We're number one! We're number One! American fake vomit best in world.

[ohiosmith]

U.S.-made fake vomit takes the cake
By Kevin Pang

Chicago Tribune

ANTONIO PEREZ / MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

"It's the best vomit on the market," says Graham Putnam, president of Fun Inc., shown with some of the company's many prank toys.

CHICAGO — The building holds a secret.

A vile and totally eeeewwwww secret, one that brings together 12-year-olds and 12-year-olds at heart.

From the outside, it is another two-story brick warehouse on Chicago's West Side. Step inside, and visitors return to a certain back-of-the-comic-books kind of American childhood.

The secret is this: 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 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. The building, near Grand and Major avenues in the industrial Hansen Park neighborhood of Chicago, is where springs were once manufactured and, later, Cracker Jack prizes.

more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2004083031_fakepuke200.html

[billyskank]

1. I really love the way Americans are so into their stuff.

Best damn fake sick in the world!! :bounce:

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. The Ukrainian whoopee cushion still beats us out.

We must try harder!

[ohiosmith]

3. You are such a party pooper.

[no name no slogan]

4. "US Fake Vomit: Lead-Free Since '83"

[Roon]

5. The most fun I had with a comic book gag was this

I put it on my Grandmother's brand new desk and about gave her a heart attack. I also put it on my ex's brand new bedspread. He flipped out!!

My second favorite comic book gag are the fake lottery scratch tickets that make people think they won 50,000. LOL

[Deja Q]

6. Meh, they'll offshore it to China, put in something toxic, and then we'll vomit for real.

:shrug:

[Critters2]

7. That's right!! Better than that Chinese crap!

Err, I mean puke.