Zany-ism

In Florida

On first hearing the expression zany-burger, I flashed back to 1967, when Lester Maddox was governor of Georgia. Maddox made himself famous by dint of his ads in the Atlanta papers for his fried-chicken restaurant. The ads consisted, at great length, of outbursts like this:

"NAACP, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS, power-mad politicians, deceivers and other left wingers. Is it not true that our own Federal Government, that threatens to occupy the South, does not dare to send negro troops to be stationed in Iceland? . . . Breast and Wing 50¢"