This smiling older lady is sitting behind her welcome desk, a giant distorted globe ringed with ketchup and mayonnaise jars blooming out of her head, as if to say, “Yes, folks, the world of condiments did indeed spring fully formed from your grandmother’s brain.” But though it might explain the origin of condiments, this image generates a lot more questions than it answers. For example, why on earth would Food Stuffs International, Inc. have a visitor center? Who visits it? Why is there no real food anywhere in this picture? Why did this company choose to make the worst composed photograph on earth into a post card?
I welcome any answers to these questions as well as any alternate interpretations of this truly disturbing image.
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This reminds me of the time my friend Marshall showed me this seed packet he was so excited about. It displayed a giddy-looking woman in her fifties, standing against the most disgusting wallpaper you've ever seen, all vines and grapes and it looks like a bad trip, and she's cradling an obscenely large cucumber. I was like, Marshall, what are you planning on doing with this?! And he says that he is going to grow THE BIGGEST vegetables. Of course I was left thinking, am I too cynical?
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