The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...

... but it will be marketed as a hot sauce!

Former Black Panther associates of Huey P. Newton, the late co-founder of the militant organization, are seeking to trademark the phrase "Burn Baby Burn" so they can slap the words--long associated with conflagrations that left cities like Watts and Newark in cinders--on hot sauce.

What's next? A Weather Underground meteorological service? Oh, wait.


M E-L posted this on July 25, 2005
It is filed under Odds & Ends

It is also indexed with the following tags: 1960s | Black Panthers | Huey P. Newton | Advertising | Badvertising | Political Marketing | Food |

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