created 2025-13-02, & modified, =this.modified
rel: Ghost Foods Stability of Concepts
With these related topics on my mind I was thinking of various foods that I have had that are supposed to be shaped as certain things they are not.
When did we start making food into shapes?
An example would be a Swedish Fish.
I want a catalog of all of these masquerading items and the degree they resemble the object they mimic.
For example fish
- goldfish crackers
- swedish fish
- taiyaki
- Bungeo-ppang
Quality Control allows a drift of form inherent in the product.
An example of this would be a popsicle that is shaped like a comic book figure, which only vaguely suggests the figure (say an ironman pop, but the eyeballs are awry and colors bleed by nature of the popsicle, not only from production but various phases of melt.
You also find certain foods that break within the packaging. How much of a fragment of the food do you need to understand what it is?
Also examples where a food might be morphed/processed into the shape of what it once was, such as a chicken nugget shaped like a chicken.
Taiyaki
For the example of Taiyaki, there was an existing food product which was popular. In order to increase sales, a store owner decided to bake the cakes to resemble red sea beam, which are a symbol of luck and fortune.
This actual fish was also only available to those who could afford it.
