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Tattoos by food lovers

Lisa Katayama at 10:45 am Fri, Apr 30, 2010

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eggtattoo.jpeg The OC Weekly has photos of a dozen individuals who love a certain type of food so much that they got tattoos of it. Here, a man whose head is covered with eggs, bacon, and hash browns.

One dozen unique food tattoos [via NotCot]

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  • yoni191

    My friend has SRIR ACHA tattooed on his knuckles. Proof! http://www.flickr.com/photos/corvussolus/4077312850/

  • victhortheviking

    Breakfast head is an avid Boing Boing reader…Thanks Boing Boing

  • Anonymous

    Those are the least scrambled eggs I’ve ever seen…

  • moofalumbo

    i got “this is my brain on drugs” when i 1st looked at this picture. guess i missed the food angle completely?

  • David B

    Those are sunny-side up, not scrambled!

  • DominEditrix

    Those are sunny-side-up eggs!

  • dross1260

    moofalumbo – I was thinking more zombie eating brains.

  • Anonymous

    that yamulkah ain’t kosher.

  • flappy

    bloodshot sunny-side-up eggs?
    I got “nice bird-shit target” when I first looked at the picture…

  • Felton

    This is bound to confuse a zombie or two.

  • Tony Moore

    my wife’s a chef, and she has a toque w/crossed wusthof knives as a backpiece, and a glass shaker slinging salt over her left shoulder.

  • Ben

    Oh, man! I love the Pushead-inspired “Vegan” one.

  • Marcel

    Gotta love the hot-dog.

    Fine piece of art.

  • groovehouse

    The Houston Press also recently did an article on Chef Tats.

    Article: http://www.houstonpress.com/2010-04-15/news/chef-tats/

    Slideshow: http://www.houstonpress.com/slideshow/chef-tats-a-photo-essay-29680410/

  • Felton

    Not that these tattoos aren’t excellent, but they could become a liability if these people ever in a group of starving people (Donner party, lifeboat, etc.) trying to decide whom to eat first.

    • Felton

      Hmmm…redundancy, missing a verb…my writing skills are a little off today.

  • mappo

    Not one, but two Threadless designs as tattoos? Just by the freakin T shirt instead.

  • Anonymous

    check out my FLICHR group been collecting these for a couple years.. good yummy stuff!
    http://www.flickr.com/groups/foodtatts/

  • Halloween Jack

    The Vegan one is the best, but I’m also happy to see that someone saw fit to immortalize Chicago-style dogs.