It's no secret that we love plaid. We have plaid tins, suitcases, and blankets. Part of the thermos collection is plaid (but that's for another day). But yesterday, while I was searching for a cute vintage cook-out image, I found this:
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In the name of all things holy and plaid,
is that a grill? A
PLAID portable grill????? My gasp of joy was so big, I'm pretty sure NASA registered the sudden formation of a low pressure system right above my house. I wanted to fall to my knees in the street and scream, "Why have we never found one of these?"
So I looked online for some more, and they are
tricky. We have one of these (in a different plaid):
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| Vintage plaid Skotch cooler, on Etsy |
But look at this grill:
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| Sold on Etsy |
With the lid on, they would look the same! And since we already have a cooler, we try to make ourselves walk right by the others that we see. So, we might have been passing up plaid grills for years!
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| Sold on Ebay |
Here is a grill actually being used (while surrounded by its plaid brethren)! I want to go on a picnic right now!!!
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And then I found some more....
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| Sadly, someone has killed this one.... (Sold on Ebay) |
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| Sold on Ebay |
This one is cleverly disguised as a picnic hamper. We've probably lost out on a fair amount of these over the years, too. In the infamous words of Pepe Le Pew,
le sigh....
But this one is the coolest:
I must have one of these oval altars to the plaid gods. I wouldn't use it, partially for fear of setting my hair on fire, but I could pretend to make hamburgers on it. Just listen to my sizzle sounds: sssssssssssss!
And, since I love plaid junk, I couldn't resist pulling some pictures of non-grill items that make me think of food in the park, just for the heck of it:
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