Wiener pics of the apocalypse!
I read something very disturbing in "Smithsonian" today. In Germany, the corner butcher shop, complete with artisanal sausages, is being decimated by supermarkets, mass-produced hi-tech sausage, and changes in lifestyle. Things change, no surprise.
But the disturbing thing is what is displacing the traditional artisanal sausage. Somebody came up with the horrifying concept of using some kind of high-tech extrusion process to create sausages with pictures inside them. They extrude two different colors of meat in such a way that when you slice your bologna or wiener, a happy face, corporate icon or cartoon character is revealed in the slice. One of these monstrous sausages even has it's own cartoon show.
I realize that we in America do produce things like dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets and breakfast cereals extruded in many misbegotten forms. But somehow it's more horrifying when done with sausages. We're doomed. This is surely one of the signs of the apocalypse.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/For-German-Butchers-a-Wurst-Case-Scenario.html
Note: sorry I couldn't find a pic to link to, but it's probably better not to have to see it!
But the disturbing thing is what is displacing the traditional artisanal sausage. Somebody came up with the horrifying concept of using some kind of high-tech extrusion process to create sausages with pictures inside them. They extrude two different colors of meat in such a way that when you slice your bologna or wiener, a happy face, corporate icon or cartoon character is revealed in the slice. One of these monstrous sausages even has it's own cartoon show.
I realize that we in America do produce things like dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets and breakfast cereals extruded in many misbegotten forms. But somehow it's more horrifying when done with sausages. We're doomed. This is surely one of the signs of the apocalypse.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/For-German-Butchers-a-Wurst-Case-Scenario.html
Note: sorry I couldn't find a pic to link to, but it's probably better not to have to see it!