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Is that an eggroll in your pocket?

Here in Houston we tend to do weird things to honor our sports figures. Most cities may hang a “Welcome to our Town” banner, but not us. No, Sir! Here we make large food items.

Witness this little snippet from the Chonicle’s Ken Hoffman describing the way the town would like to honor recent Chinese draftee, Yao Ming:

Chinese basketball giant Yao Ming is slowly making his way to the Houston Rockets, and Compaq Center is cooking up a welcome wagon for fans.

“We’re tinkering with a few ideas. So far, it looks like we’ll have a foot-long egg roll,” said Reggie Davis of Aramark, the company that handles the food concessions at Compaq Center.

“We’ve had meetings with a local egg roll company, and it’d be fun to get a super big egg roll to match our super big player. We’ve successfully created a 10-inch prototype that doesn’t flop over. But our goal is to make it a foot long.”

Nothing says “fun” like a stiff foot-long egg roll.

UPDATE: You know, I was just thinking. The last paragraph starts out with: “We’ve had meetings with a local egg roll company…”. Okay, how lousy must your life be if you a.) work for a “local” eggroll company (as opposed to those national eggroll conglomerates) and b.) you have to sit in a meeting where the agenda topic is to discuss the logistics of constructing a foot-long, fried, phallic “appe-teaser”?

August 20th, 2002 Posted by Rob | Potpourri | 2 comments