Cow Parade

[gehayi]

The Cow Parade is in town.

This sounds silly, but that's what it is called. It's a traveling collection of statues of cows and bulls. Unpainted statues are sponsored by local businesses (they attract attention, so it's good advertising) and are painted by local artists.

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[alliterator]

How... interesting.

There's a gas station here that has a wooden statue of a cow in front of it. It always looked weird to me, but then again the so does the statue of Mark Twain that's outside the library.

[gehayi]

Well, odd really. And probably more interesting to me than to anyone else.

At least no one has gone so far as to put a Cow Parade statue outside of a gas station hereabouts.

[gehayi]

Agreed. It's utterly ludicrous that people don't know where beef, leather and milk come from. And we have a lot of small dairy farms around here, as well as Capaco (a supermarket with its own indoor slaughterhouse and outdoor petting zoo), so I don't understand the disconnection in people's minds between cows and food. Very strange.

You can tell your SO that full-fat milk isn't all bad--it's part of the ketogenic diet, a high-protein, high-fat diet that helps control some forms of epilepsy.

[debxena]

We recently had the cow parade on here in Auckland. They seemed to get moved randomly around the CBD, so anytime we went into the city we were stumbing over them. Made for a nice change compared to some of the odd sculptures we have around.

[ihlanya]

Just wandered in from deleterius....

Where I grew up in Johannesburg, there was a bottle store called Jumbo's and it had a massive pink elephant on the roof. Seriously freaked me out as a kid.