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Suicide foods: eager-to-be-eaten food mascots

Cory Doctorow at 1:04 pm Thu, Apr 19, 2007

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The Suicide Food blog rounds up pictures of food advertisements in which the animal that's about to be eaten is shown cavorting in anticipation of this happy moment. Link (Thanks, Alicia!)

See also: Creepy character logo: Rubio's Pesky

Update: Cody sez, "What better time to post this golden oldie of Douglas Adams reading a selection about food which wants to be eaten from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?"

7-How-7 sez, "The 'Cut Me, Wicked Servant' group on Flickr deals with the same topic as the Suicide Foods blog except using actual photos of restaurants, murals, ads, etc featuring an animal, maybe a cow or a pig or a sad sad chicken, about to slice himself up with a fork and knife."

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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