Happy Thanksgiving! Somebody has a very twisted mind and it’s pretty cool. I’m not sure how many people would want to touch this thing let alone eat it. But it makes for a very interesting photo and it would probably be pretty tasty too. Right now I’m kind of wondering what the tail is made out of, no doubt it’s edible like it says but from the angle it almost looks like the person responsible either took a bunch of small Yukon gold potatoes and strung them together or found a way to make a long, prehensile tail out of bread. The effect is just creepy since it looks like the thing is about to leap off of the tray and attempt to impregnate someone when they sit down to eat. As far as holiday meals go this one looks more dangerous when it’s cooked than it does raw.
Actually, scratch that. I’m betting this thing would look even more ready to leap off the tray when it was still raw and had that pale color to it. Then it would have been something to really give people the creeps. It makes you wonder what people are seeing when they look at things really. Someone looked at a turkey and somehow got the idea in their head that it looked enough like a facehugger to go ahead and make the attempt to create such a thing out of easy to find items. In some ways it almost looks like a giant mutated crab that’s just ready to spring forward and get revenge for the millions of its kind that have been consumed throughout the history of mankind. The crispy skin on top kind of gives the look of a shell while the legs are either poised or getting ready to flex in order to pounce.
Some people sure have a weird sense of humor, but then again that’s part of what makes life interesting and in some cases even more delectable for the effort. Just looking at this thing gives me chills. It even makes me wonder how the cast of Alien and Aliens felt when they were working with things that looked like this but were designed to actually move. Obviously by the time Aliens vs. Predator came around the CGI was used to give the facehuggers their customary motion, but up until then the fact that you didn’t see much more than a blur before they attached themselves was absolutely horrific.
It’s not much of a mystery how they could move so fast and be so deadly. Moving around on multiple legs gives a creature a distinct advantage in their forward motion, and the musculature in facehuggers is great enough that they can leap a great distance and, once they’re applied, basically force themselves upon the intended victim as their tails wrap around their victim’s neck like a fleshy slap bracelet as they force their payload into the person’s mouth. Man, that sounded borderline pornographic, but in a much creeper scifi way.
Kudos to whoever did this, you have managed to snap me back to wakefulness.
Pictures via 36 Monsters
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