MoFA
- Title: “Frustrated Gold-Mining Pepper”
- Media: Pepper. Frustration at lack of gold.
- Submitted by: Ara P.
- Ara referred to this as a "habanero chile fist," but (please work with me here), I am certain that if I had a great-grandfather who was a gold miner who then got angry at not finding any gold in the claim he just bought from a local businessman, this is a pepper-based representation of the face he'd make.
- Title: “Swan Gourd”
- Media: Squash. Fairytale Magic.
- Submitted by: Lynne T.
- Legend has it that this beautiful swan was once just an ugly gourd.
- Title: “Running Chocolate Man”
- Media: Chocolate Crispies.
- Submitted by: Astrid (Germany)
- You no longer need to worry about ruining a diet with delicious snacks! German scientists have produced a confection that exercises for you. Simply consume this tiny chocolate man and he runs his way to your health while being digested. (1 man = 45 minutes on the treadmill)
- Title: “Ze Onions of Love”
- Media: Onions. Love. Oil. High Heat.
- Submitted by: Ericka K.
- Slicing a simple onion reveals ring upon ring of small hearts. Perfect for sautéing, apparently.
- Title: “Pregnant Pepper”
- Media: Momma Pepper. Baby Peppers
- Submitted by: Heather S.
- Heather writes: "After I cut the top off of the seemingly normal pepper, I noticed a tiny baby pepper nestled all snugly in it's peppery womb. Upon removing the poor thing, I noticed that it was not one baby, but two- conjoined twin baby peppers. This whole thing was too traumatizing for me, and I couldn't bring myself to eat the mamma pepper or the baby peppers. To date, the pappa pepper has not been identified." Twin baby peppers! Mazel tov!
- Title: “Chilipeno Tumor”
- Media: Chilipeno. Radiation?
- Submitted by: Luke (Seattle, WA)
- Luke writes: "Long have I dreamed of discovering something worthy of submission to the Museum of Food Anomalies, and today that dream came true when I absent-mindedly reached in to a bag of Penny's Chilipeno Corn Chips and found a fried cornmeal tumor almost the size of my palm."
- Title: “Happily Oblivious Ice Cream”
- Media: Ice Cream. Misunderstanding.
- Submitted by: Jennifer R.
- A quart of ice cream seemingly enjoying it's freedom from the canister. It clearly has no idea what's coming next.
- Title: “Heart-Warming Tomato”
- Media: Tomato. Hurt feelings. Time.
- Submitted by: Sergio V.
- Sergio sends in this tomato in the shape of a heart. It looks as if it had been broken at one time, but is healing nicely. Hearts are like that.
- Title: “Freaky Twiglet”
- Media: Twiglet Triplets
- Submitted by: Marc & Sarah
- I don't even know what a Twiglet is, but how often do you see head-to-tail conjoining?
Oh, a Twiglet
- Title: “Pan Face”
- Media: Oil. Pan. Painful Memories.
- Submitted by: Nancy & Simon H.
- Is this really a "Food Anomaly"? No, probably not. But, I once dropped a cast iron pan onto my face & made an expression very much like the one depicted here in oil. That's worth something, I guess.
