When examined closely, some people claim to see a man with an erection on the camel's left leg. Another legend says the leg image is a nude woman.
-Greensboro Daily News, November 29, 1974, Article on Camel Cigarettes’ first advertising campaign
If Hamlet could convince Polonius to see a camel in a cloud, I could have convinced the boy cook Ibrahim to see a Bint in a Jamal. But probably it would have been more like Big Jim looking at Charlie Chaplin and seeing a chicken. If in the desert all you eat is Asīda, ground millet, American chicken feed, imagining a leg roast for dinner would make anybody, or anything, stand straight.