Here’s something I wrote up for the paper that might interest those of you who enjoy Speak E-Z’s:
A Bellingham restaurant will soon be coming out with its own barbecue sauce and is looking for customers to help design the label.
Dennis and Rosie Rayborn of Speak E-Z’s BBQ decided to bottle their sauce and sell it in local stores. After soliciting customer ideas in a contest, they come up with a name — Big D’s Bootleg BBQ Sauce (…….so good it should be illegal) and are now hosting a contest for a label design.
Whoever comes up with the winning design you will receive “All you can eat ribs” once a month for one year (or a substitute meal at equal or lesser value each month). The label and design will become property of the Rayborns.
The label design must be no more than 3 inches in diameter, 3 by 4 inches oval or rectangle. It can be monochrome or in color. Deadline to submit the label design is by 5 p.m. on Friday, July 24. The chosen design will be announced at 5 p.m. on Monday, August 10. Design entries can be dropped off at Speak E-Z’s BBQ, 2400 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA. 98225 during regular restaurant hours or mailed to the same address by the deadline. No purchase necessary. Don’t forget to include contact information.
Speak EZ is to BBQ as Bayou on Bay is to Cajun. Pseudo genre.