There’s a post title I bet you never expected to see! But it’s accurate. Pareidolia is the psychological term for seeing faces in random patterns; a trait we have evolved over millions of years. But what about reverse pareidolia? Where you don’t see faces that really are there? You might think it’s prosopagnosia, but in this case it’s a joke. But a cool one.
Over at the Bread and Honey blog, they have a really cool article about a frozen broccoli box that has little smiling faces Photoshopped into the broccoli:
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Coincidence? Subliminal advertising? Neither! In a followup post, Bread and Honey found out it’s a tribute the company makes to people who work there. I think that’s terrific, funny, and pretty cool. Frozen, even. But head on over there to see more of the facial trickery they did. It’s all pretty nifty. And it’s good for you.
Tip o’ the stalk to BA Blog regular Cory Albrecht.
October 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Broccoli is pretty cool and that packaging is great. Too bad they’re not continuing with it.
I blogged about Romanesco briefly here which is more cauliflower than broccoli but the only thing that comes close to facial patterns in broccoli are fractal ones.
IMO.
October 30th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Good for you? It’s one of the deadliest plants on earth! It tries to warn you itself with its terrible taste.
October 30th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
So we’re dealing with Broccoli Easter Eggs?
J/P=?
October 30th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Seems like the sort of thing a bored graphic designer might do for a laugh!
October 30th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
“Buy more broccoli…buy more broccoli…”
THE FACE IS TELLING ME TO! FOR GOD’S SAKE, MAKE IT STOP!!!!
October 30th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Wow it’s like U R MR GAY… hey that one it’s also about stars so it even has something to do with astronomy, right?
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=MKKiaghfpEw
October 30th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I love broccoli, but I would feel terrible if I worked for the broccoli company and ate my fellow employees…
October 30th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
BTW, that image looks like Wil Wheaton!
October 30th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
I agree that it’s a clever and fun little tribute.
So, of course, they’re going to stop doing it:
http://bread-and-honey.blogspot.com/2008/10/wtf-broccoli-part-deuce.html
No indication given to why they decided to change.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
This is going to mess up some vegetarians. Is it vegetable or animal? Soylent Green is People!
October 30th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
OT,
ALERT! StopSylivaBrown has gone down!
October 30th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
The Chemist,
Hijacked is probably a better term.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:55 am
I second Michael L. First glance I thought it was Wil Wheaton.
That’s even spookier considering the host of this blog!
November 1st, 2008 at 10:27 pm
[...] Oh, yeah. I can’t leave this out: Reverse broccoleidolia. [...]
November 1st, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Sif it tastes bad! I have craved that stuff since I can remember. I rekon I eat it every second night with my vegies. I’ll eat it raw as a snack with some sweet chilli sauce. Broccoli pwns me.