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Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. And we've known about it for quite a while.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example, described seeing characters in natural markings on stone walls, which he believed could help inspire his artworks. And in the 1950s, the Bank of Canada had to withdraw a series of banknotes because people saw a grinning devil leaping from the curls of the Queen's hair.
However, pareidolia can be really fun, too. Just look at this list of photos from Bored Panda. At first glance, it looks like a seemingly casual batch of veggies and fruits. But a closer examination will reveal they have "become" something else. Enjoy!
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#1
After Stewing In His Emotions, Emo Veg Comes To The Conclusion That The Root Of The World's Problems Is That People Don't Seem To Carrot All
Grant Barke 4 years ago
This is actually something you can order in a hotel just out of Chernobyl.
rustic raven 4 years ago
HA HA now that 's I need for HALLOWEEN are a few of them Little critters out of the pumpkin ;=]] YES!
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#2
This Tomato Looks Like A Duck
Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
A duck that even vegans would be willing to eat :D
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Sometimes, an abnormal look can make fruits and veggies land in the bin. Of course, food waste exists across the food supply chain due to pests and mold, poor climate control, and household waste, but imperfect produce is often turned away by grocery stores for not meeting strict cosmetic standards as well, making up around 40% of total food waste.
Philip Behn, the CEO of Imperfect Foods, a company that is on a mission to eliminate food waste, told Forbes that there are many reasons this could happen: "It could be a small quirk in appearance based on shape, size, or color that has no impact on flavor or nutrition. Beyond produce, perfectly good grocery items often go to waste for similarly illogical reasons. Grocers won't purchase or stock goods that are close to expiration or going through packaging changes, regardless of quality."
#3
Alien Pickle
#4
The Evolved Radish
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
"I must free my brothers and sisters from the slavery of agribusiness"
Reducing food loss has been identified as one of the most effective ways to improve food security – an increasingly important challenge as the global population continues to grow. Plus, food waste also hugely contributes to global warming and our carbon footprint.
But ugly food is fighting back. More and more companies are selling ugly produce and using it in their products, reversing the fate of discarded monstrosities to delicious, perfectly edible, and nutritious food.
The ugly produce movement also has the potential to pass lower prices onto customers.
So if you stumble upon a radish that resembles a foot — buy it. You'll be doing your part.
#5
Going To Have To Eat This Chicken As It Hasn't Laid A Single Bloody Egg Yet
rustic raven 4 years ago
But I'm not your regular chic/strawberry but I give red eggs too just look out for the seeds ;=]]
#6
This Incredible Carrot Hand Was Found While Digging Juice Carrots At Our Farm Today
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#7
Baked Potato
Hilary Mol 4 years ago
Isn't this what Harry Potter saw underneath the bench at the Subway Stop of the Dead (or whatever it was called)?
#8
She Thought He Did Not Carrot All, But He Bought Her 21-Carrot Ring
Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago
When your armpit hair grows out of control but your partner loves you nonetheless.
rustic raven 4 years ago
Wow how you can't leave me if you tried this time you are all mine ;=]]
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
SMOOCHing Veggies!! For some reason it reminded me of a returning soldier.
#9
Foot Shaped Radish Goes On Display
#10
Naughty Pears
Mihai Mara 4 years ago
Farmer: 'So I was walking in the orchard and kept hearing moans but there was nobody there except me. No idea what was going on".
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago (edited)
I'm convinced that the first visual joke pointed out by one early hominid to another involved sexually suggestive fruit
#11
Kawaii Gourd
Final score:
240points
80 Van 4 years ago
The one on the left looks shocked and the one on the right looks delighted.
#12
This Banana Looks Exactly Like My Mom's Dog
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
Don't you mean that your dog sister looks just like this banana?
#13
The Goddess Lives
AhhhhHHHHHHHHHH 4 years ago
When will the sexualization of fruits come to an end? /j
Load More Replies... Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
A cat call whistle immediately hit my thoughts... And I'm a woman.
#14
That's A Sweet Beartato
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
Sadly, most potatoes "bearing" anomalies of this sort are discarded as imperfect.
DDmaybeandor 4 years ago
I wonder how Reginald is doing? I miss them too.
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#15
This Onion Looks Like An Angry Bird
rustic raven 4 years ago
Mom there is always one of them that won't smile when you take the family photo ;=]]
#16
F**k You Too, Broccoli
#17
This Tomato That Grew In Our Garden Is Shaped Like A Butterfly
#18
This Yam Looks Like A Human Hand
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 4 years ago
Are you sure it's not?! I'd be pretty freaked out to dig that up!!
#19
This Pumpkin In Our Garden Split And It Looks Like It Has Teeth
Lee The Thespian 4 years ago
This is exactly what they mean when they say "whatever you do, don't feed the plants" at the end of Little Shop
HammerzToe 4 years ago
Looks like it should be on a bill board for a movie. The Plant That Ate Chicago!
#20
An Exceptionally Suave And Sophisticated Daikon Radish
#21
This Potato Looks Like A Seal
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
At first glance, before I recognized it as a pen, I thought the seal was mounted on a mini skateboard.
Onion rings like to make your breath smelly 4 years ago
with the pen under it, it looks like that the seal is surfing :)
Calypso poet 4 years ago
Those Pilots are great pens btw! I only write with the blue ones. My husband has to use red ink at work so we have them laying everywhere!
#22
This Strawberry Looks Like A Butterfly
#23
Let Us Out
#24
Hmmm
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
It's amazing what you can find at the back of the fridge
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The owl looks as if he is pleased that his plan, whatever it is has worked.
#25
Best Eggplant Ever
#26
The Skin On My Apple Kinda Looks Like The Silhouette Of A Camel
Giles McArdell 4 years ago
Hmmm, are you sure it didn't have a fruit label on it in the shape of a camel?
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Indeed that's the way you do it, cut some alu foil tape in the shape then stick on before ripe (but after full-grown), leave a few weeks.
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Tiggy Darling 4 years ago
I said this last time this picture got posted, but cut out a shape out of aluminium foil and stick it to an unripe red apple with Vaseline. Seconds of fun.
#27
I Thought This Gourd Looked Like A Snail
Airis Malfoy 4 years ago
when you ignore the green part, and look at the yellow one, it looks like Sid the Sloth from Ice age.... or is it just me? https://images.app.goo.gl/EFXnb2GoJF35dbiA7
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
And I would concur with your thought that this looks like a snail.
#28
This Purple Carrot Looks Like A Bartender Ready To Take Your Drink Order And Listen To Your Troubles
RufffiesWithRidges 4 years ago
Looks like a lady sitting on the edge of a piano, lounge singing.
#29
I Thought There Was A Severed Finger In My Fruit Bowl. It Was Just Some Ginger
Mihai Mara 4 years ago
You can't fool us! I know how a severed finger looks like when I see one! .... *cough* cause I've seen them in movies. In movies, yes.
#30
My Carrot Looks Like A Person
#31
This Eggplant Has A Face
#32
So Aparrotly This Is Milkweed
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Looks like over developed Humming birds - may be they know the words.
#33
This Small Red Potato Looks Like An Anatomical Heart
Onion rings like to make your breath smelly 4 years ago
all thats left... is his heart
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#34
I Don't Think I Can Eat This Potato
#35
My Friend Found A Lemon Shaped Like An Elephant
#36
Pear That Looks Like A Kiwi (Bird)
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Kiwi: *Screeeeeeeeam* *chirp click chirp* *screeeeeeam*
Load More Replies... Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago
An angry kiwi that won't even look at you until you apologized, Judy.
#37
A Rather Sinister Onion
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
"I'll make you weep for this, human scum! HAHAHA"
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AJ the panda. 4 years ago (edited)
This reminds me of the a villain from Danger mouse. The face looks like Baron Silas Greenback. 😈🐸
#38
My Wife's Bell Pepper Looks Like A Big Nosed Grumpy Old Man Smoking A Cig
#39
We Grew An Eggplant That Looks Like The Poop Emoji
#40
My Potato Looks Like It's Trying To Escape Itself
#41
This Jalapeño Looks Like A T-Rex
#42
The Happiest Potato I've Ever Seen
Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago
It's definitely a sociopath, hovering over his shredded victims, laughing like a maniac.
#43
My Sister Grew A Carrot That Looks Like Arnold
#44
It Looks Exactly Like Larry Bird
Marsha Hultberg 1 year ago
Did Larry have a stroke, or have Bell's palsy? (The droopy left side) 😂
#45
Booberries
Catlady6000 4 years ago
Booberries is an actual cereal. It usually comes out in the Fall here in the US. Along with Frankenberries and Count Chocula
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#46
This Carrot Wants To Be An Astronaut
#47
This Cucumber Looks Like A Swan
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
You just gotta have a swan or your otta luck a chicken wouldn't do it would only cluck!
#48
My Friend’s Smoked Cauliflower Looks Like An Explosion
#49
This Pepper Is About To Sneeze
#50
Tomato My Wife Grew vs. One Our Friends Bought
DC 4 years ago
Leave them alone, then eat him, and wait a bit. You'll have some small tomatos soon.
Ms.GB 4 years ago
They look like they are about to perform a different kind of intercourse...
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#51
My Celeriac Scared The Devil Out Of Me
Tammie Johnson 4 years ago
I feel as though this celeriac root may have been planted on top of an ancient Indian burial ground.
Tonya Wallace 4 years ago
Teach me something new. What is it, and how does it taste? (Yeah, I can Google it, but just being friendly.)
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Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Off topic, but I have a crystal puzzle shaped like a skull. I named him Yorick.
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My Apple Looks Like Its Still Loading
StrawberryParfait 4 years ago (edited)
You want yourself a real good red apple, every time? Look for streaks in the skin, like on the green part up there. Source: my dad, an all around old-school, hard-knocks dude who grew up in the Canadian Maritimes and picked apples on his grandfather's farm. I never bought another mealy apple again after he told me this.
#53
This Strawberry I Found Is Shaped Like A Perfect Flower
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
My sisters and I were cutting tomatoes when we found one that had a perfect flower shape inside.
#54
Brilliant Spider-Man Homecoming Cosplay
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
How did they get such a high resolution photo of my willpower holding my brain together 🤔
#55
This Strawberry I Found Looks Like Mario
#56
This Vegetable Looks Like An Ood From Dr. Who
#57
Grumpy Cat Apple
#58
I'm Seeing Tomato Elephants
#59
Scary Figure Inside This Cabbage
Luna Lovegood 4 years ago
Hello!! I did find a face in a dirigible plum one time...
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Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
I am more inclined to see a ballet dancer emoting the sad emotions of a love story gone wrong.
#60
The Tomato We Grew Looks Like Sauron’s Eye
#61
My Dad Found This Little Guy While Peeling Some Vegetables
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
A timely reminder that vegetables can be funny without being pornographic
#62
Oh The Horrors
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
The veggies are taking over, thereby bringing 2021 to a suitably apocalyptic conclusion
#63
Buff Carrot
#64
This Peanut Looks Like A Duck
#66
My Ginger Has A Gnome Growing From It
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
I think it's time to plant and let the little guy hibernate at the hermit he is.
#67
The Sad Mr. Ugly Veg
Mike Rodrick 4 years ago
I can't believe yours were the exact words in my mind before I saw them.
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#68
This Pumpkin Stem Looks Like A Dragon
#69
This Potato Looks Like An Evil Sloth
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
I cant understand why the potato looks like a weird scotch egg with a hole in it. Another tally mark on the blurry chart of why I need glasses
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago (edited)
I strongly object to this title - there is no such thing as an evil sloth
#70
This Pumpkin That Looks Like A Swan
#71
Work In Food Production, Found A Baby Carrot We All Thought Was A Human Finger At First
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
As I said in a previous post: "Call the coroner and the forensics team".
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This Blueberry Looks Like An Owl's Head
#73
This Carrot Looks Like It's Walking
Mihai Mara 4 years ago
"I'm walking away / From the troubles in my life I'm walking away / Oh, to find a better day"
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Thats random i saw it as walking towards the camera 😅
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Isobel Davies 4 years ago
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man, no time to talk Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
Make sure to watch the catwalk folks.... Our next model is wearing the latest in natural wear. It's colorful, edible and oh so tasty.
#74
My Wife's Potato Looks Like Admiral Ackbar
#75
I Sliced Open This Green Pepper To Reveal A Smiley Face On Both Halves
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Finally a smiling bell pepper, as opposed to the screaming zombie ones X(
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
The extra "mane" around the right one made me see the pair as a lion and lioness....
#76
My Mom Cut Into Her Carrot And Found A Smiley Face
#77
This Beet That Is Perfectly Shaped Like A Human Heart
#78
This Stem Looks Like A Person Who Stepped In A Tomato
#79
Both The Banana Slice And My Dog Just Thinking Right Now - What The Hell Is So Funny Steve?
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
Maybe dogs and bananas have some sort of connection? My doggo will bug the heck outta me until I peel and feed her any banana she might see or sniff out.
Marilyn Holt 4 years ago
My shih-tzu goes crazy for bananas. Preferable sliced up in a pretty dish. lol
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Zucchini Swansh
Chaotic-Pansexual (she/they) 4 years ago
This is awesome looking! Though I wouldn’t suggest letting them get that big. My mom grows zucchini that will get positively enormous if she lets them but she usually cuts them off at 11 or 12 inches because much bigger than that and they get really bitter and kinda bland if they get too big
#81
The Devil Is In The "Ugly" Fruit And Veg
#82
Usually They're Pretty Freaked Out
Ty Stratton-Quirk 4 years ago
Not sure what else you're growing in the garden, but the bell peppers sure seem to love it.
#83
I Found A Man’s Face In My Watermelon
#84
Vegetable Looks Like A Giant Foot
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
Some where someone has bought a pair of these strapped the to their feet and is wandering the woods too mess with people.
#85
The Way This Tomato From My Garden Looks Like A Giant Ant Is Eating It
#86
This Gigantic Potato That Looks Like Sid From Ice Age
#87
This Tomato From My Garden Is Shaped Like A Bunny Head
#88
My Ginger Root Looks Like A Lobster
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
We were at a beach... and everybody had matching towels! Somebody went under a dock, and there they found a root... but it wasn't a root... it was a root lobster! :D
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#90
My Dad's Onion Looks Like Strong Bad
#91
Creepy Piece Of Fruit
#92
Inside Of This Tomato Looks Like A Perfect Strawberry
#93
Probably A Good Listener
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
When life gives you lemons (like these), scare the bejesus out of your SO with them.
#94
My Boyfriend’s Homegrown Potato Looks Like The Reddit Icon
#95
This Piece Of Ginger Looks Like A Rabbit
#96
I Present To You A Buddha's Hand Fruit, Looks Like An Octopus
#97
My Homegrown Cucumber Slices Into Happy Faces
#99
Oh No, I Grew An Evil Bell Pepper
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
If you stare into the bell pepper the bell pepper stares back at you
#100
Sliced Green Pepper In Half And It Decided To Smile Back At Me
#101
This Bell Pepper I Cut At Work Looks Like Happy And Sad Faces
#102
This Sweet Potato We Got That Looks Like A Bird
#103
There’s Small Pepper Growing Out Of Our Larger One Which Ironically Looks Like A Baby
#104
Found This Happy Kiwi In My Lunch Yesterday
#105
This Tomato Looks Like A Rubber Duckie
#106
This Deformed Apple That Looks Like A Big Nosed Smoker
#107
Piece Of Ginger Looks Like A Disembodied Finger
Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
Ok..all these disembodied finger-looking things are freaking me out a bit...
#108
This Potato Looks Like A One-Eyed Canadian From South Park
#109
This Berry In My Drink Looks Like A Little Octopus
#110
The Veggie Wars Have Begun
#111
It's What's On The Inside That Counts
#112
This Japanese Eggplant Looks Like A Bird
#113
This Potato That Looks Like A Lobster
#114
This Sweet Potato That Looks Like A Human Heart
#115
Half-Human Half-Carrot
ThatHuskyStorm 4 years ago
🎵they tried to put me on the cover of vogue but my legs where too long🎵
#116
This Onion Came With A Happy Face
#117
This Sweet Potato Looks Like A Happy Little Whale
#118
My Ginger Root Looks Like A Sitting Elephant
#119
A Cherry Tomato That Looks Like It Has Horns Like Satan
#120
This Giant Beet From My Garden Looks Like A Heart
#121
This Strawberry Looks Like A Little Guy
#122
I Found Two Blueberries Fused Together. It Looks Like A Pair Of Eyes
#123
This Vegetable Sort Of Looks Like Snoopy
#124
I Grew A Rare Bell Pepe
#125
The Rare Dragon Pepper - Guaranteed To Breath Fire And Spice Into Your Meal
Kim Steffen 4 years ago
Hotter peppers seem to be on the small side. Thai chili peppers are deceptively hot.
#128
Potato Man
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Monday 4 years ago
Seeing things like this makes me wonder how farmers reacted to misshapen crops like this hundreds of years ago. Did they understand they were harmless mutations or was this the basis for "witchcraft" allegations?
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago (edited)
Of course, if any of these happened to even remotely look like Jesus, the vertical freakout factor (VFF) would be cranked up to 11 by the god-heads
iblowsheep 4 years ago
Damn i was looking for a misshapen pear so i could make a pareidolia joke
Monday 4 years ago
No it's a sign of how things look when they're grown "organically". The pretty, perfect fruits and veggies we see in the stores have been messed with far more than these.
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Seeing things like this makes me wonder how farmers reacted to misshapen crops like this hundreds of years ago. Did they understand they were harmless mutations or was this the basis for "witchcraft" allegations?
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago (edited)
Of course, if any of these happened to even remotely look like Jesus, the vertical freakout factor (VFF) would be cranked up to 11 by the god-heads
iblowsheep 4 years ago
Damn i was looking for a misshapen pear so i could make a pareidolia joke
Monday 4 years ago
No it's a sign of how things look when they're grown "organically". The pretty, perfect fruits and veggies we see in the stores have been messed with far more than these.
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