November 15, 2004

Play With Your Food A Japanese site dedicated to the art of hot dog sculpting, courtesy of Nippon Meat Packers, Inc. Includes instructions, for any of our more ambitious monkeys. [SFW, despite the name of the company.]
posted by jaypro22 20 years ago
  • Hee hee... love the little hot-dog crabs. And the shark is supercute. Of course, this company doesn't just make cute meat critters. They also own a Tokyo baseball team, the Nippon Ham Fighters.
  • Nippon Ham Fighters Great name!
  • Somebody in Japan is paid money to make hot dog sculptures? I'm having difficulty thinking of a cooler job.
  • I'm not that ambitious but I think I could manage the bunnies and one of the flowers. This reminds me of Octodog, which I failed to replicate without the little gadget.
  • The Nippon Ham Fighters' late mascot, a weirdly-shaped pink bird named Fighty, would be an ideal candidate for hot-dog sculpture. But when the Fighters moved to Sapporo this year, poor Fighty was ditched in favour of this bear. A bear, I ask you. What kind of substitute is that for a bicycle-riding pink pterodactyl? I mean, honestly.
  • Fighty was a pterodactyl, mascot of the Nippon Ham Fighters. On his bicycle he liked to ride. But, poor fellow, he was pink. So he got tossed aside. The new mascot is a bear who will eat all their chocolate and drink all their beer. For a bear is real. A bear is actual. And he isn't pink. And, so far, he isn't extinct.
  • ah........*slow...clap...*
  • Beeswacky, you are sublime.
  • yum!