Posted on 04/26/2008 9:20:16 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Is this the fate of Bugs Bunny?
Suicide Food is a blog that tracks food marketing that depicts animals (usually cartoon animals) who cheerfully wish to be consumed, cataloging all the real life Cluckin’ Chicken’s out there.
They’ve just done a post on a Spanish fresh rabbit meat market using a grotesque amateur sign picturing Bugs Bunny’s head on a skinned rabbit carcass as a come on. Yeeeeecccchhh!
(Thanks, Doran Gaston)
Translated, “Eat me?”
I love animals. THEY'RE DELICIOUS
Ha! Seen that on a bumper sticker too.
Then there are live humans who cheerfully wish to be consumed.
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.
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.
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.
HA! HA! TAKE THAT BUGD THE DIRTY SODOMITE BUNNY!!!!!!!!!!
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?
How dare you!
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.
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.
Lol. We're jut not in the Peaceable Kingdom yet.
Nothing makes me want to pull over and buy food like an "animated chocolate chip cookie."
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