The History of War Told Through Culinary Carnage


	The History of War Told Through Culinary Carnage

haraya

3-8-2008 8:33 AM

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food, history, war, video, stefan nadelman, world, meat, entertainment, fight, violence

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3-8-2008 11:11 AM

3-8-2008 7:00 PM

Good one, mousie. Have you spotted the bacon yet?

3-9-2008 12:27 PM

bignosemousie

Where's the bacon??

The cold war is funny.

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Food Fight is an abridged history of war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artthreat.net/2008/02/food-fight-history-war-told-th"><P>I had a blast trying to figure out the symbolism, some of which is more obvious than others.  If you don't have the patience to keep up with the mass of meaty metaphors, <A href="http://homepage.mac.com/stefannadelman/foodfight/cheat.htm">a cheat sheet</A> is available to help you identify the tasty cast members. (Hint: the heaps of beef stroganoff represent the succulent Soviets.)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artthreat.net/2008/02/food-fight-history-war-told-th"><EM>Update: <A href="http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/02/28/history-of-war-throu.html">Boing Boing TV</A> has posted a captioned version of Food Fight for the "history-impared"—their words, not mine.</EM></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/08208923-BB17-46C4-80D5-708C45432C40/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>