Nashville, TN


Big burger in a small space. And it’s a squirmy one, with three layers of meat and FOUR layers of lettuce and a ton of tiny mushrooms maybe. Bacon is another tricky thing to paint.  Love the handling of the ice cream cone — the dots, the lines. Below is the other side of the same place. There are a lot of signs that make the claim of the “biggest” burger available within a certain region. This might be the first example of onions being shown as lovely naturalistic rings. This burger has only one meat and two layers of lettuce, but it’s got a  lot of personality.

 

New Orleans, Louisiana

chartres, nola

That sandwich reaches the vanishing point.  I was giving a presentation about the Hand-Painted Food Signs Archive recently and my neighbor from across the street came to the talk.  He has a collection of photographs of signs using superlatives.  This one would work for both collections.

(Chartres Ave.)