Italy has a weird thing with pigeons. I dunno if its the volume of priceless marble statuary or what, but I have never seen so many pigeons in one place than Saint Marks Square. Dozens of people feeding them at all times, some people walked around with pigeons perched on every horizontal part of their body, and then you go to a restaurant and it's on the goddamn menu. Every city seemed to have a designated pigeon area where all the birds would gather, and it was always crawling with locals and tourists, and just about each one of these places also had someone peddling bird seed.
![image showing A Coca Cola advertisement made by spreading grains for pigeons in Saint Mark's Square, Venice, 1960 [800x556]](b1603611-9a89-5878-8c75-dcf8546815fa.jpg)
Cranky_Windlass on September 12nd, 2018 at 11:51 UTC »
I can see the headline now "Coke advertisement hits the streets, leaves foul smell in the air"
Edit: fowl to foul for sticklers
SuperluminalMuskrat on September 12nd, 2018 at 12:45 UTC »
Italy has a weird thing with pigeons. I dunno if its the volume of priceless marble statuary or what, but I have never seen so many pigeons in one place than Saint Marks Square. Dozens of people feeding them at all times, some people walked around with pigeons perched on every horizontal part of their body, and then you go to a restaurant and it's on the goddamn menu. Every city seemed to have a designated pigeon area where all the birds would gather, and it was always crawling with locals and tourists, and just about each one of these places also had someone peddling bird seed.
Daafda on September 12nd, 2018 at 12:45 UTC »
Was copied many years later -
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