Oh My God, Why Are There Terrifying Little Faces In The Broccoli?
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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Good God!
In before the 'This site is really going downhill' posts. :D
I count 4. Anybody else?
It's people!!!!
What makes this food unacceptable (current tag for this story is "unacceptable food")? Do the broccoli actually have the faces on it, or is just a funny photo edit?
LMAO. I had a hard time finding the face in the original picture!
Damn, that's disturbing. One more reason for my nieces and nephews to refuse to eat broccoli.
Them: Noooo, there are people on my food!
Me: Well, appreciate their sacrifice and eat up. Smiles make everything taste better.
Oh god broccoli is people. I knew it, I just knew it.
There is NO way that is not photoshopped...
Thanks Meg, That'll make salads all the more terrifying to eat.
reminds me of the pizza in Nightmare on Elm Street 4
We now know the precursor to Soylent Green.
Hidden Photoshop shout out FTW....
That's effin' freaky! I don't want to look at it, but I can't help but to keep searching for more heads.
Why the hell are they so happy?! ARGH!
This picture offends me. ;)
@MercuryPDX: I really hope the guy who did this sees that his work isn't going unappreciated. I think if your job is designing frozen vegetable bags this would be the highlight of your year.
Brilliant. This could once again make broccoli "cool" enough to eat.
I wanted to make a joke about 'heads of broccoli,' but it doesn't work. Why couldn't they have hidden the heads in lettuce?!
I've been broccoli-blocked.
I rather not look closely at my hot dog packaging.
You think that's scary?
My money has the devil in it! And look at my grilled cheese sandwich! Just LOOK at it!
A package designer had some fun photoshopping in friends' faces.
An old advertising technique using subliminal images airbrushed into ads to induce you to buy a product. Supposedly it is based on Freudian theory, and appeals to the unconscious mind. It is true. It happens in ads all the time. Women's and men's magazines are loaded with these. If you look with a magnifying glass, you'll see them in the ice cubes in whiskey ads, etc. A book written many years ago called Subliminal Seduction by a fellow named Keyes, I think, elaborates on this in much detail. If you don't think this is a real advertising technique... think again.
Creeeeeeeeepy!! I will never look at broccoli the same way again!
@NikkiSweet: I definitely see 4, not sure about the 5th. The three in the inset, one directly above the rightmost face from the inset, and maaaybe another directly below. Are those the ones you see?
PETA's already on the case!
Maybe they decided to include some of their staff's likenesses on the packaging this way. A little inside joke, if you will.
Exactly what I was thinking. Just their way of "signing" their artwork! It is still a little creepy!
I make a ton of banner ads for my company. When I was playing Portal I started Photoshopping in "the cake is a lie" into some of the backgrounds.
No one ever looks at those things.
@bklynrickel: Subliminal advertising doesn't work. The whole field is based on a hoax perpetrated in 1957. See:
[www.snopes.com]
Soylent Broccoli is made out of people! IT'S MADE OUT OF PEOPLE!
It's broccoli. It was terrifying before I saw the souls of the damned contained therein.
Where's Waldo?
Why are they happy about being eaten?
It reminds me of the happy pig at a BBQ place, why the hell is a pig so happy about BBQ? I mean a happy pig at a kosher place maybe....
/pointless comment
Not so sure about that.
@92BuickLeSabre: I happen to really like broccoli! Ditto brussels sprouts.
Funny anecdote- My younger brother *loved* brussels sprouts for years, having been mislead to believe that they were "green meatballs".
When he found out what they "really" were, he refused to touch them ever again.
Also- I refused to eat ketchup until I was 23. Demanded that my food be served without it, etc etc. After losing a bet I caved and had some on a burger. Turns out it's not that bad.
wow, slow news day? :)
@Carencey: The 3 in the inset, the one below the inset and if you look just above the upside down broccoli to the right of the inset, there's another face.
i have this broccoli, but there are no faces:(
I found this on the packaging too:
Soylent Green is made of people!!! It's people!!!
i find this awesome. a perfectly wholesome and harmless way to fuck with people's heads.
I used to design packaging for a major supermarket label, as well as a long stint with an advertising company that had major food labels in their client list. We (the designers) did stuff like this all the time. Our pictures and our names, we would hide them in the packaging design. Its absolutely amazing that whomever saw this...actually saw it. I mean...seriously...it almost (yeah, almost) never gets noticed. Except that one time. Then youre fired.
That is creepy.