"Camel is EVERYTHING!"

Snuggies are funny. I laugh at the commercials and I laugh when I see them at the store. But I've gotta admit, as one who is always cold during the fall/winter/spring in Seattle since it's hella expensive to turn on the electric heat, I kinda want one.

So I hear rumor that you can find Snuggies now that have your favorite team's logo on them. Sweet. Thanks to Google I quickly find a Seattle Seahawks "blanket snuggie." No, this is not a legitimate Snuggie. It's a knockoff. I'm apparently a Snuggie snob now, as I found myself thinking "I don't want to fork out the cash if it's not a real Snuggie." Seriously. Then my train of thought had me wondering if they came with the logos of colleges, because a BSU Snuggie would be pretty sweet, too, and could double as a Christmas gift for a few folks on my list. That's right, I said it. So I return to trusty Google and am informed that not only do such Snuggies exist, but they are LEGITIMATE Snuggies! Made by the real Snuggie company that started it all. Oh, the glory of it all.

For those of you not familiar with the many options presented to a shopper when deigning to purchase a Snuggie, I can tell you there are many. At the grocery last week I saw the "Designer prints" of "leopard" and "zebra." I also saw the standard blue Snuggie, as well as the ever-so-feminine pink Snuggie. There is also a child's size Snuggie and, though it was not available at Albertson's (or perhaps sold out), there is a Snuggie for dogs. Brilliant. What dog wouldn't love it? According to the website, you can also get a green snuggie. You can even custom design your Snuggie to say whatever you want! Oh, the possibilities.

So to summarize - there are 3 colors - pink, blue and green. And there are "Designer Prints." That's ridiculous in and of itself. But here's where I started laughing: On the website, there is an ad for all of the "Designer Prints." Apparently, Albertson's was not offering all of the options, and the one they were missing is the one I probably would've bought for the pure hilarity. The 3rd print: "camel."

You may be asking yourself, "what exactly does a camel print look like?" Well I can tell you. It's brown. That's it. It's a brown Snuggie. But I guess some genius at the Snuggie corporation decided that it would not sell as well as the green, blue or pink Snuggies if it was just sold as a brown Snuggie. But if you market this gem as a "Designer print" and call it "camel," get ready for them to fly off the shelves. Again, they weren't at Albertson's, so perhaps this was true and I just arrived too late.

Anyway, Z and I have a long-standing joke about camels being "everything." We were once watching some travel show and the host was interviewing a Bedouin and he was describing how the camel is everything: "Camel is shelter. Camel is transport. Camel is everything." (To be honest, I don't remember if those were the examples he gave. We've added so many things onto the list over the years that I don't remember what the original definition of "everything" was, but you get the idea). Anyway, it is now official. Camel is Snuggie. Camel IS everything.(Thanks again to Google, who supplied me with this random photo of 3 random dudes modeling 3 Snuggie options, most notably, "camel.")