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MILD CHEDDAR … with llamas

3/20/2017

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As a graphic artist who’s worked in a range of industries including food packaging, nutrition supplements, and pharmaceuticals, things like this give me flashbacks. I can hear the meeting now…

Random voices in no particular order, probably 5-7 people at the table, including the graphic designer who doesn’t say a thing but knew this would happen and makes I can’t believe this, I told you this would happen eyes at the other designers the whole time.
  • “Mild cheddar. With llamas!”
  • Awkward silence.
  • “Um… Shouldn’t it say, ‘with llama-shaped pasta?’”
  • “Why? What do you mean?”
  • “How about ‘llama shapes?”
  • “It looks like we’re saying there’s llamas in the mac & cheese.”
  • “Nobody’s going to think there’s llamas in the mac & cheese!”
  • “If spaghetti sauce says ‘with mushrooms’ you bet your ass there’s mushrooms in there.”
  • "Llamas are not comparable to mushrooms!"
  • “Nobody’s going to think there’s llama in the mac & cheese!”​
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  • “You know we asked about this on the first round of design drafts.”
  • “What if someone *wants* llama in their mac & cheese and is disappointed they’re only getting llama pasta? You know, those people are out there.”
  • “Nobody wants llamas in the mac & cheese, either!”
  • “We asked you with the first drafts!”
  • “When? I don’t remember that!”
  • (*copy of first draft appears on table, with editorial comments about whether or not to add pasta or shape or both, initialed and signed*​)
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  • “I don’t remember that.”
  • “Can we make a change?”
  • “We’ve already sent it to the printer.”
  • “Who approved this?”
  • “You all signed off on it last week.”
  • “Where’s (art director)?”
  • “She was at the printer this morning, doing a press check on this. By now they’ve already printed 50,000 boxes.”
  • “This is why we wanted to have this meeting two days ago.”
  • “Printers can’t just yank a job off the schedule with hardly any notice.”
  • Awkward silence.
  • “What’s the worst that can happen?”
  • “Someone complains that there’s not any llama in there?”
  • “We get a call from PETA?”
  • “Some smartass graphic designer sees it and dedicates a blog entry to it?”​​​
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I mean, look at that llama. That little llama is nervous. You *know* something's just not right. Don’t worry, little llamas. I see your plight. I'm looking out for you.
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3/21/2017 07:19:23 pm

Hilarious!

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    ANGI SHEARSTONE

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