Annals of phallicity: the penis cake pan

Passed on by Kathryn Burlingham on Facebook: one woman’s ingenuity in reusing her penis cake pan, with festive results:

Rainbow cone

Via the Princeton LGBT Center on Facebook, this cone for Pride Month:

Most recent rainbow food posting: “More rainbow fruit” of 11/27/12, with links to four earlier postings with rainbow food.

Foodmanteaus

In his Boston Globe blog on the 8th, Ben Zimmer tackles the cronut (which I too have posted about) — croissant + doughnut — and food portmanteaus more generally:

Why we love ‘cronuts’: The devilish pull of the food portmanteau

Food portmanteaus … are popping up faster than you can say “tofurkey.” On his website, Barry Popik, an expert on the origins of food terms, has culled a bumper crop of new blends. For instance, Jess Kapadia of the Food Republic blog recently shared her recipe for the sandwich fixing “tomatonaise,” which consists of “super-ripe tomatoes food-processed, or immersion-blended, with mayo.” Meanwhile, Tim Ferriss, author of “The 4-Hour Chef,” introduced Huffington Post readers to the “eggocado,” a baked egg inside an avocado.

Further examples, old and new, follow.

Breakfasts

In the June/July Details magazine, a feature (pp. 106-11) on breakfasts: some inventive breakfast dishes from around the U.S., a little glossary of international foods to know, several pages on reinventions of familiar breakfast fare, and a few unusual brunch dishes. Here some comments on the first two features.

Extreme Twinkies

Today’s Zippy combines two recurrent themes in the strip, Hostess snack foods and taco sauce:

I’ve commented before on Bill Grffith’s “preoccupation with Hostess snack foods”, and devoted a posting to taco sauce in Zippy, starting with “a strip of 6/11/12 that led to a posting on La Victoria products”. Here the two are united, and the figure of Melvin Hostess is added to the mix.

 

Portmanteau news

Three portmanteau finds in recent days: cronut, vog, and Prancercise.

Departments: Amazing food

Two finds: the pizza smoothie, discovered in today’s Zits –

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– and cockolate (yes, more chocolate penises), especially in the form of Cockolate Pops.

News on the edible penis front

Following on yesterday’s edible-penguin posting (focused mostly on cookies and chocolates), I return today to phallic foodstuffs, a topic last discussed here in connection with penis-shaped breadstuffs: baguettes, brioches, and tartes. Now to cookies and chocolates, with the nice portmanteau find cockie ‘cock cookie’, plus some other deliberately phallic food.

News on the edible penguin front

From Chris Ambidge, another package of penguin cookies, this time in chocolate chip:

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The previous installment had penguin brownies.

Manwich and Beefaroni as portmanteaus

My “Grocery store semiotics” posting looked briefly at two canned-food preparations: Manwich and Beefaroni. Manwich: “a canned sloppy joe sauce … The can contains seasoned tomato sauce that is added to cooked ground beef in a skillet” to yield a filling for hamburger buns. And Beefaroni: “pasta with beef in tomato sauce”, essentially a ground beef casserole in a can. Both names are portmanteaus, and both are somewhat opaque in their meaning.