Food that eats itself

Flickr user agmilmoe posted a delightful photoset of "Anthropomorphic Cannibalism," or food so delicious that it eats itself. Seen above, "Two Fisted Cannibal." Anthropomorphic Cannibalism (Flickr, thanks John Alderman!)

UPDATE:
Previously on BB:
• Suicide foods: eager-to-be-eaten food mascots

• [Patrick Austin]

  Almost all Richard Scarry books feature at least one pig eating or selling some sort of pork product. Re-reading his books is one of the nicer aspects of parenting.

• [tahewitt]

  I posted a couple photos of these types of figures on my blog recently:

  http://tylersphotoaday.blogspot.com/2008/08/anthropomorphic-fry-headed-auto.html

• [GRCurley]

  Anthropomorphized food gives me the creeps. Never trust anything with a face that asks you to consume it.

• [OM]

  …Didn’t we have a BB piece a while back about a book where pigs go happily into the truck knowing and loving the fact that they were soon to be processed into sausages and pork chops? :-)

• [efergus3]

  I’ve always wondered about Mr. Crab and his crabby patties on Sponge Bob. Does he grind up his relatives?

• [David Pescovitz]

  OM @2, I remember that too but I couldn’t find it!

• [ck]

  There are a couple episodes of TV Funhouse where the Anipals go into a restaurant called “Sames.” Their tagline is “You Eat What You Are.”

  http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=34128

• [Rajio]

  Oh Hai!

  http://suicidefood.blogspot.com/

• [calanan]

  #2, #4 was it “Death Sty: A Pig’s Tale” by Raymond Cousse?

• [freshyill]

  Drive through North Carolina long enough, and you’ll run across more than a few pigs that can’t wait to take a bite out of themselves.

  Also, this reminds me of Cluckin Chicken: http://www.hulu.com/watch/2317/saturday-night-live-cluckin-chicken

• [Paula Wirth]

  There are several groups on flickr for this topic:

  Cut Me, Wicked Servant:
  http://www.flickr.com/groups/cut-me-wicked-servant/

  and Scary Beings Eating Themselves
  http://www.flickr.com/groups/autophagy/

• [David Pescovitz]

  RAJIO @6, thanks for the link! I updated the post with a reference to a previous BB post about that site.

• [bunchofpants]

  For several years there have been at least three groups on Flickr devoted to food items eating themselves:
  Happy Ham–http://www.flickr.com/groups/happy_ham/pool/
  Scary beings Eating Themselves-http://www.flickr.com/groups/autophagy/pool/
  Cut Me Wicked Servant–http://www.flickr.com/groups/cut-me-wicked-servant/pool/

• [Bender]

  Here’s where some food eats some food-http://tinyurl.com/6f8uh2
  and then other food eats the waste of the previous food, and makes other food- http://tinyurl.com/59zfeh. It gets complicated.

• [KurtMac]

  I always thought that the Famous Dave’s logo, featuring a chef pig barbecuing a full rack of baby-back ribs, licking his chops, to be particularly disturbing. However, not disturbing enough to resist partaking in the occasional garbage-can-lid orgy of meaty BBQ goodness every now and again.

• [anthony]

  Thanks for the remind, Freshyill.

• [neurolux]

  yeah, food mascots creep me out. Reminds me of the Foster Farms chickens.

  I like the Weinerschnitzel hot dog that doesn’t want to be eaten, or the Chick-fil-a cows that want people to eat chicken instead of them.

• [OM]

  “or the Chick-fil-a cows that want people to eat chicken instead of them.”

  …Those billboard cows caused a bit of a ruckus a few years back. One of the local fraternities went around town and stole 8 or 9 of them, and set them up in the frat house back yard having an orgy :-)

• [Noelegy]

  James Lileks (author of “The Gallery of Regrettable Food” and “Interior Desecrations,” among other titles) refers to these as Quislings. And yeah, they always give me the creeps, too.

• [Larskydoodle]

  My fave example of this phenomenon is Pepe the King Prawn, who became the spokesprawn for Long John Silvers seafood restaurant.

  A nice archive of the commercials is here:
  http://pepe.hipstersunite.com/ljs_video.htm

• [sonny p fontaine]

  i agree with #1, craigslist m4m is reeeeeaaaaallllyyyyy creepy

• [Dr.Arthur]

  Am I the only one getting hungry?

• [thau]

  As Tom Robbins wrote in “Another Roadside Attraction” never trust a pig who sells pork sandwiches.

• [Anonymous]

  I blogged a few more modern examples specifically marketed at children last year: http://jeremiahlee.com/blog/2007/08/19/sitcom-in-my-cereal/

• [agmilmoe]

  Hi all, thanks for all the related links. I’ll start adding my photos to some of the Flickr pools where they fit in.

  I’ve been collecting these for a few years, they are relatively rare, but clearly there are others finding them odd, collecting and sharing them like I do.

  I’ll be adding a few more over the weekend.

  Thanks!

• [Derrick Bostrom]

  Along similar lines, my wife alerted me to this cute post:

  http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/08/betcha-cant-eat.html

• [mattb4rd]

  The hot dog is not eating the two little ones, he’s holding up his babies to entice you to eat them. Sheesh.