Is this a camel?, the Reynolds people asked each other when Barnum & Bailey came to town. A photographer visited and found a dromedary, but Old Joe wouldn't hold still. The trainer gave him a slap and Old Joe raised his tail and threw back his ears as the shutter snapped. From that photograph, a new label was designed and Old Joe became the most famous dromedary in the world.
-Greensboro Daily News, November 29, 1974
None of the drovers were habitual smokers, most preferring a good chaw of glycerined tombaq, but a few always had a loose Abu Fīl, Father of the Elephant. They laughed when Mustapha showed them a pack of Camel Filters but readily accepted his offer of Pierre Cardin 100s, brought to Kordofan straight from Paris.