www.breadedcats.com
February 10, 2012 7:44 AM   Subscribe

www.breadedcats.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their bread, or why.
posted by radwolf76 (51 comments total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
 
Blame Colbert SuperPAC. Seriously.
posted by Dark Messiah at 7:49 AM on February 10, 2012 [3 favorites]


I think we've just stumbled across someone's food blog.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 7:51 AM on February 10, 2012


That is creeping me out. I'm not even sure why.
posted by Celsius1414 at 7:52 AM on February 10, 2012 [2 favorites]


El Gatoast!
posted by hal9k at 7:53 AM on February 10, 2012 [5 favorites]


I know this is as Metafilter hot topic, but it seems obvious to me that these people have declawed their cats.

Or drugged them.

Or my beloved cats have a much. much, much lower tolerance for nonsense.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 7:54 AM on February 10, 2012 [3 favorites]


1st thought: why is this a thing
2nd thought: our cats are going to hate me after tonight
posted by backseatpilot at 7:54 AM on February 10, 2012 [11 favorites]


I'm feeling a very. strong. need. to do this to my cats...
posted by supermedusa at 7:56 AM on February 10, 2012


This struck me as something that was lame before it was a thing, and has since become super-lame. But maybe I just hate this look-at-my-quirky-twee-photooooes sort of thing. And also food-wasting.
posted by uncleozzy at 8:00 AM on February 10, 2012


Dang, I hate inbred cats.
posted by scruss at 8:02 AM on February 10, 2012 [9 favorites]


Do these people never sleep? Because my cats would kill me in mine, were I to attempt to bread them.
posted by dejah420 at 8:03 AM on February 10, 2012 [2 favorites]


Another reason dogs are better than cats. Dogs are way too smart hungry to be breaded.
posted by headnsouth at 8:03 AM on February 10, 2012


We breaded Fiona T. Cattington (link goes to F'book profile: she will accept friend requests from literally anyone, so knock yourself out if you want to be Facebook friends with a cranky, runty gray tabby). And I can assure you she has not been declawed, nor was she drugged, nor was she particularly happy about it. But making fun of the cat is one of our primary means of amusement around the slkinsey household.
posted by slkinsey at 8:05 AM on February 10, 2012 [3 favorites]


Yet another challenge for the post-apocolyptic anthropologists.
posted by brain_drain at 8:05 AM on February 10, 2012 [9 favorites]


This struck me as something that was lame before it was a thing, and has since become super-lame. But maybe I just hate this look-at-my-quirky-twee-photooooes sort of thing. And also food-wasting.

You are completely ignoring the cat humiliation part of this, which can absolve pretty much any sin.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:06 AM on February 10, 2012


I, too, wonder how people actually managed this. My cats would likely not tolerate such insolence.
posted by asnider at 8:06 AM on February 10, 2012


When I read the URL, I immediately thought of 'breaded' as in chicken fingers. Yes, I'm a sick fuck.
posted by jonmc at 8:09 AM on February 10, 2012 [2 favorites]


People - tuna packed in oil. You can get a cat to put it's head damn near anywhere with the proper application of tuna packed in oil.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 8:10 AM on February 10, 2012


I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their bread, or why.

But we thank them anyway.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 8:10 AM on February 10, 2012


Toxoplasma gondii made me do it, m'lud.

You are completely ignoring the cat humiliation part of this, which can absolve pretty much any sin.

We're not laughing with you, Mr Tibbles, we're laughing at you.
posted by rory at 8:13 AM on February 10, 2012 [1 favorite]


cat humiliation

Honestly, our big, black tomcat loves both accessories and attention. He'd be all about this. When we put his ridiculous, ruffly-red-velvet jingle-bell collar on at Christmastime, he struts around like he's cock of the walk. He knows how great he looks.
posted by uncleozzy at 8:18 AM on February 10, 2012 [3 favorites]


I don't know that it's really possible to predict what a cat will and won't abide by. I've never tried putting bread on one but my parents' cat really likes it when you slap her on top of the head. Not hard or anything, just little firm slaps in rapid succession. She loves that shit. Leans into it and everything. It's entirely possible that having bread put on them just sort of presses some rarely-found cat button and they're completely okay with it. Cats are weird.
posted by FAMOUS MONSTER at 8:26 AM on February 10, 2012 [5 favorites]


And also food-wasting.

Wait, the people don't eat these sandwiches? I don't have a cat so wasn't sure how this worked. Explains the lack of condiments though, I guess.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 8:31 AM on February 10, 2012 [1 favorite]


I love this, but my husband would say it was a waste of food, and my son would tell me I was being mean. *sigh* (Some days it's hard being me.)
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 8:37 AM on February 10, 2012


Do people not eat white bread any more?
posted by arcticwoman at 8:39 AM on February 10, 2012


Is this the sort of thing you need a cat to do?
posted by Gilbert at 8:39 AM on February 10, 2012 [1 favorite]


Well at least I know I'm not the only one who's had cats that are way into carbs. I have one cat who can spot what bread or bagels look like and will decimate and starch left lying around. Said cat also loves lentils. Who knew?
posted by radiocontrolled at 8:40 AM on February 10, 2012


As Dark Messiah alluded, Cobert said last week on his show that all of his Super PAC funds -- over $1,000,000 -- were going to breadedcats. Given that this site looks to be only a couple of days old, I think odinsdream has got it.
posted by rtimmel at 8:41 AM on February 10, 2012


Another reason dogs are better than cats.

Is this really a breaded cat? With a bone around its neck in addition to the bread around its head? It looks like dog owners also don't want to be left out of the fun. (If 'fun' is the right word for all this.)
posted by LeLiLo at 8:41 AM on February 10, 2012


What was the name of the bunny with the pancake on its head that used to be MeFi's mascot?
posted by sevenyearlurk at 8:42 AM on February 10, 2012


What was the name of the bunny with the pancake on its head that used to be MeFi's mascot?

Oolong.
posted by uncleozzy at 8:43 AM on February 10, 2012 [2 favorites]


Do people not eat white bread any more?

We never buy it... haven't eaten white bread except in a hamburger or hotdog bun for years. Screw the health reasons... white bread is just kind of gross. There' so much delicious flavour hiding in that loaf of rye.. or whole wheat... mmm...


Also, I may have to try this on members of my cat herd. I predict one or two successes followed by the loss of a lot of blood as I move down the line.
posted by utsutsu at 8:53 AM on February 10, 2012 [1 favorite]


When was the Colbert thing? Because a friend of mine and I suspected that this was something Gawker invented.
posted by lilnublet at 8:55 AM on February 10, 2012


We tried this with a paper bag. Yorvit was unamused and Roswell was all "Are you fucking kidding me?"

I don't think bread would bring any more success.
posted by rtha at 8:59 AM on February 10, 2012 [1 favorite]


I think this cat pretty much expresses all cats' feelings about this.
posted by LoudMusic at 9:00 AM on February 10, 2012


Nah, Lowly Worm started it. Those cats think the bread is haunted.
posted by chapps at 9:06 AM on February 10, 2012


Another reason dogs are better than cats. Dogs are way too smart hungry to be breaded.

There's a reason it's not called beecats.com
posted by FatherDagon at 9:10 AM on February 10, 2012 [1 favorite]


Screw the health reasons... white bread is just kind of gross.

Tacky bread, my MIL called it. It is gross, with three exceptions:

grilled cheese sandwiches
post-Thanksgiving leftover sandwiches
homegrown tomato sandwiches
posted by headnsouth at 9:10 AM on February 10, 2012


I hear most of those pictures are actually photoshop fakes. CAT-SCAM!!!
posted by evilmidnightbomberwhatbombsatmidnight at 9:15 AM on February 10, 2012


I like how there's almost an universally shared look of "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?! I HATE YOU!" on all the cats.

It seems to run the gambit of people who cut out places in the bread, or at least poked holes in it, to faciliate a cat's head and those who simply rammed the cat's face into the bread until it emerged on the other side of the slice.
posted by Atreides at 9:16 AM on February 10, 2012


Gawker made this up, with the obvious intention of simply creating a stupid internet meme. They first posted about it one day, and then declared it "over" that night.

That said, Metafilter's very own meme of "is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time" is about as tiring as a Reddit image macro and can we please declare that one over too?
posted by Threeway Handshake at 9:20 AM on February 10, 2012


I blame Scalzi.
posted by maudlin at 9:21 AM on February 10, 2012 [1 favorite]


I tried this, but when I reached for the breadcrumbs my cat leaped out of the egg dip and disappeared somewhere.
posted by orme at 9:24 AM on February 10, 2012 [2 favorites]


I blame Scalzi.

And who knew the T in BLT was Tabby!
posted by Celsius1414 at 9:30 AM on February 10, 2012


Mine still has a very old, green, dried-up piece of bacon taped to it and it thinks a little fresh foodwear is all to the good.
posted by jfuller at 9:34 AM on February 10, 2012


[spoiler] The cats are in-bread. Get it? In-bread, as in inbred.
posted by exphysicist345 at 10:54 AM on February 10, 2012 [1 favorite]


headnsouth: "Another reason dogs are better than cats. Dogs are way too smart hungry to be breaded."

Check again. Several of those cats look just like dogs.
posted by Splunge at 11:14 AM on February 10, 2012


headnsouth: I respectfully disagree. Light Rye bread is superior for all of these stated applications, however I am told that it is not available in all places. and by that I mean this, not this.
posted by utsutsu at 11:16 AM on February 10, 2012


Would it be evil to take this one notch higher and roll my cat in egg before covering her with the breadcrumbs?


Icky white bread-- ...three exceptions:

grilled cheese sandwiches
post-Thanksgiving leftover sandwiches
homegrown tomato sandwiches


Headnsouth , you forgot all about the french toast!
posted by BlueHorse at 8:45 PM on February 10, 2012


Pix or we're not even going to believe you have a cat, much less bread.
posted by rtha at 6:09 PM on February 11, 2012


This one is our kitten!
posted by Threeway Handshake at 10:22 AM on February 13, 2012


There is no link to your kitten! We demand a valid link!
posted by rtha at 10:54 AM on February 13, 2012


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