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Mark sez, “Growing pears inside a Buddha-shaped plastic form yields much fruit love!” Como fazer peras em formato de buda!
http://www.slashfood.com/2009/09/04/pears-shaped-like-bab...
Shaping fruits and vegetables as they grow on the vine is nothing new. John Czeski, an Ohio farmer, was harvesting pumpkins with human faces in the 1930s.
From the land of innovation, Japan adds to the square watermelon by creating heart and star-shaped cucumbers. Delicious and absolutely adorable.
Couldn't quite handle digging into the creepy watermelon face? How about a prehistoric toothpick-teeth'd T-Rex fruit salad!? What other brilliant creations can we make from watermelon?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/dining/10Fruit.html?par...
The underground fruit economy is growing, based on two principles: one, it's a shame to let fruit go to waste. And two, neighborhood fruit tastes best when it's free.
Designer Naoto Fukasawa creates “juice skins” — that look at feel like the fruit they contain. The pineapple variety might not be as comfortable to drink from.
A Fuji, Japan apple grower expressed his love of Apple on his apples. Apple. Woah, apple's one of those words that looks reeeally weird the more you write it. Anyways, he did it with stickers. How about them apples?
Admittedly, I'm obsessed with totally bonkers diet guru-turned-video blogger Susan Powter, but this video of her praising the joys of an organic pear while essentially giving it some crazy mouth love brings me an unhealthy amount of glee. Looks like she traded “stopping the insanity” for “embracing lots and lots of insanity” (to our sheer delight, of course).
A banana carrying-case from MoMA that looks like it might have another use in mind. As Jezebel points out, “doesn’t it look more like a product to turn your banana into a dildo?”