Pho Lover Hats

Pho is a bowl people feel strongly about, and the jokes started with the name. Spoon University's pronunciation guide has readers repeat "fuh" with a mirror, and ends with "You've pho-king earned it." The puns that followed are some of the best-known food puns on apparel: PHO KING DELICIOUS (the Vietnamese-pride shirt line from 3 Stripes Clothing), PHO REAL, PHO SHO and PHO SHIZZLE all turn up on shirts at Walmart and eBay. The bowl has real history behind the jokes. Pho is a traditional breakfast food that originated in North Vietnam, and you order it by the cut of beef or chicken: tai, nam, gan, sach, bo vien or the dac biet combination. It also has a reputation as a hangover cure. Chef Chanthy Yen names pho as the go-to food for it in Time Out, and the r/pho subreddit has about 62,000 members arguing about the rest. These pho lover hats cover the whole table. PHO is the plain badge. The pun designs carry the proven shirt lines onto an embroidered dad hat, WHAT THE PHO sits beside them, and the insider lines say what regulars already know: PHO RHYMES WITH DUH, PHO IS MY HANGOVER CURE, and RAINY DAY PHO DAY. The pho king line and the rhymes-with-duh line each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, for anyone with a regular pho spot and a firm opinion on the herbs.