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  • Mayor's remark spawns T-shirt craze - Nagin's says New Orleans will again be a "chocolate city"

    01/24/2006 8:32:43 PM PST · by Former Military Chick · 34 replies · 1,981+ views
    UPI ^ | 1/24/2006 6:03:00 PM -0500 | UPI
    NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Mayor Ray Nagin's Martin Luther King Day remark that New Orleans will once again be a "chocolate city" has spawned a cottage industry of T-shirts. There are the "Chocolate City Police" shirts, which say "I'm not bitter" on the back, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. And then there are T-shirts that feature Nagin as Willy Wonka. Dolph Federico, who peddles the Willy Nagin shirts at imnotchocolate.com, said he has received orders from as far away as Norway and Malaysia. "No hard feelings, Ray," he said. "We're just trying to have fun." The mayor's statement,...