Fetus cookie cutter
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Fetus cookie cutter
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, November 13, 2008 10:16 AM
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#1 posted by The Unusual Suspect , November 13, 2008 10:30 AM
The cookie and the cutter in the adjacent photos don't match.
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#2 posted by dccarles , November 13, 2008 10:36 AM
It's a conspiracy! That, or the cookie changes shape while baking.
I thought the reflected 'eye' in the cookie cutter was very creepy.
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#3 posted by ErikO23 , November 13, 2008 10:43 AM
just don't pull the cookies out of the oven before they are fully baked.
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#4 posted by The Unusual Suspect , November 13, 2008 10:46 AM
The cookie GAINS anatomical detail while baking?
I guess it's true: bakery recapitulates ontogeny.
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#5 posted by mdh , November 13, 2008 10:49 AM
But will it fool the zombies?
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#6 posted by jackie31337 , November 13, 2008 10:52 AM
They would go well with this cake.
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#7 posted by Anonymous , November 13, 2008 10:58 AM
Gingerbread men, and peeps are one thing, but ...somehow, I couldn't bring myself to bite the head off that one.
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#8 posted by mhlaxp , November 13, 2008 11:06 AM
Oh god, these cookies are a disaster! They're falling apart before we even get them off the pan! Abort! Abort!
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#9 posted by Cre8tiv_One , November 13, 2008 11:14 AM
So, what kind of batter do you have to use?
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#10 posted by Teller , November 13, 2008 11:18 AM
Like looking at a sonogram of the Pillsbury Doughboy.
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#11 posted by Talia , November 13, 2008 11:18 AM
as anyone who's ever made cookies with a cookie cutter can attest, getting the dough out of the cutter without distorting it a little is tricky.
The distortions likely came in when someone was removing the dough, pre-cooking, and they stretched the sides of it a bit as they were getting it out of the cutter. Its to be expected, really. Rarely will you see a cut cookie that's exactly like its cutter, unless its something really simple, like perfectly round.
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#12 posted by pork musket , November 13, 2008 11:27 AM
That's awesome. I have an urge to show up at a pro-life rally and hand these out to the activists to see how they react.
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#13 posted by Antinous , November 13, 2008 11:28 AM
Like looking at a sonogram of the Pillsbury Doughboy.
The Pillsbury Doughboy died. Of a yeast infection and internal injuries from being poked in the abdomen.
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#14 posted by The Unusual Suspect , November 13, 2008 11:34 AM
"The Pillsbury Doughboy died. Of a yeast infection..."
Rejoice, for he shall be risen.
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#15 posted by mdh , November 13, 2008 11:36 AM
I have an urge to show up at a pro-life rally and hand these out to the activists to see how they react.
If you do, report back. I really need to know if these things fool the zombies.
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#16 posted by Teller , November 13, 2008 11:36 AM
Yeah, I was at the service. We all got baked.
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#17 posted by Talia , November 13, 2008 11:39 AM
I couldn't make it to the funeral, but I sent flours.
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#18 posted by The Lizardman , November 13, 2008 11:45 AM
Mmmmmm....making abortion even more delicious
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#19 posted by shadowfirebird , November 13, 2008 12:01 PM
Is that really how you folks in the US think foetus is spelled? How cute.
;)
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#20 posted by minTphresh , November 13, 2008 12:06 PM
on boing-boing there once was a foetus/ who screamed out to all" please don't eat us"/ wire hangers we shun/ yet we get baked for fun/but if you eat us you'll have to excrete us!
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#21 posted by elendae , November 13, 2008 12:25 PM
This will be the best christmas EVER!
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#22 posted by help i cant comfirm my username themelonbread , November 13, 2008 12:45 PM
@shadowfirebird and mintphresh:
Please, for the love of God, spell it "fetus".
Medieval Latin often dropped diphthongs like "oe" and "ae" and made them simply "e". Some well-intentioned yet uninformed English speaker then proceeded to give "fetus" and "cetera" back the vowels that they were never missing and created such abominations like "foetus", "et caetera" and "et coetera".
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#23 posted by a_user , November 13, 2008 1:15 PM
@22
wait wasn't the spelling changed to show the US was free from British Imperialism?
I went to the theatre and on the the programme, in the very centre, was a very skilful and colourful engraving of a foetus. Like in an encyclopaedia.
Anyroads - time to resurrect the equally appetising cannibal and toilet restaurant threads
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/28/asia-food- trend-cann.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/03/ta iwans-toilet-bowl-.html
http://yeinjee.com/asianpop/toi let-themed-restaurants-in-taiwan/
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#24 posted by phoenix , November 13, 2008 1:29 PM
Now then, if I add some pinkish icing, can we call it placenta? :D
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#25 posted by Antinous , November 13, 2008 1:35 PM
Or some sugar crumbles and call it vernix.
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#26 posted by PFlint , November 13, 2008 1:41 PM
Thank goodness the election is over. Now BoingBoing can return to bringing us wonderful WHAT THE....!?
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#27 posted by Antinous , November 13, 2008 1:49 PM
It makes more sense when you see it with the Dave, Frank and HAL cookie cutters.
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#28 posted by Rezpect , November 13, 2008 1:58 PM
Tacky and wonderful! A perfect gift for the expectant mother who also loves to bake!
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#29 posted by AGF , November 13, 2008 2:51 PM
Wow.
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#30 posted by kablooey , November 13, 2008 2:58 PM
What really floors me is the caption: "No holiday baby shower would be complete without fetus cookies...". Wow.
Love the idea of distributing them at antiabortion demos.
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#31 posted by chgoliz , November 13, 2008 4:04 PM
If this artifact had been on any other blog, I wouldn't have dared to read the comments. It's the sort of thing that could go so wrong so quickly.
I too would love to see the reaction at an anti-choice rally. Let them eat...cookie.
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#32 posted by AGF , November 13, 2008 4:51 PM
There are these awful antiabortion posters up around the university here - I'd love hand out these cookies around them!!!
I think this was on boingboing before?
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#33 posted by Halloween Jack , November 13, 2008 5:29 PM
Nothing beats the great taste of fetus!
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#34 posted by help i cant comfirm my username themelonbread , November 13, 2008 5:59 PM
@23: If you look up "foetus" in any dictionary, they generally just describe it as a (British) variant on fetus.
Fetus lupetus!
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#35 posted by Takuan , November 13, 2008 6:23 PM
the terminology bruited about needs refining;
not "pro-life", absolutely not. "Pro-slavery", "anti-women", "anti-choice", "pro-rape", mo better.
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#36 posted by sonny p fontaine , November 13, 2008 6:47 PM
They couldn't possibly be as delicious as an actual human fetus.
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#37 posted by sswaan , November 13, 2008 7:25 PM
#4 The Unusual Suspect
The cookie GAINS anatomical detail while baking?
I guess it's true: bakery recapitulates ontogeny.
Geektastic. I love it.
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#38 posted by Pipenta , November 13, 2008 8:05 PM
Sure, hand these cookies out at anti-choice events. Just be sure to ice them with a decorative mixture of confectioner's sugar and ipecac.
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#39 posted by isopraxis , November 13, 2008 10:35 PM
Anybody wanna buy a coelecanth cookie cutter?
I could make one tomorrow. I work in a pro-life and conflictedly pro-evolution cookie cutter factory, (the growth-industry of cookies do recognise every sugar cookie segment of the demographic from Christian to Monsterism.)
We've even got the FSM, but you've got to buy it in a package with a delicious Jesus on the Cross, Muhammed, Shiva, Gotinda, Buddah, JHWH and Jah: The religious (and slightly redundant) cookie cutter experience.
And let me tell you, Jesus Christ is so tasty with pink icing - I can't help but yearn for delicious april cookie crucifixions. It makes the eucharist profane in comparison.
With all this, I don't even feel the need to mention our blasphemy line of cookie cutters.
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#40 posted by Pipenta , November 14, 2008 12:44 AM
I would swoon for a coelacanth cookie cutter.
Does it come as part of a living fossils set?
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#41 posted by Beanolini , November 14, 2008 1:29 AM
#4, The Unusual Suspect:
I guess it's true: bakery recapitulates ontogeny.
I would love to see bakery recapitulating phylogeny with an 'ascent of man' set of cookie cutters.
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#42 posted by a_user , November 14, 2008 6:02 AM
@34 I'm aware that it's a spelling used in the UK, I think you missed my point, which I will now spell out :)
US/UK spelling variants came about by the US wishing to show it's independence from British culture. I was merely showing my independence from US culture.
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#43 posted by Hattmannen , November 14, 2008 6:34 AM
@ #1 "The cookie and the cutter in the adjacent photos don't match."
Do I sense a shopped picture? Seruously, look at it, the backgrounds don't even match.
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#44 posted by FoetusNail , November 14, 2008 6:52 AM
Concerning the light patterns in the cutter, there is a name, which escapes me now, for the bright point created where circles of light reflected from the inside walls of a cylinder intersect. In the cutter photo this point is found in the abdomen and eye. You can see these patterns of light on the surface of the coffee in a sunlit mug.
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#45 posted by Cool Products , November 14, 2008 7:26 AM
I would love to bring a pan of these to my family Christmas party. I would love to see the reactions by my Jesus-loving, gun-toting extended family.
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#46 posted by joanna , November 14, 2008 11:27 AM
Isopraxis, how about a link? I have blasphemous cookies to make!
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#47 posted by arkizzle , November 17, 2008 6:16 PM
A User, you possibly missed MelonBread@34's point.
This is from the New Oxford American Dictionary (Apple's built-in dictionary):
"USAGE The spelling foetus has no etymological basis but is recorded from the 16th century and until recently was the standard British spelling in both technical and nontechnical use. In technical usage, fetus is now the standard spelling throughout the English-speaking world."
So it appears that the 'oe' spelling was an added flourish, rather than the 'American' version being a utilitarian departure. This is all news to me too though, I always spelt it 'oe', and hadn't noticed the prevalence of 'fetus' in technical usage, over here in Britain.
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#48 posted by Antinous , November 17, 2008 6:37 PM
I always spelt it 'oe'
I, for one, never welcomed our poncey, faux-Latin overlords.
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#49 posted by Takuan , November 17, 2008 6:41 PM
that's "pouncey, fauxe-Latine"
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#50 posted by robulus , November 17, 2008 9:55 PM
@43
Yep. You can tell by the pixels.
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#51 posted by EnerG , November 18, 2008 6:27 AM
Baking time...9 months?
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#52 posted by arkizzle , November 18, 2008 10:28 AM
Meh. I just spelt it how I was taught to. I wasn't such a pedant when I was 9 (not true at all actually) :D
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#53 posted by shinny , December 3, 2008 8:45 AM
If you vomit this cookie... is that an abortion?
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