Beef Rabbit

I recently dis­cov­ered a poster on a friend’s fridge that out­lined Cuts of Beef and their com­mon uses. It was an inter­est­ing chart that taught me which parts of the cow are which in rela­tion to a mixed grill.

beef

It’s a nice poster with some nice typog­ra­phy and, unlike the real-life ver­sions in an abba­toir, not dis­pleas­ing to the eye. How­ever it was when I viewed the poster on the side that I started to think not about beef but about rabbits.

rabbit

I hope you too can can see the rab­bit inher­ent in the illus­trated beef. And so the poster of beef cuts failed to do its job because all I could think of after­ward was rabbits.

beef-rabbits

And just as I’d thought, if you place the Beef Rab­bit along­side other rab­bits it becomes indis­tin­guish­able from those other rab­bits. This has raised a lot of ques­tions for me. Was the Cuts of Beef poster try­ing to be sub­lim­i­nal about some­thing? Are rab­bits cows? Are cows rab­bits? Rab­bits are, when you think about, steak-sized. Mmm. Food for thought.



4 Comments

Wait till Dav Pilkey finds out about this. I think there is a Dumb Bun­nies story in there some­where… It’s the only pos­si­ble explanation.

Yeah, Dumb Bun­nies go the Abat­toir is the obvi­ous con­cept, though it may be a lit­tle sin­is­ter for the Dumb Bun­nies series.

I’m going to go with some­thing a lit­tle darker. The third rab­bit appears to have an exoskele­ton, sug­gest­ing some sort of cyborg or zom­bie bunny, or alter­nately, if its skele­ton is being viewed via the pow­ers of x-ray vision, then I sug­gest there is a super­hero in a lum­ber­jack jacket and weird furry flappy hat some­where in the region.

Beef rab­bit is a bit gross, but still makes me hungry.