A Well-Balanced Fictional Meal

A Slurn, a piece of fugu, a bucket of Los Pollos Hermanos and a treat from Mendl’s. So tasty. (Joshua Budich’s Fictional Food show for Gallery 1988)

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Koopa, It's What's For Dinner
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Fictional Foods

Fictional Foods

A good selection, though I would personally pass on the Merciless Pepper of Quetzalacatenango and the monkey brains. Can you name all 12? (Fictional Foods by Joshua Budich)

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Fast Food Kills
Selleck Waterfall Sandwich
Koopa, It's What's For Dinner

Cream Of Mushroom Super

This is what I imagine Andy Warhol would paint, if he were into video games. And alive - I guess that would help too. (dann designs)

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KISS Meets The Toad Of Mushroom Kingdom

Andy Burger: 15 Minutes of Flame Broiled Madness

Captain Picard: Make It Tso's!

This just made me laugh, simple as that. Also it meant I got link to my favourite Picard video in the Previously section. (Comical Concept via Comics Alliance)

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Star Poker: Full Meme
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Fake Vintage Japanese Ad Characters

Take that, Mr. Sparkle! Juan Molinet has designed eight faux Japanese mascots for, as he puts it. "just for the fun of it."

Above: Haneda Tonkatsu Co.
Below: Hokaido Industrial Sushi Food Co.


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Nerdelicious: Ten Geeky Gingerbread Creations

'Tis the season to break out your inner craft geek. Here a few seasonal concoctions to inspire your own creations. Me, I just eat Turtles. Above, Zero Lives blogger Das Chupa brings us an Angry Birds themed Gingerbread house. I would play that.

A Gingerbread AT-AT. As the card says, that's awesome. As far as I can tell it was made by (or at least photographed by) Chez 282. I first saw it on pacalin's site.

A Gingerbreadhenge, for all you pagans out there, by The Dude (no, not that one.) Found on Clonehenge, which has "the most complete list of Stonehenge replicas on the internet, nay, marry, in the wide world!" I love the internet.

A gingerbread collection on Popped Culture wouldn't be complete without some sort of Super Mario reference. (Super Mario Gingerbread by Mike Bade, via Nerd Bastards)

The Star Trek GingerBorg Enterprise is a gingerbread replica of the Enterprise D. Green splotches indicate that Borgs have taken over and are destroying things with lasers. (By audreyh4 at instructables)

Das Chupa (see Angry Birds above) started his creations with a gingerbread Pac-Man arcade game.

Anna-Maria Oléhn's TARDIS gingerbread house can fit a surprising amount of Christmas treats inside.

And what's a Dr. Who TARDIS without Daleks? They are vegan too, so you know they're truly evil. By Johnson Cameraface.

The gingerboard (gingerbread motherboard) was created in Sweden by Benny, Monica, Anna-Maria and Erik. (Via mediatinker and You Bent My Wookie, who has a great gallery of gingerbread creations)

“I ate his body with some jelly beans and a nice glass of milk thtthththththththth”. I know this gingerbread Hannibal Lecter is only a t-shirt, but somebody ought to make it. (Cannibal by Glennz, via Shirtoid)

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Gingerbread Man Dissected

You Have a Gingerbread Man In Your Ear

O Christmas Tweet, O Christmas Tweet...

Koopa, It's What's For Dinner

I could go for some Bowser ribs and some burgers made from ground Koopa. I imagine it's what Mario eats after he finishes his digital killing spree.

Jude Buffum explores the world of video game meat for the upcoming show Pixel Pushers, including Koopa, Ganon, Chocobo, Pukupuku, Gesso and Yoshi (below).

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Inglourious Plummers

Super Mario Anatomy

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Crabby Joe's: The Freshest Catch In The Universe

Get you pop culture seafood Blue Plate Special while it's hot — Admiral Ackbar, Mr. Krabs, King of the Sea Monkeys, Ariel, Dr. Zoidberg, and Abe Sapian — but no Prawns. (Blue Plate Special by Ian Leino at TeeFury - only $9 until midnight)

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It's A (Finger) Trap!
The Life Of A Disney Princess
In The '80s Junkyard

Back Away From The Donuts, RoboCop!

The intervening years have not been kind to RoboCop. So do you think his armor is flexible or does it have to keep getting rebuilt as he packs on the pounds? (Too Many Donuts via Glennz Tees)

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Battlestar Galact-egg-a

No matter what kind of Easter eggs you have hiden around your house, Natania Barron's Battlestar Galact-egg-a eggs are infinitely cooler.

"I settled on some of the cast of Battlestar Galactica for a few reasons, but mostly because of the show’s themes of death, resurrection, and rebirth. I mean, that’s what Spring is about, right? We can at least agree on that." (Geeks Are Sexy via The Presurfer)

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Easter Whore
Eggsploitation
The Second Coming of Chocolate Jesus

Han Solosicle

Suspended animation inside an orange creamsicle? Sign me up! Mmmm, tastes like carbonite. (Han Solo Pop by David Schwen, via TeeFury)

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Selleck Waterfall Sandwich

Club Sandwich

Ice Cream Sandwich

Pastrami Sandwich

Do you like Tom Selleck? Waterfalls? Sandwiches? Then are you in for a treat! Today's dose of surreal absurdity is courtesy of the tumblr Selleck Waterfall Sandwich. These are my favourite sandwiches, now I just wish Magnum P.I. was on somewhere. (Link via @FPhollisha)

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Higgins! Call Off the Dogs!
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Would You Like A Brain Slug With That?

Woman: We favour unreasonably huge subsidies to the Brain Slug Planet.
Fry: OK, but what are the Brain Slugs who control you gonna do for the working man?
Woman: Attach Brain Slugs to them.
Fry: Sure, you say that now!

I have never seen anything more delicious and terrifying than Alicia Traveria's Brain Slug cupcakes. I'd even consider attaching one to my head except that I'd be concerned the poor little thing would starve to death. (Link via Neatorama)

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Shawarma Initiative

From the shawarma outlet at Dharma food court. Buy it soon, if only to piss off all the people at TeeFury who are so confused and angry about Lost references and Middle Eastern food options.

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History Of The Turducken

Happy Day Before Shopping Thanksgiving to my American friends. Hopefully some of you will be eating this magical beast. If you'd like to but haven't already started preparing it, it may be too late. Or you could toss it into the microwave, as far as I know. I'm not much of a cook.

Be sure to read the complete comic at Medium Large.

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Raise A Little Hell!

It might be more appropriate to say raise a tiny bit of hell. An almost infinitesimal amount of hell, because if tossing crackers into soup is what passes for hell-raising these days, my kitchen could pass for Hades.

Oh yeah! I'm totally going to rock out my soup with some saltines! Woo!
I just don't get advertising sometimes.

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Juvenile BBQ

Who am I kidding? I would have loved to have these up at the cottage for a wienie and marshmallow roast. Hot beef injection anyone?
(Bits & Pieces via The Daily What)

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Fast Food Kills

Meet the Fast Food Mafia: Ron 'The Don' McDonald, 'The Colonel' Sanders, "Little" Caesar, 'Wendy' Gwendolen, B.K. 'The King'. You could almost envision it if health concerns drove junk food underground. Anytime you prohibit something, it creates a black market. From pop artist Andrew Shirey. (Link via The Daily What)


Now it turns out that yesterday was National Junk Food Day and I missed it. Lucky for me I ended up celebrating it anyhow. But Listicles was paying attention and pulled together 20 Pieces of Junk Food Art. These are a couple of my favourites.


Fast Food Kills, from pop artist Steven Smith


Junk Food Vertumnus from Andy Council. I guess you are what you eat. Shudder.

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Ronald McDonald's Dark Side
Would You Like Fries With That?
I'm Lovin' It

Frying Up Some Iggys

Mmm, nothing cures a hangover like a Lust For Life breakfast, with a heap of fried Iggys. From artist Scott Campbell via his show at Gallery1988. This gallery continues to melt my brain with concentrated awesomeness.

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Vincent Van Wolverine

We All Scream For... Brussels Sprouts

Broccoli and cabbage, yum! Who wouldn't want this truck in their neighbourhood? Reminds me of the cart that drives around here in the summer, ringing a bell. You start salivating, until you see it's the knife-sharpening guy. Oh, I've got a dull blade for you!

From t-shirt desginer Glennz, who must have seen Bart of Darkness too:
"Chili! Red-hot Texas-style chili! And we got gingerale. Boiling-hot Texas-style gingerale!

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What Would Pacman Eat?