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Rep your neighborhood in style

Print | Comments () Posted by Courtney Hollands August 10, 2007 05:30 PM

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I have a drawer full of t-shirts, some ironic, some cute, some leftover from races I've run (when they only had XXL shirts left). So, no, I don't technically *need* a new t-shirt.

But when I popped into Sherman Cafe in Somerville's Union Square -- my neighborhood -- the other day, I had to have this shirt:

This little beauty pays tribute to the 'Ville's culinary history -- because as everyone knows, Archibald Query invented gelatinous, sugary Fluff right in Union Square in 1917. (You knew that, right?)

I'm not going to lie, though. I sometimes wish I lived in East Cambridge -- because then I could wear this infamous tee:

Yep, Mayflower Poultry in Inman Square -- which opened in 1932 -- sells these tongue-in-cheek shirts in a variety of colors and styles: tank tops, vests, baseball jerseys. And if I ever decide I have too many t-shirts (never!), I can go for the "Live Poultry, Fresh Killed" thong.