Here's an interesting item for the next time all you hepcats and kittens host a dinner party: retro plastic dinnerware emblazoned with carcass maps. For the noncarnivores out there, a carcass map is one of those endlessy fascinating diagrams that hangs in butcher shops.My meat and fire-loving alter ego Joey Deckle tipped me off to Food for Thought plates, which are the brainchild of designer Charles S. Anderson. You probably can't read the text, but the piggy plate shown here is labeled swine.
If you have an inkling that the word "swine" implies some sort of tongue-in-cheek value judgment about meat eaters you're not far off the mark. The other three plates in the set are steer, lamb and mutt, which in this case is not short for mutton, but simply denotes dog. Sure they're a far cry from Williams-Sonoma's elegant Je demande du boeuf carcass map platter, but I still wouldn't mine having a set in my cupboard.
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3-19-2007 @ 5:50PM
dtrapp said...
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It's not a terrible idea, but it certainly doesn't look very appealing.
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3-19-2007 @ 7:51PM
yumsugar said...
These are so cute, I definitely think I need them!
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3-19-2007 @ 11:43PM
AS said...
Feh, forget about eating on them. I want to take them to the grocery store so I can remember which rounds and loins are farthest from hoof and horn. Really, just whose idea was it to put the butt at the opposite end of the rump?
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3-20-2007 @ 4:53AM
Angela Pitt said...
I just want to eat, who's got time to think when
your stomach is nagging you? I certainly won't take
the time to read what's on my plate before I cover
it with food. Give me a solid colored plate any day,
plain and simple.
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3-20-2007 @ 5:29PM
lavalady said...
I think of these plates more like the collectable plates from each state - I've got an Alaska and Hawaii hanging on my wall. Bought a pig and steer version of these plates for my boyfriend this Christmas because I thought he'd dig them. So far they have not been eaten off of! I have a feeling they will hang in our kitchen one day.
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