Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Bite Your Tongue / Fun and Games Kitchen Ink
Posted by Nicki Wood on Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:38 AM
I love tattoos, and think they are the very epitome of hotness. Never got one myself, though, because I couldn't conjure an image, or even a noun, that summed it all up.
But that's because I hadn't discovered food tattoos. Chowhound spotted the trend recently and has a Top Ten food tattoos feature. A bounteous banana split! A porkalicious pig! A fleeing truffle! Now here was a category that, unlike a Chinese character or a celtic knot, that you could commit to for life.
Flickr has a food tattoos pool, too. Apparently cupcakes are a popular new tattoo. I love the brilliant banana here. Not sure I could commit to a banana for life, but okay.
The Flickr stream includes a tattoo of likeable Mr. Kool-Aid that's the tattoo opposite of food adoration, and I'd love to interview the owner. Who hates Kool-Aid? Enough to get a tattoo of it?
It's too good a topic to stop here, so Bites will periodically update this important story. If you were to get a food tattoo, what would it be? And just as important, where?
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I believe the banana tattoo is probably a Velvet Underground/Andy Warhol reference.
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I got the Warhol bit from the style but the Underground part escaped me. Still. For life?
I'm not sure I could get a food tat. Having just recently gotten my first tattoo, I think I understand the level of commitment required...and I'm not sure any one food item, word, or implement would appeal for the rest of my forever. Something to thing about though...
How come that portrait above the Kool Aid Man looks so much like Fluffernutter?
I'm just sayin'...
There's a Jack Ziegler cartoon I love of a burly guy pulling rows of toast out of an oven, and his bicep bears a tattoo that reads, "Born to Eat Toast."
