Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 13, 2009

I forgot what Chesty used to sell. Potato chips?

Under Chesty’s chesty chest it says: Chesty potato chips, 1945.

I love all the bright colors!

Thank you, Pained Smile. I missed the fine print.

I don’t understand why a kid with a big chest is a good spokesperson for potato chips. Eat our chips, get COPD?! Maybe Chesty should have sold candy cigarettes.

COPD?

Were Chesty Potato Chips a regional or a national brand? I’ve never heard of them.

COPD=Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. I believe it gives sufferers a barrel-shaped chest.

In Australia, Chesty sells singlets. See http://www.bonds.com.au/#aboutUs Currently he is the nemesis of those who oppose textile industry jobs being exported to sweatshop countries.

What’s a singlet? (It sounds like a single Chiclet).

“Chesty” Puller as a child?

If so WonderWarthog than he is in his larval stage.

yes! I forgot about Chesty potato chips! they were distributed in the midwest (in Indiana, at least) up until the sixties or seventies…they sponsored many kid’s shows on the local tv channel–gone the way of Sap’s pastries and Omar Bread and Polk’s milk

Singlets are what my son would call wife-beaters …sleeveless tee-shirts

Gasp!

Well, well, his old friend “whoevertheheIIitis”.

Later in life he stopped using his nickname and just went by chesterfield. He was quite the couch potato.