Feminist Anthropomorphized Food Watch

[eredien]

Unexamined assumptions about relationships and women found in a magazine ad for toasted garlic mozzarella crackers:

1. Opposites attract: "...garlic got caught up in a crazy little thing called love with, of all things, Mozzarella."

2. Real people need to reproduce  for a relationship to be viable long-term: "...sure, Tomato and Mozzarella got along, but there was no spark...besides, Tomato was seedless." (Really? Yes, really.)

3. Cheating is fine: "garlic and mozzerella sneaked out, and it was everything garlic had dreamt it would be."

Menu for tomorrow's easter dinner:
- Black bean, mango and quinoa salad with red pepper and cilantro and scallions
- Seitan burgers with citrus-sesame date sauce
- Lowfat chocolate bundt cake

Comments

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

I get the seedless tomato metaphor
(http://www.threadless.com/submission/95943/The_Downside_of_Genetic_Engineering)
but how can we tell that garlic and mozzarella are of opposite sexes?

The horror of miscegenation

[ab3nd.livejournal.com]

How do we know they even have the same number of chromosomes!? The spawn of their illicit union will be shambling horrors, flopping about on malformed limbs and gibbering mindlessly!

...why, yes, I do like H. P. Lovecraft, why do you ask?

Re: The horror of miscegenation

[eredien]

Does cheese even have chromosomes?

[eredien]

I think it's assumed that they are opposite sexes since they're in love. That's what it read like to me.

[eredien]

I think it was somewhat implied by the text regarding seedlessness. I don't think pronouns were used, though.