It’s lovely outside and I have other things I need to attend to, like the patio at the Cadillac Lounge in a few hours. So I’m going to take this opportunity to sweep out the overlooked corners of the IFtaGH desk and give you some ideas that are too small (or possibly too borderline offensive) to warrant their own individual posts.
#18: The Ramons
Spanish-language punk rock tribute band Interested? You could be the next Dred Zeppelin.
#19: The Jerk Store
Why is there no Caribbean restaurant called this?
#20: The Half-Indian Half-Indian
There’s no section of IFtaGH constitution that says everything has to be an idea for a product or store or anything. Literary characters are totally allowed. So maybe this is an idea for a character in a short story. Or a screenplay. Yes, a screenplay that sells for millions of dollars (of which you will send us a cut, of course) and grosses millions more at the box office (see previous parentheses). Maybe the character is someone whose father is a Native Canadian and his mother’s from Mumbai? Maybe vice versa? Maybe genius? No. Definitely genius.
(And I realize this isn’t the most culturally-sensitive thing I’ve ever proposed. But “The mixed South Asian/Native Canadian” doesn’t have the same ring to it. And if such a person does exist, I would be willing to bet you money it’s how they describe themselves.)
#21: Moustache fries
Not that kids need more inducements to eat fried (or oven-fried) potatoes or anything, but marketing a tasty selection of moustache styles to hold up to your mouth before snarfing them down is money in the bank. McCain, I’m looking at you. Also, you could open a roadside stand and sell t-shirts that read, “Moustache Fries: 5”.
Ideas Free to a Good Home is a clearinghouse of ideas we’re too lazy to develop ourselves.
