Noun or Verb?

Driving around chasing a few to do items on my errand list, I saw the following sign.

Sign reading produce

There wasn’t much else around the sign. It got me to thinking, did the person who put up the sign intend the word ‘PRODUCE’ as a noun or verb? Was it acknowledgment of the existence of vegetables or a command to create?

3 comments

  1. I think it was a makeshift inkblot test. Yes, I do suppose this would be less makeshift than an inkblot, but what ya gonna do?

  2. I think it must be an open-ended phrase that the author did not intend as a question or as a statement. It was simply a word posted to encourage passers-by to ponder matters deeper than the traffic surrounding them.

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