This is not macro mayonnaise

February 17, 2015 6:11 PM

(SLYT) Miniature foods and cooking. Does what it says on the tin. A very small tin.
posted by scrump (16 comments total)

Now I'm hungry.
posted by monospace at 6:18 PM on February 17, 2015

What is this, food for ants???
posted by turbid dahlia at 6:18 PM on February 17, 2015 [3 favorites]

It's almost some kind of ASMR thing, for the Michael Ellis set...
posted by mimi at 6:23 PM on February 17, 2015 [1 favorite]

> What is this, food for ants???
No, dear. That's all of the toast that's being thrown around my office by an out of control "toast robot" designed by the fourteenth smartest clone of Hitler that fugitive Nazis ever decanted out of a favela bathtub.
posted by Malory Archer at 6:37 PM on February 17, 2015 [2 favorites]

There are so many YouTube videos where people make tiny replica food, or children's toy food, and now this microscopically teeny real food. It's all so mesmerizing because it's so exacting! Some of the Japanese candy replica food channels got me to buy a couple of kits and give it a try myself, and it's not nearly as fun to do as it is to watch, for some reason unknown to me.
posted by xingcat at 6:40 PM on February 17, 2015

Is this related to the people who make miniature dishes to serve to hamsters, like hamster eating a tiny pizza or hamster eating tiny burritos.
posted by Wolfster at 6:41 PM on February 17, 2015 [3 favorites]

I just about lost it when the teensy weensy nori was brought out to finish the eeny weeny tamagoyaki. Such kawaii, many hunger!
posted by Jake DeNiro at 6:43 PM on February 17, 2015

I've paid upwards of $300 for the privilege of eating food like this. It comes on really big plates and if you opt for the sake pairing, you get a thimble full of rancid sweet water with each course.




Just kidding, I always make my wife pay when she insists on going to these places.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 6:45 PM on February 17, 2015

Coming from the country that brought us Bonsai, I'm not surprised that this is a thing.
posted by lauratheexplorer at 6:51 PM on February 17, 2015

If I worked in a grocery store, I would totally label the brussels sprouts "fun-size cabbages".
posted by rifflesby at 6:55 PM on February 17, 2015 [4 favorites]

OH my GOODNESS
posted by DoctorFedora at 7:08 PM on February 17, 2015

So I'm guessing there won't be any need for this.
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:34 PM on February 17, 2015 [1 favorite]

i guess my eyes are smaller than my stomach on this one
posted by rebent at 8:38 PM on February 17, 2015

The thing is, you eat it all, and you're hungry again 15 seconds later.
posted by mazola at 11:07 PM on February 17, 2015

He or she did not hand build the sushi serving tray from artisanal bamboo.

I am disappoint.
posted by jefflowrey at 4:17 AM on February 18, 2015

In middle school, I had a teacher who got me and a bunch of other students into micro-scale armor wargaming with tiny little WWII tanks the size of your thumb. If you had really little thumbs. And we had a sand table because we were recreating desert battles. The problem was that with tanks this tiny, the individual grains of sand were actually pretty big and awkward to move your tiny little tank across.

So our teacher had actually found a place that sold a very, very fine grained powder called "scale sand."

Here, the application would be aesthetic. You would spread it out, rake it with a tiny, tiny rake, then sit and contemplate it while enjoying your tiny, tiny food.
posted by Naberius at 11:14 AM on February 18, 2015 [1 favorite]