This picture is of a package of Cascadian Farms broccoli. Look carefully. Then try not to scream in horror.
Here’s a close-up. They look so happy. And green. And decapitated.
WTF, BROCCOLI? [Bread & Honey] (Thanks, Ryan!)
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Is it me or does that face on the package look creepily like Rush Limbaugh?????????????????
Some package design company just lost a client.
Anyone else notice that the faces are all smiling? I smell a subliminal message. I bet they did this to make their brand of broccoli more appealing.
thanks, i am now officially gonna have f*cked up dreams tonight.
Heh. Just some prepress geeks havin fun. Surprised they even resolve given the generally crappy quality of flexo printing on plastic film.
mmm soylent broccoli
heh, Organic brocolli
that is so awesome. Its probably the guy who made the graphic and his friends. How funny would it be to point that out.
“Dan. Look at this.”
“…”
“See? Do you see yourself?”
“Oh man. I hope you don’t get fired. But that is pretty awesome.”
Subliminal Seduction, anyone?
Seriously, I read this book when I was a teen — and woke up screaming. This doesn’t seem like some photoshopper’s cute joke to me — IT’S EVIL.
Wait a minute.. Cardassians don’t eat broccoli!
Look REALLY close and there’s a sign that says “Thanks for the free ad space…suckers”
Those are the souls of the migrant workers that died getting that broccoli to your table. You can tell by the smiles.
Yuck – I like broccoli but those pictures make it look like you are eating living creatures.
Way back in a High School Psychology class I did a paper on subliminal advertising. It was actually quite fascinating how many every day products used to use things like this. Normally things like naked women and the word sex are used to subliminally stimulate our minds but faces, death related words and other such things are also used. If you ever have free time it is quite an intriguing subject.
My only thoughts on this are essentially why? and then, that is so, so odd.
I was going to say, I feel raped. But instead, I’ll say, I feel cannibalized. Better?
one of my friends totally found that like, 7 years ago.
shit… now every time my vegan friends come for dinner and explain that they don’t eat anything with a face… I will start uncontrollable giggles… and have to carve the faces off their broccoli…
This just adds to the problems I have preparing food… I still get the giggles preparing potatoes after watching this youtube video…
What the hell were you smoking? I mean, I never sit and stare at the packaging that long…
They have been putting “Faces” in ads for a long time. Next time you see an ad for some kind of drink, try looking closely at the ice cubes in the glass – it is all a subliminal thing, kinda like what they do to you at the movies (ya know, they insert a frame of a picture of Popcorn and the next thing you know, you are getting the extra large with butter). Still really creepy to see those happy little broccoli people.
Looks like it is the founder of the company among others. Look at http://www.cascadianfarm.com/About.aspx
The founder is clearly one of the heads.
That’s hilarious. I love it.
MY GOD, SOMEONE HELP THEM!
Oh wait, they’re in broccoli. No one likes or eats broccoli. Carry on.
I think it’s freaking brilliant!
… that is pretty freaking creepy…
The ultra vegans are right it is alive.
Photoshop makes everything better!
Reminds me of Soilant Green.
Reminds me of the Lost in Space episode where Dr. Smith runs into the Tybo the Carrot man!
Somewhere someone is enjoying is photoshop skills.
Meanwhile someone else is trying to find that guy.
Wow! that’s Freaky! I have to go look for this at the market. My wife might scream is she sees it.
This proves Intelligent Design theory is hog wash.
At least they are smiling about the prospect of being eaten!
Thanks for killing my liking of broccoli, Cascadian Farms.
Holy shit. I’m definitely taking a closer look at my broccoli next time. Even if it’s just photoshop.
Soylent Gree-broccoli is people!
BROCCOLI IS PEOPLE!
See this is why I never eat broccoli.
“Soylent Green is people!” ROTFLMAO
Am I the only one that thinks that face looks like Rush Limbaugh?
So that’s what happened to the Jolly Green Giant …
this is creapier
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Those are probably the people who work at the retouching studio. I’m not kidding.
Just checked this out at our local grocery store. These faces are legit. creepy. anybody know if it is the founders of cascadian farm? can’t tell
I think the brocoli folks had other inspiration
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page1756.html
Soylent Green anybody?
Smiling faces sometimes pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don’t tell the truth uh
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
that can’t be real… can it?
Those have been there for years. I posted this at the original blog the day it showed up there:
I’ve actually seen these before. Around 7 years ago, my friend and I were incredibly high and wandering the local Safeway looking for something to eat. My friend, who at the time was the head purchaser of organic foods for another grocery chain, excitedly dragged me over to the frozen foods aisle to show me packages of not only broccoli, but corn and other frozen items as well, with teeny tiny little faces ‘shopped in to very inconspicuous places. My friend dealt with the company regularly and he told me that they were the faces of employees and their children.
Months later, I would remember this experience while shopping with a new girlfriend. I dragged her over to show her the faces, but alas there were none to be found, and I was thought to be insane. I called my friend right there on the spot and he confirmed to me that the company had changed hands or management or something, and the little heads had stopped appearing.
I couldn’t eat that for fear of eating some poor guy’s face!
It’s called subliminal attraction. Every person on this earth sees distorted faces in their dreams. Thus, when a person sees the same thing. very subtly. in an advertisement they spend an extra 3 to 5 seconds looking at it. That’s enough time to catch the name of the brand or the picture of the logo. It’s called advertising and it worked very well thanks to this site.