YPSILANTI, Mich. – Around here, history lives on with people’s underwear.

Two artists are selling hot pink underwear screen-printed with the word “Ypsipanty” as part of an effort to keep alive the city’s historical place in the underwear business.

Linette Lao and Mark Maynard have sold nearly 200 pairs of Ypsipanties.

“We were just thinking about Ypsi-positive things that we could make,” Maynard told The Ann Arbor News for Sunday editions. To them, he said, the idea was “fun and playful without being disrespectful.”

“And it drew on Ypsi’s history as an underwear capital,” he said.

Ypsilanti, about 30 miles west of Detroit, was home to the Ypsilanti Underwear Co. From its factory on the banks of the Huron River, the company at one time linked the city’s name with underwear.

City known for record ketchup bottle sets sights on largest sized packet

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. – First came the world’s largest ketchup bottle.

Now this southern Illinois community is after the record for the world’s largest ketchup packet.

Collinsville has partnered with the H.J. Heinz Co. to fill an 8-foot-tall, 4-foot-wide plastic pouch with 1,500 pounds of the tomato goop for a school fundraiser.

“That’s a lot of ketchup,” said Tracey Parsons, a Heinz spokeswoman.

The company donated 4,000 glass bottles of the condiment for people to buy for $1 and pour into the packet. Proceeds will go to the Collinsville Christian Academy, which was damaged by a fire this week.

The feat is being submitted to Guinness World Records.

From Associated Press reports