Women Laughing Alone with Salad

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TheCrawNotTheCraw

I want a woman who laughs at salads…but not every time.
badstockart

I’m obsessed with terrible stock photography. Not sure why this set became a meme – but whatever. More at my blog, if you’re into it – http://badstockart.com
Avram / Moderator

Briefly tempted to Photoshop Crying Don Draper into one of those.
Utenzil

ch’uhhh! ^better to photoshop something heinous into the place of the salad.
cha0tic

Shouldn’t that be ‘White Woman Laughing Alone With Salad’? Do women of other ethnicities find Salad equally hilarious?

A good while back wasn’t there a trope or meme around ‘Black Woman With A Computer’ something like this picture:
http://instagr.am/p/2mei/
- badstockart
  
  Yeah, I obsess over the nonsense we’re expected to pay for at stock photography sites. I’m not sure why some of these sets become memes. I find almost all of it totally useless. I even have a whole blog about it, if you care -cheers http://badstockart.com
mathdemon

It’s tragic.
Anonymous

I’ve seen better salads on istock
TheCrawNotTheCraw

With apologies to Neil Young:

“I want to live
with a Salad Bar Girl…”
Anonymous

The woman in the middle is weirdly far away from her salad, unless we infer she’s sharing it with the photographer sitting at the other end of the table.
- jimh
  
  Approach/Avoidance complex, with lulz
Anonymous

What’s so funny about salad?

Seriously. I’ve promised myself that once I hit 50, I’ll never eat salad again. Or cottage cheese.
dross1260

stick a fork in it
jimh

lol saladz!1!!
Anonymous

Vegetables ARE funny!
Stooge

“You want me to put that in my mouth?”
Anonymous

they are alone, for you see, as the sage homer and bart pointed out, you don’t make friends with salad.

http://saladsimpsons.ytmnd.com/

(it’s just so catchy!)
Anonymous

This salad is hilarious!
scifijazznik

The one on the left? I’d toss her salad….
blueelm

When in reality a woman who becomes that hysterically manic with uncontrollable joy in her apt at the sight of a salad she, logically, probably just made for herself would be more appropriate as an ad for psych meds.
Anonymous

Easy nowadays for designers: “Go to photos.com and find a photo of a lady laughing with a salad. Keywords: laughing lady salad

Okay, we’re all set Dooley, run with it.

corn and butter
danegeld

I wish salad brought me that much joy!!
VICTOR JIMENEZ

Imma etin mah salad! HAHA!
Anonymous

I would NEVER let my woman alone with a salad like that.

You’re just asking for trouble.
Anonymous

In 2011, salad women are the new ukulele girls. Just look at them.
Anonymous

Ah, new sauce for >mfw posts on /ck/. thx!
adamnvillani

A couple days ago I saw a graffito in a subway station where the tagger had spray-painted his name on the wall: SALAD.

What kind of a lame tag is “Salad?”
- Jack
  
  SALAD is â€œDallasâ€ backwards minus the one â€œL.â€ Makes you think!
- Anonymous
  
  S.A. Lad!
stoneJ

i guess ‘salad’ is the new ‘cats’.
MollyMaguire

Be careful! It will shoot out of your nose!
Donald Petersen

I don’t know how they do it. I bet you could find Men Laughing Alone With… well, no, maybe not. Whether armed with beer, steak, football, ice cream, porn, or flamed hot rods, you don’t often find photos of men laughing alone, do you?

And men alone with salads… Christ, what a Bergman film that’d make.
- IronEdithKidd
  
  You win the thread.
adamnvillani

The three examples here on BoingBoing pulled from the site are all white women, but if you follow the link to the original site, 3 of the 16 women appear to be African-American.
urbanspaceman

What kind of dressing? French, Creamy Italian or Greek? :~)
PaulR

Well, they’re not really alone: there is a photographer there too, no?
Thad E Ginataom

I’ll have whatever she’s eating
knoxblox

Woman on The Left (#1): “My God, this is the worst thing I’ve ever tasted!”
mace

Don’t forget the internet-classic < http://www.cryingwhileeating.com/>Crying, while eating -site.

Peppery

So confusing – I thought that only yogurt could be this much fun.

bodenski

laughing WITH or AT a salad??

Thad E Ginataom

Actually, none of them is alone. There is always the person who took the photograph.