About Frank Mulligan
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Frank Mulligan's involvement with playing cards and "Hot Sauces" comes from a lifelong love of spicy foods. Sporting a stainless steel digestion system, he eats Hot Sauce on just about everything, and has a formidable collection of about 1500 different hot sauces from around the world. It occurred to him over a chilled bottle of Napa Valley Chardonnay one day to use his skills as a photographer and designer to combine a love of fiery condiments with something also fun and practical. He developed "Hot Sauce Playing Cards" as both a marketing tool for the makers of the products, and as a useful and fun novelty. The premise of the cards is essentially that people will not throw away a good deck of cards as they will simply ignore and discard other forms of advertising.
In fact, fellow lovers of hot and spicy foods will not only read the manufacturers' advertising message on the cards, but will pay to do it by buying the deck to play with! |
The second deck in the series is called "Chile Chuckles" and contains not just Hot Sauces, but marinades, dry spices, confections, and hot salsas.
As an additional gimmick to make the cards even more fun, this deck includes a "Chilehead One-Liner" gag on each card.
Each joke starts with the line "You know you're a chilehead if.." and ends with an absurd punchline, such as "
the Atomic Energy Commission is monitoring your barbecues!"
The deck was released in July of 1999. The final deck in the series is called "The Winner's Circle", and contains both Fiery Food and BBQ products that have won industry recognized awards for quality.
Only winners with certified credentials qualify for the deck and it will be marketed as "a hand-held catalog" of the very, very best in the condiments industry.
The deck will be on the market by late summer 2000. Frank currently lives and works in San Diego, California, and is working on a special deck called "The Hot Nasties", with some of the funniest and raunchiest Hot Sauce names and descriptions to ever grace the shelves of sauce shops. It'll be for mature audiences only. |
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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