'stache #45 - the chicory moustache

One of a handful of yeoman moustaches, the chicory is the reserved for the dandy farmers of the New England. In 1785, Governor Boudoin of Massachusetts discovered a flavorful new fad in European facial hair, the chicory moustache. He set straight to purchase the seeds from Holland and began to plant this bitter salad stuff. From there the chicory was quickly adopted by Northern yeomanry as the lip lettuce of choice in the warm summers (an exaggeration despised by Southern farm hands). Revived by old Woodstock hippies seeking a reconnection with Mother Nature and chicorystache is linchpin to this modern, backward looking, vegetable-heavy locavore movement. This leafy ‘stache comes to us from a farm outside of Fleischmann’s New York called the Cooked Goose in Roxbury, New York.