Victoria De Capua: conversely: why is food depicted as being happy to be eaten?

honestly I’d much rather see people be horny for vaguely anthropomorphized Go-Gurts than for British politicians

Why does the Australian Go-gurt packaging go to such great lengths to convey that the Go-gurts (plural) are both sentient and afraid of death

conversely: why is food depicted as being happy to be eaten?

have a dear friend who has this framed in her dining room

It tends to stick in the brain

Sepporku

10/10

CW: traditional racist imagery (smiling natives) along with happy animals selling meat in this awesome animated department store ad by Hans Fischerkoesen, who has a half dozen or so epics that are all mind-breaking in utterly different inventive ways. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CUo...

StÃ¼ssgen Advert, Fischerkoesenwww.youtube.com "Das Lockende Ziel",a "Cornelius StÃ¼ssgen" advertisement. Animation by Hans Fischerkoesen.http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.7/articles/moritz1.7.html

Dear god im Himmel @pubtoons.com

Ok so six films, gotta find them all

Stockings ad: The Legs of Babette (or similar name) HUGELY weird behavior Pain meds ad: Nightmarish medley of death and horror scenarios Cigarette ads: Dancing smoke figures (beautiful) A product smoker happily dancing past every bad-luck icon in the world. Those are my favorites. w/find & link

"The Legs of Dolores." I must tell my mother-in-law, Dolores, that she brings them to the yard. CW: supremely poor behavior from every male organism in the ad www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2d2...

Stockings Advert, Fischerkoesenwww.youtube.com YouTube video by baroughter

"The Blue Wonder" CW: might make you buy cigarettes www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS6N...

Das Blaue Wunder, Fischerkoesen (1935)www.youtube.com Another advertisement by animator Hans Fischerkoesen.

Graceful smoke dancers. Where do they go, those smoke rings I blow, each day? Hans Fischerkoesen just being beautiful with second-hand smoke here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lmZ...

Cigarette Advert, "Schall und Rauch", Fischerkoesen (1933)www.youtube.com "Schall und Rauch" by animator Hans Fischerkoesen, 1933. Dancing cigarette smoke.

CW: this ad is a nigh-perfect montage of nightmarish scenarios and images that I'm surprised Hitchcock didn't go with. If you can be triggered by traditional horror stuff, this might well do it. Hans Fischerkoesen, at the jugular, selling product. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5-J...

Underberg Advert, Fischerkoesenwww.youtube.com YouTube video by baroughter

An outing in 1952, with obedient sausages, dangerous kiddie activities, and bottles of cold Coca-Cola that scream when you drink them. Just kidding about the last one, ha ha. Includes a whole new Coca-Cola song! www.youtube.com/watch?v=230i...

1952 "Die Landpartie" (The Outing), (Fischerkoesen), Coca-Cola advertising cartoon, Germany, 2m 43swww.youtube.com 1952 "Die Landpartie" (The Outing), (Fischerkoesen), Coca-Cola advertising cartoon, West Germany, 2m 43s

When the Sun overslept! Phillips to the rescue. I don't recall anything creepy or horrific in this--Fischerkoesen was an animator for all seasons. Dutch, but did a lot of work in Germany, and seems like France as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yxs...

Philips Advert, Fischerkoesen (1937)www.youtube.com YouTube video by baroughter

From 1942, a longer lyrical musicale. I haven't looked in on this one lately, and I apologize if there turns out to be any State-Sponsored content in it. Very Disney-Fleischer kind of stuff here. youtu.be/3dKQLUqgB-0

Weather-Beaten Melody, Fischerkoesen (1942)youtu.be "Scherzo - Verwitterte Melodie" by animator Hans Fischerkoesen. Germany, 1942

In Europe, it goes back to the Middle Ages at least. The Land of Cockaigne, with roasted pigs running around begging to be eaten. Carving knife embedded in the back so you can just take off a slice whenever you want. https://www.arthistorybabes.com/blog/2018/3/7/the-land-of-cockaigne

The Land of Cockaigne — The Art History Babeswww.arthistorybabes.com

Cockaigne has some real strong parallels to the Big Rock Candy Mountains. I couldn’t get through the article without hearing the tune.

It's true! Although the cigarette trees were a post-Columbian innovation.

Also for people who like this stuff, there was a Flickr group which now seems mostly dead, but had some great examples: www.flickr.com/groups/happy...

*Happy Ham*www.flickr.com Everybody has seen them: Those oddly disturbing signs on restaurants or butcher shops or elsewhere, showing whistling octopi or dancing pigs or other animals who are just so thrilled that they are abo...

In the immortal words of James Lileks, "The Quisling Pig" lileks.com/bleats/archi...

LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2019 TUESDAYlileks.com

Same!

The alternative is that we actually think about it for a second and become vegetarians.

I was a cook for 14ish years, and I actually really liked working with meat.

Yeah, I want to take some butchery classes - really want to learn to process carcasses myself.

I've never done the full kit but I have carved and trimmed a lot of little meat pals over the years. I'd actually consider a day job as a butcher but it's very niche and difficult to get into if you don't already have family connections.

I worked in the butcher shop of a grocery store for a year and while it didn’t make me go vegetarian it made me start wanting to buy better quality meat not from factory farms. Nothing like hitting a giant infected cyst in a pig’s spine with the bone saw. That poor thing must have been in agony.

Yeah I've caught some random stuff on the internet of "is this safe to eat?" with raw meat processing and it's like oh, yeah, this is why we have those laws here. It means meat and particularly beef and chicken are expensive but much better baseline quality.

We buy most of our meat from small local butchers that source animals from local farms, yep.

Lol that's when I bow out of this convo.

lol sorry. Though what was funny is I’ve worked in biology before so I was like “oh wow look!” And the old butcher who was training me was like retching into the garbage lolololol But yeah, biology is fucking disgusting when you get down to it.

Tbf I’ve personally met a number of animals I’ve later eaten

I feel this is the fair way to do it

LOL that's fair. I recently switched to being vegetarian for a number of reasons, but I can't help but think the ubiquitous "animals happy to be slaughtered" marketing is for that reason. We don't like to think about what we eat, mostly.

It’s weird how divorced Americans are from where their food comes from. My Açorean family used to have a matança every year where an uncle brought a pig and we killed it and ate it and got drunk. But that also meant i knew where the pig lived and what it ate and how it was treated.

When I was a kid my parents would make a whole day of killing and cleaning the chickens we raised or cutting up the beef cow that similarly lived on the property. It's a different life

I think we can blame M&M’s. They inspired an entire genre of spoof commercials based on M&M’s ads in which they cannibalize each other in the 90's

it goes back so much further than that.

Makes sense, M&M’s are just first thing that comes to my mind

Oh yeah this is an ancient tendency

Now I need Sumerian tablets depicting food on food cannibalism

Probably the same reason slaves were depicted as happy in American iconography.

it's nice to have a sense of purpose

Maybe bc it makes people feel better about taking lives for short lasting enjoyment and nutrition (tho necessary it may be for some people)

I see no evidence of a demand for this. It’s coming from the marketing

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