Moo & Oink
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Moo & Oink was a South Side Chicago, Illinois
-based grocery store
chain
and wholesaler that catered to the inner-city community and south suburbs. Originally named the Calumet Meat Company, the company was renamed Moo & Oink in 1976.
It became well known for its odd late-night television commercials that ran in the 1980s and mid 1990s, usually featuring dancing people in cow and pig
costumes. The commercials often featured a jingle, that roughly went as follows: "Moo and Oink! Moo Moo Moooooooooooooo & Oink!" In 2005, Tina Fey
and Amy Poehler
sang the Moo and Oink jingle on the "Weekend Update" portion of Saturday Night Live
in order to prove to Scott Podsednik
that they were native Chicago White Sox
fans.
Moo & Oink is also famous for its Chicago-style hot links and hand-cleaned chitlins.
In April 2010, they revealed a new company logo, replacing the classic cartoon-ish cow and pig logo with a logo featuring animated but realistic looking animals.
All Moo & Oink stores closed in 2011, after the company went into Chapter 7 bankruptcy, though there is interest in buying and resurrecting the company.
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
-based grocery store
Grocery store
A grocery store is a store that retails food. A grocer, the owner of a grocery store, stocks different kinds of foods from assorted places and cultures, and sells these "groceries" to customers. Large grocery stores that stock products other than food, such as clothing or household items, are...
chain
Chain store
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and wholesaler that catered to the inner-city community and south suburbs. Originally named the Calumet Meat Company, the company was renamed Moo & Oink in 1976.
It became well known for its odd late-night television commercials that ran in the 1980s and mid 1990s, usually featuring dancing people in cow and pig
Pig
A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the Suidae family of even-toed ungulates. Pigs include the domestic pig, its ancestor the wild boar, and several other wild relatives...
costumes. The commercials often featured a jingle, that roughly went as follows: "Moo and Oink! Moo Moo Moooooooooooooo & Oink!" In 2005, Tina Fey
Tina Fey
Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer, known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live , the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, and films such as Mean Girls and Baby Mama .Fey first broke into comedy as a featured player in the...
and Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler
Amy Meredith Poehler is an American comedian, actress and voice actress. She was a cast member on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2008. In 2004, she starred in the film Mean Girls with Tina Fey, with whom she worked again in Baby Mama in 2008. She is...
sang the Moo and Oink jingle on the "Weekend Update" portion of Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
in order to prove to Scott Podsednik
Scott Podsednik
Scott Eric Podsednik is a Major League Baseball outfielder who is currently in the Philadelphia Phillies organization. Podsednik led the major leagues in stolen bases in with 70.-Minor leagues:...
that they were native Chicago White Sox
Chicago White Sox
The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...
fans.
Moo & Oink is also famous for its Chicago-style hot links and hand-cleaned chitlins.
In April 2010, they revealed a new company logo, replacing the classic cartoon-ish cow and pig logo with a logo featuring animated but realistic looking animals.
All Moo & Oink stores closed in 2011, after the company went into Chapter 7 bankruptcy, though there is interest in buying and resurrecting the company.
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