Burma Shave Redux!
August 7, 2011 10:39 PM   Subscribe

Working at farmer's market and need Burma Shave-like jingles for products

I work at the Hollywood Farmer's Market selling organic yogurt, yogurt cheeses and lacto-fermented sodas. I am in a somewhat dead spot and want to bring more customers in, livening up the place in the process. I had the idea of putting out small sandwich boards with catchy Burma Shave-like jingles that i can rotate each week.....

Products

Yogurt is from Petaluma in Sonoma County. It is french yogurt made from pastured Jersey cows on the farm. The owners name is Benoit. There is plain and many fruit flavors

Plum
Blueberry
Strawberry
Honey
Meyer Lemon
Chocolate
Plain

Yogurt cheese is like a cream cheese

Plain
Basil Garlic

Lacto-Fermented Sodas are in the same ballpark as kefirs and kombucha.. It is not sweet or gamey like kombucha and not sour like kefir. It is light refreshing, effervescent and is more like a sports drink. It's makes a good cocktail mixer and my friends swear that it helps alleviates hangovers.

Flavors are....

Rose geranium
Lemon Verbana
Rosemary
Lavender

Burma Shave example....

Feeling blue
Like you've screwed the pooch
Don't feel sad.
Come drink our hooch

****** Sodas
posted by goalyeehah to Food & Drink (23 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
The Sun King says
"Yogurt, c'est moi"
Don't forget to eat
Benoit
posted by scody at 11:55 PM on August 7, 2011 [2 favorites]


kefir's sour
kombucha's sweet
but Lacto-Soda's
got them beat

a yogurt cheese
as your main squeeze?
try some today
it's sure to please
posted by benzenedream at 12:12 AM on August 8, 2011 [2 favorites]


Partied too much last night?
Feels like a hammer inside your cranium?
Ease that hangover pain
With some of our Rose Geranium.


Benoit.



You think you know yogurt
Because you've tried theirs
But Benoit's organic is made from pastured Jerseys
We're proud of our dairy-airs!
posted by Oriole Adams at 12:39 AM on August 8, 2011 [1 favorite]


A delightful spread
For your bread you seek?
Yogurt cheese is the answer
Stop by, don't be meek

BURMA YOGURT
posted by mdonley at 5:39 AM on August 8, 2011


A cornucopia of
Yogurty delights awaits
At the stall of Benoit
Don't be too late!
posted by mdonley at 5:41 AM on August 8, 2011


Fermentation
Doesn't just mean mold!
Experience
Yogurt delights untold!
posted by mdonley at 5:49 AM on August 8, 2011 [1 favorite]


To industrial yogurt
Don't succumb!
Try Benoit's
And raise your thumb!
posted by mdonley at 5:57 AM on August 8, 2011 [1 favorite]


From sunny Sonoma
Comes these tasty treats
"Happy cows?", you ask -
Well, ask their teats.
posted by mdonley at 5:59 AM on August 8, 2011 [1 favorite]


*come
posted by mdonley at 5:59 AM on August 8, 2011


Sir Francis Drake
Sailed right on by
Our lovely yogurt
He failed to try :(
posted by mdonley at 6:00 AM on August 8, 2011 [1 favorite]


Carmageddon?
Came and gone.
Your intestinal flora
Still soldier on.
posted by mdonley at 6:10 AM on August 8, 2011 [2 favorites]


Is it yogurt?
Is it cheese?
No, it's yogurt cheese.
posted by swift at 7:20 AM on August 8, 2011


ON WINDING ROADS. . .
 
 
posted by Herodios at 8:11 AM on August 8, 2011


AND STEEP INCLINES. . .
 
 
posted by Herodios at 8:11 AM on August 8, 2011


PLEASE WATCH THE TRAFFIC. . .
 
 
posted by Herodios at 8:11 AM on August 8, 2011


AND NOT THESE SIGNS. . .
 
 
posted by Herodios at 8:11 AM on August 8, 2011


MYANMAR SHAVE
 
 
posted by Herodios at 8:11 AM on August 8, 2011


Welcome to Tinseltown
Now try our yogurt:
"Two tubs up!",
Say Siscow and Egurt
posted by mdonley at 8:49 AM on August 8, 2011 [2 favorites]


Lactophiles
Don't need poetics
Just a tub of our yogurt
To escape the generics
posted by mdonley at 9:05 AM on August 8, 2011


Up the 210
Down the 105
Stick our yogurt in your tank
And see how far you can drive
posted by mdonley at 9:06 AM on August 8, 2011


Not feeling very poetic at the moment, but as someone who has worked many, many farmer's markets, craft shows, festivals, etc., I can tell you that two things that work are A) A big sign that says "FREE SAMPLES", with a sign pointing towards your booth, and B) Upbeat music. I like to use The Squirrel Nut Zippers. (The song in the last link takes a full minute to really get going, but it's worth it.)
posted by MexicanYenta at 10:07 AM on August 8, 2011


beware of baskets
while foodies browse
and try free yogurt
from our cows

BURMA YOGURT
posted by benzenedream at 10:24 AM on August 8, 2011


Response by poster: MexicanYenta, Hollywood is a bit of a different beast. I am already doing both. The alley is off the main path and traffic flow so I need to do as much as I can to steer them in our direction. Also people who do come for free here tend not to buy or are one-time buyers.
posted by goalyeehah at 12:08 PM on August 8, 2011


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