'stache #32 - green pepper moustache

A true Depression-era 'stache, the green pepper was the only moustache to emerge from the reign of the sloppy, gin-soaked lime moustache days of Prohibition. The green pepper -- thin, hungry, watered down, but crisp and robust -- was seen 'stached everywhere from the bread lines in New York City to the Deep South tenant cotton farmers. In the outtakes of James Agee and Walker Evans' heady tome, there are several Evans portraits of Floyd Burroughs donning the green pepper moustache with a middle finger raised. Agee's caption simply reads, "New Deal, my ass. Eat my 'stache, Frank."

The green pepper moustache should not be worn.

'stache #5 - onion ring moustache

Although the french fry moustache remains the most popular of the American fried moustaches, the onion ring is a close second. Able to be molded into a variety of shapes, flavors, and styles, it is little wonder that many food moustache connoisseurs consider the onion ring ‘stache their top pick. During the Great Depression, the fried loop moustache was considered a mark of great wealth, onions having been all but decimated by the little known, but tragic, onion weevil plague of the early 1930s.

The onion ring moustache may be worn year round, although its malleability suffers in the warmer months. Cornelius and Dorcas sport these staches at Pierce's Pitt Bar-B-Que in Lightfoot, Virginia, off Route 64 on a difficult to find exit.