Vegetables
The Popular Pickle
There is so much to love about this video, from the whimsical music which makes it seem as if the cucumbers are just going on holiday, instead of being wrenched from their happy fields and families, then sliced and seasoned for consumption by monstrous hairless apes, to the very phrase "pickle packer." The one omission, understandable in light of 1950s' reticence, is no mention of the cucumber as sex toy.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 10, 2015 -
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Category: Regionalism, Advertising, Industry, Factories and Manufacturing, Farming, Vegetables, Pickles, 1950s
Peas mean something
In 1904, this young lady was dismissed as "demented." Today she might be recognized as a great performance artist.
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern - Apr 12, 1904
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 25, 2015 -
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Category: Food, Vegetables, 1900s
Follies of the Madmen #227
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Yes, our product is number one among insane vegan fashionistas!
From Woman's Day for April 1962.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 18, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Vegetables, 1960s
Mr. Q. Cumber
Some WU-vie sample this and tell me what it tastes like, please. I myself am scared to try.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 17, 2014 -
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Category: Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, Vegetables
Exploding Artichokes
Police have ruled out any kind of artichoke-themed terrorism, theorizing instead that fertilizers on the vegetable may have caused an explosive chemical reaction.
Strangely, this is just the latest in a series of exploding artichokes that have gone off in Italy. Previous incidents occurred in 2003 and 2008. [theregister.co.uk]
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 07, 2014 -
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Category: Food, Vegetables
Petrified Potato Art
As a follow-up to my prior immortal potato post, here's Dave McConkey who claims to have found a way to petrify potatoes, and he then makes works of art out of these perma-potatoes. I'd be curious to know what exactly his process involves, but I doubt it's actual petrification, since soft tissue doesn't petrify (as far as I know).If you want to delve deeper into the mystery of petrified potatoes, check out the Potato Rock Museum, which describes itself as being "all about the search for the elusive 'Potato, Rock' or the 'Petrified Potato' or the Per Mineralized Potato."
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 06, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Vegetables
Immortal Potato
Food preservation news from 1954. I wonder if Dr. Butts' potato is still sitting unchanged on a shelf in some government warehouse. Spokane Daily Chronicle - Apr 2, 1954]
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 02, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Vegetables, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1950s
Historic Explosions in Cauliflower
By artist Brock Davis who, based on his other projects, likes to play with his food.
Space Shuttle Challenger
Nagasaki
Hindenburg
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 06, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Food, Vegetables
Onion As Weather Forecaster
No, we are not talking about the brilliant humor publication, The Onion. Rather, we are interested in this bizarre bit of folk wisdom:
Here's another account, whose hero is depicted below, with greater details as to the proper procedure.
How long has this been going on? At least seventy years, as we can see from this account.
Has anyone ever heard of this before, or know of the origin of the practice?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 25, 2012 -
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Category: Agriculture, Regionalism, Superstition, Vegetables
Vegeterrible
Vegeterrible from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.
That's a mighty big fridge interior.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 20, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Horror, Vegetables, Cartoons
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