Saturday, April 5, 2008

Food Fight

This very interesting, and disturbing, bit of animation shows, as the creator explains, "An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict."

I watched it a few times to figure out some of the battles, and then I realized they have a website to explain the combatants and the conflicts. I was surprised at how I had forgotten about some of these wars, and had never heard of a few! There is something very poignant about seeing food used to show these conflicts. The word juxtaposition comes to mind. Hey, I've always wanted to use that word in a sentence!


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

what is that curly russian white pasta called?

Too bad they don't have yugoslavian dishes there.

Anonymous said...

What a waste of good food lol. well not the mcdonalds, but the kabobs. i'm not a big fan of mcdonalds. i didn't notice which wars they were till the A-bomb and the veitnamese rolls lol

Anonymous said...

Hm, whoever did that had some serious issues.
I didn't really understand what it was all about until the falling burger towers which represented the world trade centers, right? and I guess the atomic bomb too...
hah nevertheless, entertaining.

PrimeBrit said...

What must it be like to have too much time, and food, on your hands??

Anonymous said...

Pretty graphic, but then again, we've become so desensitized to non-food violence in American culture that it's acutally a good way to make an impression on the "messiness" of the different conflicts. Oddly thought-provoking.