Cattle/Popular culture

As one of the longest-domesticated animals, cows and cattle have played a significant role within Western popular culture. Sometimes carrying the power of life-directing myth, and sometimes merely depicted so as to evoke a hearty belly laugh, they have been portrayed in art, nursery rhymes, language idioms, advertisements, and cartoons and comics since the early 1800s.

Literature

The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead[1]

Pete Cow Puncher: A Story of the Texas Plains by Joseph B. Ames

Nursery rhymes

Hey Diddlle Diddle (The cow jumped over the moon)

Language idioms

The fatted calf/kill the fatted calf

Until the cows come home

Cash cow

How now brown cow?

Holy cow

Have a cow

A sacred cow

Cow-punch

As awkward as a cow on roller skates

Cowboy

Cow poke

Film

Hundreds of iconic and B-grade cowboy movies, see filmography and catalogues at cowboy and western (film)

Edison's films of County Fairs

Barnyard

Cow and Chicken

Comics

Civil War Era

The Far Side

London's Times

The Man-Eating-Cow (Tick Comics)

Advertisements

T-shirt designed by Woody Jackson, creator of the Ben and Jerry's cows. The shirt reads: "Moo. Deja Moo."

Ben and Jerry's

In 1983, Ben Cohen approached Vermont artist Woody Jackson about using Jackson's distinctive cow themed artwork as the hallmark of the fledgling Ben and Jerry's ice cream company. The company has since grown to be a household name, operating around the world. The "Woody cow" remains a prominent part of the Ben and Jerry's brand.

Cow Brand Baking Soda

Milk Maids

BMW

Borden - Elsie the Cow

Chik-fil-a - The "Eat More Chikin" cows

Music

Early American Folk

The Dead Milkmen (band)

Pink Floyd, Atom Heart Mother

Other

Cow tipping

Furniture

Moofia

Postage stamps

I Never Saw a Purple Cow

Dropping the Cow (comedy troupe)[2]

Clothing[3]