CHICAGO: U.S.-made fake vomit takes the cake - (The Seattle Times)
December 20, 2007 – 7:22 pmFrom the outside, the building is just another two-story brick warehouse on Chicago’s West Side. But it’s the world capital of fake vomit, where it’s still made the old-fashioned American way, ladle by ladle, formed and coagulated for the next generation of pranksters and troublemakers.
Helping put the ick in America since 1941, Fun Inc. is, according to this story, a repository of practical jokes, magic tricks and gag items from chattering teeth to hot pepper gum, oversize sunglasses to oversize toothbrushes to oversize anything.
Fake vomit is serious business.
The story explains that in the 1960s, upward of 60,000 fake vomits were produced annually. These days, Fun Inc. brews up the recipe only a few times a year, making around 7,000 latex barfs annually, as tourist gift shops and joke stores look overseas for cheaper versions (though for $15 a dozen wholesale, Fun Inc.’s prank puke is still a heck […]
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