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August 29, 2008 |
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Prime Cuts
FOUND by susannah shepherd
in Delancey Street, Manhattan, New York
Found on the sidewalk. I really have no idea why anyone would take this photo (looks like the meat's from PathMark).
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
getting ready for christmas?
not the kind of picture a vegan really wants to see without a warning.
A tv dinner! or dinner for the tv. Why would you put bloody dripping meat in front of your tv set if not for it to eat?
"I may be vile and pernicious, but you cant look away, I make you think I'm delicious with the stuff that I say. I am the best you can get, have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin out from your tv set"
And here's a picture of all that meat we bought with that winnin scratch ticket. Remember when all we had was Mac-n-Cheez?
A new kind of ransom demand. Instead of a frightened kidnap victim holding up a newspaper, you get pictures of cuts of meat. On the back is scrawled: "Little Teddy is next unless you pay up."
Kind of like "Delicatessen" only not.
And what's the golden cloud across the top? Looks like the TV's speech bubble for Effie's caption.
The "cloud" across the top is actually an apparition of the ghost of the cow that these steaks came from. It's kind of sporting the "over the moon" pose. In the tv reflection you may notice a little dog laughing and a cat playing violin.
This looks like the kind of photo my mil would take - seriously! "I can't believe you bought all that meat for $8. Let me get a picture before you put it in the freezer. Ok - now one with you in it."
Several Possibilities
1. Some has finished their butcher's apprenticeship and now is a journeyman butcher. The final test was perfectly packaged prime cuts of beef which he got to take home to eat.
2. Someone won 2nd prize in a supermarket contest. 1st prize was a gas grill and lots of meat.
3. Someone got a new camera and is annoyingly taking pictures of EVERYTHING.
4. This is evidence in a major crime spree. The guy's a serial meat department robber. The cops can't decide if he's a vegan activist or if he was just really hungry.
And Farmer gets the coffee out the nose award.
Looks like this was taken in an RV. While Paw was out firin up the grill, Maw decided to get a quick shot for her vacation photo journal before the younguns got back from the crick.
quirky and AWESOME!! Eat your heart out . . .
This is probably a 4-H photo from a county fair. The carcass steers are being judged “on the rail,” to see which kid raised the steer with the best cut of beef. Take it from me, the former recipient of the Grand Champion Carcass Steer title at a county fair.
If this find was first today...it would have read Meat Jesus....
This reminds me of a book I once read, called "The Gallery of Regrettable Food", by James Lilek. He has a website, with some of the gallery on it. Made me laugh so hard I had coffee coming out my nose (Before the days of Farmer).
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/meat/i
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/meat/index.
Maybe this guy was acting funny so the security guys took him into the back room and found all this meat in his pants. They took this Polaroid of it for evidence. That's the surveillance monitor there.
And I quote: "Tell them to make me a grill!"
...or maybe it's someone's first party/cookout and they are trying to document EVERY moment of it.
@ EFFIE- You made me blow *CHEERIOS* and milk out of my nostrils this morning, girl!!! Too funny!
I think this picture taker was a butcher and this is what his *loot* was after that evening's shift.
"Oh, look honey...look what BIG DADDY brought home tonight...did I score or what??"
"I bring home the beef...fire it up on the GRILL!!!"
@ EFFIE- I believe that was FRANK ZAPPA, yes?
Oooo..artsy!
@ Dimples - My family would do the same thing. That's what I immediately thought when I saw the pic, was some sort of pride over the purchase. Either the price was good or they're excited over such a big purchase for an event like somebody's birthday party or something.
Although in my family we'd probably make it a little more appetizing and take the pic while they're all being grilled or at the table with everybody smiling over their full plates before we dig in.
And all the vegetarians said, "I'll be in the bathroom throwing up." Gotta go...I'm gagging.
This is a photo taken with pride. Reminds me of the many pictures my grandfather took of his wood after chopping and stacking it. Funny what people choose to take pride in... I've never taken pictures but I've defaintly caught myself admiring neat stacks of towels I've folded.
@JodaBabes: Or a clean floor. I did take pictures of my new, topflight energy-efficient fridge that I paid for out of my own earnings.
I should take pictures every time I clean house. It never lasts.
A dark alleyway on the bad side of town. A man in a long overcoat and dark glasses casually mutters "Hey buddy, wanna buy some prime ribe?" and flashes this photograph.
If you squint while looking at the Polaroid it almost sort of looks like the pieces of sliced cow muscle spell out something . . . PAC MAN ? PAD WEL ? Something, anyway.
Les Brers, I know it's a typo but I sure like the sound of "prime ribe".
I would take a picture of the meat only if I knew I wouldn't be eating that well in the future. I'd put the picture on the shelf where I keep the ramen. And dream of prime ribe.
Absolutely right Holly. That song is my mantra. And Librarian, it really does look like it says something, Wal mob, I reckon.
This is someone's cheat sheet for Dave Letterman's "Know Your Cuts of Meat." The real question is: "Will it Float?"
It's a hungry man tv dinner EW
That is Jesus face- front slice!Look closely, believe, SEE it! Obviously this is an offering to the god of tech, take and eat in rememberance that cow died for your sins.
Here's a simple older Find that's a perfect companion for these Prime Cuts:
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/655
Nice marbleing on that big one. I'm very hungry now; gonna crank up the grill.
WEIRD! The meat in front of the t.v., the yellow cloud hanging over it...
A sacrifice, to the god Of Television (Please accept these gifts, not yet a burnt offering, but how would you like them cooked?)
Bring out your dead, Bring out your dead
(sorry, stuck Monty Python this evening)
Photos like this are common in supermarkets. They are usually attached to photos of the attempted thief and kept on file in the event of a repeat offense.
This picture was taken in a security room and the TV is a security monitor showing 4 cameras.
This is the most popular type of theft in supermarkets these days aside from razorblades and facial creams.
Librarian, at first glance I also thought the meat slabs did spell something, and that was why they took the picture.
I am getting a connection between this find and the other one for today. But I can't explain it. And I don't want to, really.
Holy Cow! (literally)