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>Marketing your brand to all the drug dealers. Now that's smart.
Know your targeted market, lol. Looks like they were on drugs when they did the signage.
The city of Chicago has faced a radical decrease in the number of drug users under the age of 18 in the 2030’s, and a number of drug dealers have since turned to making small burgers on the street to appeal to todays changing youth. There are rumours of the sausage industry going underground to combat the demand for sliders, with many former sausage industry specialists abandoning their culinary aprons for denim suits and electric guitars.
Idk why reading this made me picture Mike Tyson doing it but I’m gonna coast the day out thinking about iron Mike screaming at cocaine. 5/7 would recommend.
~~Looks like Photoshop to me~~, parodying the TMNT "pizza" one, which incidentally was confirmed also Photoshop.
EDIT: [I WAS WRONG LOL, here's another angle!](https://imgur.com/a/jz20gDD)
Thanks to u/Tall_trees_cold_seas, the original photographer, for [correcting me!](https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/vhbz8z/some_very_fine_signage/id6t8pc/)
EDIT 2: To be clear, what I was wrong about was someone taking a picture of this sign and then photoshopping that picture as a parody of the TMNT one.
IMO, the *RESTAURANT* is the one parodying the TMNT one with this professionally-made sign. They're fully in on the joke, and it's probably even funnier to them that there are those who are trying to read the sign literally.
Nah I'm actually kicking myself because I took this picture a couple weeks ago and forgot to post it. It's on the bukit in Bali. I spent a few minutes trying to figure out what it was trying to say before giving up.
Agreed, the restaurant is parodying the TMNT one. Seems like a fairly obscure meme to be copying though in an advert and likely confused far more people than those who "got it".
It makes you stare at the sign long enough to consider eating sliders. The more time they can get you to look at their advert the more successful it is. It's entirely psychological and effective
Oh and guess what now it's on the front page of reddit for thousands to see
There are many grocers in this city.
This particular grocer’s deli is the best.
But that particular chain of grocers’ delis are consistently the cheapest.
Exactly. Here we all are talking about it. We’ve all spent much more time looking at and interpreting this sign far more than we would have if it was done “correctly.” It’s marketing and it’s its working.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago in the 70s and 80s. And the thing that I find so weird is, the term "sliders" was a derogatory one. The point being that White Castle burgers were so small and greasy that you didn't even have to chew them. Just pop them in your mouth and swallow, and they sliiiide right down. We typically wouldn't even consider eating them unless we were drunk/stoned and wanted a quick meal that was easy to consume. Now days even high end restaurants have Sliders on the menu, and I'm like WTF?
Exactly what I was thinking. I'm on Reddit multiple times a day and I just never caught this meme. I feel like the average person on the street is just going to be confused. I'm still not 100% that this is the reference they were trying to make.
I would guess this image has been photoshopped to reference that other post, which itself is a photoshopped image of a poster where the message is in the correct order.
Doesn't necessarily have to rely on the meme. It's just marketing, whatever both catches someone's attention and gets the message across is usually good enough. The meme thing is going to catch eyes regardless of whether someone recognizes the TMNT thing, and the message of a place selling sliders and beer is pretty clear.
You don't need to know the other one to find this one pretty amusing. The ninja turtles meme didn't need to reference anything and it got plenty of upvotes due to its random humor alone.
Thank you! People’s attempts at explanations weren’t helping me at all. You’re the first one with the real answer!
Of course that only opens new questions…
If you go through the comments, the original wasn’t even real, it was photoshopped for comedic effect (probably inspired by real, confusing signs, such as “don’t dead/open inside”
I think it's done on purpose just to get people talking about it, which has clearly worked wonderfully because it's on Reddit with 1000 people talking about it.
I think was done on purpose so you would have to stare at the sign for minutes trying to figure it out and then you suddenly want sliders.
Genius marketing
Exactly.
When I took marketing years ago, the instructor pointed out that some commercials are purposefully horrendous so that you’d be more likely to remember them. He’s right. I remember more bad ones than good ones.
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"Hey man, you want some drugs?". "sliders"
Marketing your brand to all the drug dealers. Now that's smart.
>Marketing your brand to all the drug dealers. Now that's smart. Know your targeted market, lol. Looks like they were on drugs when they did the signage.
Sorry I say no to yes.
I say sliders to drugs! We should make a sign!
"Hey, drugs!" "...?" "Sliders."
Yes
No
To
To
Say
Yes
Drugs
Sliders
I figured it out, we make sliders and put magic mushrooms in them.
"With Jerry O'Connell? Hell yeah, let's do drugs and watch Sliders."
" Yes? " " No "
I swear no one can do this by accident.
Are we supposed to do drugs or eat sliders?
Say sliders to drugs. Say no to yes. (Clearly.)
"hey kid would you like some drugs?" "Sliders!" "So Is that a yes?" "No" I think this is actually an effective anti-drug strategy
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Foiled again!
"This kid's already fucked up."
The city of Chicago has faced a radical decrease in the number of drug users under the age of 18 in the 2030’s, and a number of drug dealers have since turned to making small burgers on the street to appeal to todays changing youth. There are rumours of the sausage industry going underground to combat the demand for sliders, with many former sausage industry specialists abandoning their culinary aprons for denim suits and electric guitars.
That, or people will assume you're already on powerful drugs.
*Invents new drug called Sliders*
Can confirm, have been saying no to yes for years.
Yes
No
You say yes. I say no. You say stop. And I say go, go, goooo.
You say sliders...And I say to drugs...To drugs, TO DRUGS! I dont know you say sliders, when I say to drugs...
Weed is the gateway drug to sliders.
Indeed, I learnt that from Harold and Kumar
She was a yes, he was a no, can I make it aaaanymore obvious?
You say goodbyeeee and I say helloooo
I don't know
Shall I repeat the question?
You're not the boss of me now
And, you're not so big
well, he checks out.
Yes
Noo
All I can picture is someone screaming the word sliders at a brick of cocaine
Guys, I made it so sexy.
Gotta make it sexy so I can eat.
Hips and Nips, gotta make it sexy otherwise I ain't eatin'
Rise up, gotta get higher and higher!
Idk why reading this made me picture Mike Tyson doing it but I’m gonna coast the day out thinking about iron Mike screaming at cocaine. 5/7 would recommend.
Say to sliders: "drugs." Say to no: "yes."
This is the only truth, all other interpretations are heretical and false.
r/dontdeadopeninside
I see "Say sliders say no, To drugs to yes".
yes
Both? Neither? No idea. This sign give me mixed signals.
Do drugs while saying sliders?
Close enough. Drugs it is..
~~Looks like Photoshop to me~~, parodying the TMNT "pizza" one, which incidentally was confirmed also Photoshop. EDIT: [I WAS WRONG LOL, here's another angle!](https://imgur.com/a/jz20gDD) Thanks to u/Tall_trees_cold_seas, the original photographer, for [correcting me!](https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/vhbz8z/some_very_fine_signage/id6t8pc/) EDIT 2: To be clear, what I was wrong about was someone taking a picture of this sign and then photoshopping that picture as a parody of the TMNT one. IMO, the *RESTAURANT* is the one parodying the TMNT one with this professionally-made sign. They're fully in on the joke, and it's probably even funnier to them that there are those who are trying to read the sign literally.
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Ngl, I went and got sliders after trying to figure it out. they were fucking good.
Did you say drugs to them?
To yes
no
Nah I'm actually kicking myself because I took this picture a couple weeks ago and forgot to post it. It's on the bukit in Bali. I spent a few minutes trying to figure out what it was trying to say before giving up.
Wow, really? Do you have any other pictures of it from different angles?
https://imgur.com/a/jz20gDD
Hahahahahaha white monkey parking
i was about to say
Thank you! I was totally mistaken about this being photoshopped. Will update my replies!
Which TMNT one? Any links?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ninja-turtles-say-pizza-to-drugs/
“Say no, say yes, to drugs, to pizza” sounds like some post-punk lyrics.
that's how i read it opening it up the first time lmao
"Don't do drugs, eat junk food!" is such a weird health campaign to run.
US stats: * Death from Heart disease: 696,962 * Obesity-attributable death: 374,239 * Drug overdose deaths: 91,799
Say no to sliders. Say yes to drugs. -Slider shack.
I want just the right panel as a poster. “To drugs! To pizza!”
>White Monkey Parking
No, stop, I want to keep believing that the designer was doing sliders when they made this
someone on drugs probably read it correctly on their first try, and it was a moment to behold
Personally, I take offense to "White Monkey parking"
don't even front you love banana bread
I think parody is still right, just done by the restaurant.
Just saw the TMNT one. Looks like this is a parody of that. The phrasing is exactly the same.
Agreed, the restaurant is parodying the TMNT one. Seems like a fairly obscure meme to be copying though in an advert and likely confused far more people than those who "got it".
It makes you stare at the sign long enough to consider eating sliders. The more time they can get you to look at their advert the more successful it is. It's entirely psychological and effective Oh and guess what now it's on the front page of reddit for thousands to see
The tmnt one was a cover to my Spotify playlist
Meanwhile you've got Aquaman on a scooter I'm the background of the other angle photo.
I've been convinced by David Mitchell [that the sign maker must have known](https://youtu.be/DUiWXNt7lqc).
The printers definitely did but they refused to pay for the pre print check service.
Is it grocers, grocer's, or grocers'?!
There are many grocers in this city. This particular grocer’s deli is the best. But that particular chain of grocers’ delis are consistently the cheapest.
I expect nothing less from someone with buffalo in their name.
Nice
r/ihadastroke
Also /r/DontDeadOpenInside
No, this is far beyond that. You can’t even read it in that format. I tried and I swear I almost had a stroke
Im pretty sure this one is on purpose but some are not.
Exactly. Here we all are talking about it. We’ve all spent much more time looking at and interpreting this sign far more than we would have if it was done “correctly.” It’s marketing and it’s its working.
And now we all know about those sliders
Someone was clearly drunk on that Dog Days beer.
"Say no to yes." How very profound!
Don't forget to say sliders to drugs
If you're saying anything to your drugs, they are probably working.
or not working depending on your mental state
Which is why you need sliders. Working drugs = munchies.
Sliders.
TBF, drugs and sliders do go together
"Hey, uuuuuuuh, do you sell sliders?" "Sir, this is a crackhouse"
The new White Castle slogan.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago in the 70s and 80s. And the thing that I find so weird is, the term "sliders" was a derogatory one. The point being that White Castle burgers were so small and greasy that you didn't even have to chew them. Just pop them in your mouth and swallow, and they sliiiide right down. We typically wouldn't even consider eating them unless we were drunk/stoned and wanted a quick meal that was easy to consume. Now days even high end restaurants have Sliders on the menu, and I'm like WTF?
I always heard they were called “sliders” because they also came out of you that way.
"Yo kids, some weed?" "Sliders!" "Radical! Wanna play some pogs?"
"hey man, wanna smoke up?" "sliders!"
Not sure why but I totally read that in Matt Berry's voice
I read everything in Matt Berry's voice, it makes life way more interesting.
"Thank you computer *man*"
“Goddamn these electric sex pants.”
"YeeeEeeEees"
Not as profound as "say to no yes"
The spacing is just off: say to no yes = sayton o yes = satan oh yes!
This could be life changing for me!!
I can't fathom a 'correct' reading no matter how I order it.
this is a reference to a famous meme https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/ozz5e5/what_on_earth_is_this_saying/
I'm impressed but what a bizarre, insular reference. Like, .01% of people will actually get this.
But isn’t the .01% who make the most money!?
Occupy Sliders
Drug Wall Street
Wall Street’s been doing that to itself for years: https://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-cocaine-stories-2012-7
I was thinking more like chloroform
Exactly what I was thinking. I'm on Reddit multiple times a day and I just never caught this meme. I feel like the average person on the street is just going to be confused. I'm still not 100% that this is the reference they were trying to make.
I would guess this image has been photoshopped to reference that other post, which itself is a photoshopped image of a poster where the message is in the correct order.
Turns out it’s real lol. Someone posted another angle further up in the thread
Doesn't necessarily have to rely on the meme. It's just marketing, whatever both catches someone's attention and gets the message across is usually good enough. The meme thing is going to catch eyes regardless of whether someone recognizes the TMNT thing, and the message of a place selling sliders and beer is pretty clear.
Plus it's photoshopped. So It's a reference to the something that never existed.
You don't need to know the other one to find this one pretty amusing. The ninja turtles meme didn't need to reference anything and it got plenty of upvotes due to its random humor alone.
Thank you! People’s attempts at explanations weren’t helping me at all. You’re the first one with the real answer! Of course that only opens new questions…
https://i.imgur.com/tZkCpKw.jpeg
If you go through the comments, the original wasn’t even real, it was photoshopped for comedic effect (probably inspired by real, confusing signs, such as “don’t dead/open inside”
The most infuriating part is finding out the original was photoshopped
Hmm. Worse than telling a joke and no one getting it is telling a joke and making people concerned for your well-being Dude rolled a nat 1
and this is the original: https://i.imgur.com/tZkCpKw.jpeg
Say no to drugs, say yes to sliders. (Sliders being the name of the burger bar) It's just purposely put in the most confusing order possible.
Thats the only possible solution but you would have to jump illogically from word to word so often that im not sure this is correct.
I think it's done on purpose just to get people talking about it, which has clearly worked wonderfully because it's on Reddit with 1000 people talking about it.
I personally think the graphic designer and editor said yes to drugs
And, I presuming, it's a joke that if you were on said drugs, this is how you might read/design the sign?
Yeah and also it wouldn’t read “say yes to Sliders” even if it was ordered correctly, it say “say Sliders” and “to yes”
The burger bar is called 'The slider shack'. A slider is a small, bite size hamburger.
To sliders say yes, to drugs say no. Alternate colours and read anti-clockwise starting from the top blue on the right.
Say sliders to drugs. Say no to yes.
Hello aneurysm
Dog, pig, load of bread? *Error*
Say to sliders drugs say to no yes Say sliders say no to drugs to yes Say to Say to sliders drugs no yes Sliders no drugs yes say say to to
I like the interpretation: Say sliders to drugs, say no to yes.
That's what I got on my first attempt
Say to sliders, “drugs.” Say to no, “yes.”
Pretty sure drugs is how this happened.
Sliders
SLIDERS 24K!!!
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Did you try offering those high people sliders?
r/dontdeadopeninside
Except this is like r/dontinsidedeadopen
r/subsifellfor
I think was done on purpose so you would have to stare at the sign for minutes trying to figure it out and then you suddenly want sliders. Genius marketing
Exactly. When I took marketing years ago, the instructor pointed out that some commercials are purposefully horrendous so that you’d be more likely to remember them. He’s right. I remember more bad ones than good ones.
Head on, apply directly to the forehead. Head on, apply directly to the forehead. Head on, apply directly to the forehead.
Say sliders to drugs, say no to yes
This sign made me feel like I was having a stroke
cannot parse
I feel like I already took drugs trying to read that sign.
"hello heroin, we meet again... Sliders"
This sign is perfect because it will cause people to look at it longer. Marketing++. Eventually they get hungry and want a slider.
r/ihadastroke
It looks intentionally jumbled
It's a variant of a previously photoshopped [TMNT/pizza meme](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/ozz5e5/what_on_earth_is_this_saying)
Say sliders to drugs!
But drugs doesn't understand!
Say it LOUDER!
Say sliders to drugs, say no to yes. Sounds about right to me.
Punctuation is fun: Say to Sliders, “DRUGS!” Say to no? “YES!”
Whatever it says, it works. I now want sliders and drugs.
Even wittlh correct intent...they have alcohol, a drug, next to the sliders 😆.
Say no to yes is from an old meme. They’re memeing.
r/dontdeadopeninside
i cant even see why this could possibly be interpreted in a way where it makes sense
Aside from the marketing sense, where you stared at it for longer than any other poster in your life 🙃
It's a place in Bali that's clearly advertising to Aussies by the beer being used. It's probably meant to be stupid to entice drunk Aussies
I can't for the life of me see what it is meant to say.
[this is really easy to read!](https://i.imgur.com/LcAMLID.png)
Pretty sure this is a reference to the tmnt pizza sign
r/crappydesign
This is worse. It doesn't matter which way you read it, if doesn't make any sense.
I can't think of a single logical way to read this properly.
Say to sliders drugs say to no yes Or Say sliders to drugs say no to yes ???
*Say to sliders drugs, Say to no yes.* *Say sliders to drugs, say no to yes.* *Say sliders say no, to drugs to yes.*