Comments on: Food Fight

Food Fight

Lord_Pall — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:14:38 -0800

Food Fight [Youtube, History of War done with food]

I got a little lost between Korea and Vietnam but found it to be very well done. Could be in bad taste, but that could also just be punny.

By: Science!

Science! — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:22:21 -0800

I liked it. Our chicken nuggets kick some serious ass.

By: Lord_Pall

Lord_Pall — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:23:17 -0800

Yeah but in the end, all we do is make food for the bugs.

By: parallax7d

parallax7d — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:26:23 -0800

As an American, something about shotgun hamburgers makes me feel like everything is going to be ok.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:57:09 -0800

No apple pie? FAIL.

By: telstar

telstar — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:58:53 -0800

Those burgers are no match for the Big McChicken.

By: Malor

Malor — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:04:08 -0800

This has nothing to do with history. It's gratuitous food violence. :-)

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:27:36 -0800

That was more disturbing than I expected.

By: empath

empath — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:36:09 -0800

the annotated Food Fight (as I interpret it): :05 -- Map of the world :10 -- The Germans :13 -- The Jews :17 -- The Holocaust begins :22 -- The French :25 -- France Surrenders :32 -- The Blitz :38 -- Japan :42 -- Pearl Harbor :47 -- The US enters the War in the Pacific :57 -- D-Day 1:05 -- The Liberation of Paris 1:08 -- The US and Russia capture Berlin 1:23 -- Hiroshima 1:30 -- Britain leaves Palestine 1:38 -- Israel founded 1:45 -- Korean War (NK fighting SK with help from soviets) 1:58 -- China invades korea 2:06 -- Stalemate 2:11 -- Cuban Missile Crisis 2:20 -- Communist Revolution in Vietnam 2:25 -- France surrenders 2:29 -- Vietnam War 2:39 -- Arms Race 3:00 -- Iraq invades Kuwait 3:07 -- US troops in Saudi Arabia 3:09 -- SCUDs fired on Israel 3:13 -- Gulf War I 3:25 -- The Intifada 3:42 -- 9/11 4:05 -- The invasion of Afghanistan 4:19 -- Al Quaeda flees to pakistan 4:30 -- Gulf War II (interestingly enough, it seems like a total non-sequitur here, too) 4:47 -- The resistance in Iraq begins 4:53 -- World in ruins, bugs dine on corpses. FIN

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:14:20 -0800

empath, hat's off for dissecting it, subjective as it seemed to me. I kept getting distracted by the falafels. gotta get back to Famous Pita soon! that was a great job. but what a work ~~of love~~.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:15:40 -0800

Those twin towers of cheeseburgers were imploded. Everyone knows towers of cheeseburgers don't collapse at free fall speeds.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:40:49 -0800

This should be mandatory viewing in sub Saharan Africa. See starving millions, THIS is why we have all the food.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:41:36 -0800

Clearly, Osama Bin Laden is really Ronald McDonald.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:52:27 -0800

The US and Russia capture Berlin? Generous of you to give the USSR equal billing, but it was actually just the USSR that captured Berlin.

By: empath

empath — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:16:28 -0800

Consider the historical record corrected, then. I apologize for not being 100% accurate in attributing culinary battle recreations to their historical referents.

By: CKmtl

CKmtl — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:24:19 -0800

I wonder how different the world would be if, instead of a satisfying Bang! or Pow!, actual weapons made a vomitous Blurgh! like the gyoza.

By: rlk

rlk — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:09:10 -0800

That burger patty sure did a number on all that sushi. Those kebabs could use a little of that! Yeah!

By: Gorgik

Gorgik — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:22:11 -0800

This video is from Stefan Nadelman, who also created a cool video for a new-to-me band called Menomena: Evil Bee

By: churl

churl — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:23:45 -0800

Good link, thanks. (The official site has this cheat sheet.)

By: Acey

Acey — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:27:09 -0800

That was brilliantly done. And that cheat sheet helps a lot, I was struggling with some of those more obscure delicacies.

By: Surfurrus

Surfurrus — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:15:55 -0800

Actually, the history of war in the world IS "gratuitous (food) violence"! In other words, I couldn't stomach this.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:46:47 -0800

That burger patty sure did a number on all that sushi. Those kebabs could use a little of that! Yeah! Yeah, right. Because we just haven't caused enough dead kebabs. Or dead chicken nuggets. Brilliant insight, that.

By: champthom

champthom — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:49:01 -0800

Geopolitics never looked so tasty.