Draft:Anthropomorphized Food

An anthropomorphized food is a food which had been attributed human traits, emotions, or intentions. Foods with human characteristics often appear in culture and in modern media and are often given the anecdotal properties.

Appearance in Modern Media

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The 1918 Australian children's book The Magic Pudding a talking magical pudding with thin limbs and a bad-temper.

Since 1954 the mascot characters of M&M's are their candies possessing limbs and human qualities (with names and personality connected to the color of their coating).

In 1971 Mayor Mccheese has appeared as part of a McDonald's advertising campaign, who was an anthropomorphic hamburger. In the following years, the restaurant produced a cast of similar characters.

The 1984 Ghostbusters movie introduced the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, which became one of the iconic symbols of the franchise.

The 2000s Adult Swim adult animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force has an anthropomorphized a meatball, milkshake and french fries as its protagonists.

The 2011 animated sitcom series The Amazing World of Gumball showcases lots of sentient foods such as peanuts, milk, potatos, bananas, a hot dog and an ice cream.

The 2013 animated science fiction comedy film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 the foods possess animal-like behavior, imitating the likeliness of a real animal.

 
Illustration from the Gingerbread Man story

The 2016 adult animated comedy film Sausage Party featured an anthropomorphic sausage as it's main character next to other grocery items.

In Folklore

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The Hungarian folktale The sausage, the frog and the mouse (A Kolbász, a béka és az egér) portrayed the sausage as a friend of the two animals and a great cook.

There is also another Hungarian tale named A hólyag, a szalmaszál és a tüzes üszök (The bladder, the straw and the burning ember) in which the bladder was shown to be unobliging and "epicaricatic" (Hungarian: kárörvendő).

In the Ashanti tale 'Talk' the story centers around a talking yam, with human attributes who is offended and does not want to be sold on the market.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster also has human like qualities, the diety of the Pastafarians.

The Gingerbread boy feature a living gingerbread man who escapes from the house he was baked in.

The Egg, Humpty Dumpty is also a popular a popular character, known from nursery rhymes.

The Japanese Yokai Shio no Choji is a spirit of a horse connected to its meat which proceeded to torture the man eating it by forcing itself down his throat.

See also

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