The stuff of nightmares

1960's Green Giant canned sweet peas

I don’t know how old I was when the television introduced me to the “Green Giant” with his booming refrain, “HO HO HO! GREEN Giant!”

It must have been before they started calling him the JOLLY green giant. Only after inducing a nightmare that I recall decades later, where I was the size of an ant, and the green giant was trying to stomp me to death. This was years before they made a 55.5 foot tall fiberglass likeness of this monster in Blue Earth, Minnesota.

I am still not fond of peas. This song explains;

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