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The Best Pittsburgh Halloween Costume (Inspired by the best Pittsburgh holiday commercial)

Every year I spend the days leading up to the weekend before Halloween adding more costume ideas to my Pinterest account. A few years ago, I made an award winning mail order bride costume, I spent a few hours constructing a dress out of Priority Mail envelopes. I have learned that I love the process of making the Halloween costume more than I even like wearing the costume.

I spent hours looking for the perfect Pittsburgh costume to craft for this year and came up with nothing. I was debating making a Stanley Cup costume out of duct tape, but after reviewing the tutorials from the duct tape artists who make their prom dresses out of duct tape, I decided it was a project that could take years. I was a little disappointed that the internet didn’t offer up an other Pittsburgh costume ideas.  If you are unable to see the video, click here to view this on Instagram.

Best Pittsburgh Halloween Costume

But then I saw this costume posted on Instagram. Maggie has created what might be the most delightful Pittsburgh Halloween costume based off of the famous, well Pittsburgh famous, Eat N’Park holiday commercial.

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The Eat N’Park Star Commercial

Anyone who grew up in Pittsburgh in the 80’s will recognize this costume. For those of you who have not yet had the joy of watching this holiday ad, here is the commercial:

If you are interested in learning more about the Eat N’Park star commercial, check out our post from 2007 on the commercial here and there is a history of the star commercial on Eat N’Park blog here.

links n’at – Best Christmas Commercial, Saxifrage School, SwissMiss and more

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Here are a few links that we’ve shared on Facebook and Twitter that you may have missed.

I can still wish you a Merry Christmas!

The prizeImage by caseywest via FlickrIt has been a busy busy holiday season and I didn’t get a chance to post this video before December 25. But since today is technically Christmas – if you are Eastern Orthodox, then I can still write about Christmas. I even found a message board that lists some Eastern Orthodox services in Western, Pa. You can also go to St. Nicholas in Homestead for Christmas services on Jan. 7.

I am posting this great commercial from Eat N’Park for two reasons

  1. it is just great and should be watched every year
  2. it gives me a chance to highlight the fact that Eat N’Park has blog.  They have even posted about the history of this commercial – the Christmas Star ad has been around for 26 years old.

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Best Holiday Commercial EVER!

Of course it is from Pittsburgh! According to the YouTube comments this commercial has been running since 1982.
I was thinking that I had not seen this commercial on TV yet this holiday season. A quick search of YouTube solved that. Eat N’Park’s Public Relations has even put together a schedule of when the commercial will air if you want to watch it on real TV.