A retro cartoon chicken raises its cocktail glass, a lemon slice flies past, and above it all stands the German saying everyone at the table repeats at once: Auch ein blindes Huhn trinkt mal einen Korn, meaning even a blind chicken drinks a Korn (grain schnapps) sometimes. The saying sits on the front in red and black swing lettering, the back reads „Die wilden Hühner“ (the wild chickens) with chicken tracks and a feather.
Made for the crew that goes out together: girls' night, village fair, Mallorca, hen party or the evening nobody wants to end sober. Quality cotton, bold print, several shirt colours.
Product description
The Blind Chicken Korn T-Shirt takes an old German proverb and turns it around. The original says even a blind chicken finds a grain sometimes; this shirt says it drinks one: Auch ein blindes Huhn trinkt mal einen Korn, Korn being the clear grain schnapps poured at every German village fair. Instead of pecking for grain, the chicken holds a cocktail glass with a paper umbrella in its claw, winks with one eye and dances out of the picture on two orange legs. A lemon slice flies past on the left, a small star sparkles at the bottom right, and the lettering swings once around the motif in strong red and black. The style recalls comics and advertising posters from the sixties: clear outlines, cream-coloured plumage with warm shading and a halftone background that looks like old offset printing.
The back reads „Die wilden Hühner“, the wild chickens, in the same red retro lettering, with three chicken tracks and a feather, as if the whole flock had just passed through. That turns the saying into a crew name: whoever travels with their people to a village fair, a fun fair, Mallorca or a hen party wears the joke on the front and the gang on the back. It works for women and men alike, because this chicken takes no sides and a Korn goes with every occasion.
Why the saying works so well: every German speaker knows the original about the blind chicken finding a grain. The version on this shirt swaps a single word and turns a proverb about lucky hits into a drinking toast that needs a short moment when read aloud and then lands. That is exactly what happens at the bar, in the beer tent or on the train to the stadium: someone reads it out, the group laughs, and the next round is already on the table.
The motif is a one-off from our studio. The chicken with the cocktail glass exists in this form only here; it was drawn specifically for this saying rather than taken from a template. We deliberately kept the palette to cream, red, black and a warm amber for the glass, so the print looks calm and clean on light shirts such as light pink, ash or sky blue and the lettering stays legible from every angle. The front print runs across the chest, the back print sits centred between the shoulder blades.
The design is printed on a quality cotton shirt with a pleasantly firm feel, suited to a long night out as much as to the brunch after. Add the sleeve prints and you get a small extra motif from the same picture world on each arm. The Blind Chicken Korn T-Shirt makes a gift for people who like to celebrate and can laugh at themselves: for a birthday, for the village youth club, for the bowling team, as the badge of a crew or as the answer to the question of what to wear on Saturday. Even a blind chicken drinks a Korn sometimes, and this one already has its glass in hand.
