Fresh Hare ("cartoon animals who cheerfully wish to be consumed")

Cartoon Brew ^ | 04/26/08 | Jerry Beck

[raccoonradio]

Suicide Food

[the invisib1e hand]

Translated, “Eat me?”

[raccoonradio]

Guess they're not fans of eating meat?

I love animals. THEY'RE DELICIOUS

[raccoonradio]

PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals

[Westlander]

[raccoonradio]

But are they made from real mice?

[raccoonradio]

Ha! Seen that on a bumper sticker too.

[Polybius]

"cartoon animals who cheerfully wish to be consumed"

Then there are live humans who cheerfully wish to be consumed.

[MrEdd]

[dr_lew]

One of my early memories is of my Mom’s disgust with a page in a coloring book I had. It showed an anthropomorphic pig chef cheerfully serving a roast pig on a platter. Neither of these elements considered alone would be considered objectionable, and I guess my powers of conceptual synthesis had not developed to the point where I saw any sort of clash. My mother prevailed upon me not to color that particular page, however, and I can still picture it in my mind as I tried to put it all together.

[Gondring]

Related to this is the idea of eating sentient mascots, such as the M&Ms. A few years back, this trend seemed to really kick in suddenly.

[dr_lew]

That’s right! There’s a fairly recent one with chocolate chip cookies. The cookie’s exaggerated enthusiasm to be consumed gave me pause, as I recall.

[Ptarmigan]

HA! HA! TAKE THAT BUGD THE DIRTY SODOMITE BUNNY!!!!!!!!!!

[Gondring]

Remember the creepy one about the strawberry walking down the street and getting abducted by guys in a van (Pop-Tarts, I think)? Personifying food seems like an expression of cannibalism in the cultural subconcious, eh?

[dr_lew]

Personifying food seems like an expression of cannibalism in the cultural subconcious, eh?

How dare you!

[wastedyears]

Poor Mel Blanc’s rolling over in his grave.

There’s just certain lines you don’t cross.

I for one am not amused about this.

[Vince Ferrer]

Cluckin Chicken

[dr_lew]

It says, “Fresh rabbit” ... that’s “El Conejo Fresa”, cognate to “coney”. It’s really no different than an animated chocolate chip cookie from a food consumption point of view.

[the invisib1e hand]

Poor Mel Blanc’s rolling over in his grave. There’s just certain lines you don’t cross. I for one am not amused about this.

Lol. We're jut not in the Peaceable Kingdom yet.

[the invisib1e hand]

It’s really no different than an animated chocolate chip cookie from a food consumption point of view.

Nothing makes me want to pull over and buy food like an "animated chocolate chip cookie."