vee-hickle
“Bail“ is a word.
Right, right. Came here to say this. Although of course it’s not the correct word. 🤣
The peppers are being held on bail. You're not purchasing them, you're bailing them out.
Hey, that's good marketing. It grabs attention and we're talking about it.
Fear not the man who has spelt 10000 words right but the man who sold their education to grow hallopinyos.
Bet those maters taste awesome tho...
Exact what I was thinking. The less literate the farmer, the better the yield!
Yet i know whats for sale.
Common Wittgenstein W.
So this shows that America is great again. Obvs.
Technically, “bail” is a word… it’s not the right word but it is a word.
Showing the brilliance of the American education system
And these stupid dipshit inbred mother fuckers are allowed to vote, which they do against their own interests by voting overwhelmingly Republican.
Yo they do this on purpose, you see it all the time with roadside stands. Weird and nonstandard signs are more attention grabbing and indicate a true smalltime business, so even commercial roadside stands are starting to have signage like this. You'd do well to give more credit to the intelligence of these people - the motivations behind why they're like this are invaluable when being forced to interact with them (be that interpersonally or politically), and can help a great deal when trying to preempt or mitigate the damage they can do.
Smh can't even spell gellapinnose right.
Translation please!
It's all spelled phonetically. Zucchini, potatoes ('taters), tomatoes ('maters), jalapenos, bell peppers.
I wasn't making any sense of that. Thank you.
It ain't got no gas in it!
This is some Timothy's Dexter "Pickle for the Knowing Ones" level spelling
Person drives up and starts bitching at this guy.
His response?
"I have no words." [Throws his hands up]
Why couldn't the señorita have babies?
Because her husband had a Hallowpiner!
....🦗🦗🦗... Ill see myself out.
I hope they accept crypto.
I bet that's some lit produce, maybe not much heat to those jalapenos though.
Technically there's 6 words, whether it's proper english word or not that's not the question.
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