Van Halen Lyrics on Cheese Packaging
If Van Halen wasn't talkin' 'bout love in their 1978 hit song, maybe they had cheese on the brain? On this plastic container of cheese chunks found by our friend Homesick Texan at a New York market, the band's famous lyrics appear above the barcode. "I've been to the edge, and there I stood and looked down / lost a lot of friends there, baby, I got no time to mess around."
Clearly, the lyrics refer to the edge of the grocery aisle, where they lost their pals after buying feta. The song was known for being very raw; much like this "assorted" pack of uncooked cheese.
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7 Comments:
I LOVE it! I've always wondered what take so long when I watch the guy with the label machine putting out the merchandise. Now I know. He's typing song lyrics in there.
breadchick at 12:07PM on 07/24/08
This is by far the most random thing I've ever seen and I'm so happy to have seen it!
ellis at 12:48PM on 07/24/08
That is the best! You've got to love a grocery clerk with a sense of humor.
VerasTastyFreeze at 1:31PM on 07/24/08
hahaha! I go to that grocery store every single day--literally. It's a block down from my work and I spend more time there than in my cubicle. I recognized the packaging and font in the photo before I read the blurb, and I'm not at all surprised that the guys who run that cheese department would have thrown down some Van Halen lyrics.
sweeetheartfever at 1:58PM on 07/24/08
love the sense of humor, hate that a grocer would have the nerve to charge 7.99/lb for assorted cheese ends.
also -- i think hagar-era van halen would have been a better fit for this particular product.
sloppy at 2:11PM on 07/24/08
Heh. It's not that hard to do actually. The boys in the Butcher Block had "Stairway to Heaven" scrolling on the scales you see how much the meat weighs on for awhile. Instead of the "Thank you for shopping...blah blah blah."
feriorrenna at 2:37PM on 07/24/08
I see I'm not the only one who shops at the Westside Market.
JungMan at 4:45PM on 07/24/08