I'm not sure if this is the guy I'm thinking of, but at least one roadside vegetable seller does this sort of thing deliberately. After all, a sign with such... unique spelling is much more attention grabbing than a simple list of vegetables.
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I know the exact spot this is from years ago. Its just north of a little town called Lindale (North of Tyler, south of Mineola).
Dudes hallopinos were actually pretty legit. He also had the sign misspelled so poorly because it "gets people's attention and makes em laugh".
Yeah, I was going to take a guess. As someone who has dealt with random farmers in the middle of nowhere, at least one of the two are going to be true:
- That will be the best produce you have ever laid eyes on.
- The person misspelled things on purpose, to grab peoples’ attention.
- You’ll be able to fill an entire grocery bag with produce, for like $3.
There are a lot of places like this, where you’ll get some really high quality stuff for basically no money. As long as you’re friendly, they’ll usually give you some crazy good deals.
The best tamales you’ll ever taste? They come out of the back of a beat-up minivan in a hardware store parking lot, at the crack of dawn. Just cruise through a Home Depot lot as the sun is rising, and look for the car surrounded by people. Bring cash in small bills.
I was gonna say, you'd have to work hard to misspell this hard. Twas not accidental. 10/10 marketing!
dude's marketing worked on me. you can't misspeel that badly unintentionallly
Fucking hell "maters" 🍅
I mean, those are the ones actually spelled correctly for the regional dialect.
Tbh, excepting maybe bail peprs, I think they’re all written phonetically for the local accent.
Tried too hard. Anyone who's illiterate with that much phonetic knowledge would've gone for peper at least.
Oh they are bilingual.
Hallo Pinyo, wer auch immer du bist.

Zucchini
Potatoes + Tomatoes
Jalapenos
Bell Pepper
Thank you for the deciphering, I was completely lost at potat 'n' tomat
When you can't write in your native language but at least you own 12 guns and have a deregulated electrical grid.
"literally no words"
look inside
words

Letters, maybe. Words? That's debatable.
Reading the comments shows a lot of people do not understand satire, especially when the opportunity to talk trash about America/Texas/American education is on the line.
Too stupid to spot an obvious and funny marketing gimmick.
"Murica dumb!"
Poe's law. Maybe it's satire. Equally possible it's ignorance.
The AVERAGE reading level in the US is seventh grade. We're at the point where they might as well retranslate the Bible back to Latin because people can't barely read it.
“Bail“ is a word.
Fear not the man who has spelt 10000 words right but the man who sold their education to grow hallopinyos.
Hey, that's good marketing. It grabs attention and we're talking about it.
Bet those maters taste awesome tho...
Exact what I was thinking. The less literate the farmer, the better the yield!
It’s funny cause I can still read and understand what they are selling.
I can read every bit of it. Its really more phonetic than most road side produce signs around here.
I instantly forgot how to spell zookeene.
Badly written to get people to stop. Like “Graj sale”
Technically, “bail” is a word… it’s not the right word but it is a word.
Read this in maters voice
What's taters precious
Translation please!
It's all spelled phonetically. Zucchini, potatoes ('taters), tomatoes ('maters), jalapenos, bell peppers.
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