Death by Doughnut
My older son is learning about climate in school, and the class is reading the 1978 book by Judi Barrett, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which is being interpreted as a tale of catastrophic global warming. Global warming is the hot-button issue in Canada at the moment, so the subject is very timely.
It's a delightful book about the town of Chewandswallow, where it rains food instead of regular precipitation. For example, this is a mashed potatoes and peas drizzle followed by storms of hamburgers.
Suddenly and inexplicably, the weather goes awry, with the food coming in deluges, and the portions getting bigger and more destructive.
This is what fifteen-inch drifts of sandwiches look like.
This poor woman is running for her life from a couple of doughnuts.
Note the fellow being crushed by a hamburger, and the pickle that's crashed into the house. I love the overcast porkchop sky!
It gets so bad that the townsfolk are forced to construct ships from massive pieces of stale bread, and sail away to a land where people buy their food from grocery stores.
It's a delightful book about the town of Chewandswallow, where it rains food instead of regular precipitation. For example, this is a mashed potatoes and peas drizzle followed by storms of hamburgers.
Suddenly and inexplicably, the weather goes awry, with the food coming in deluges, and the portions getting bigger and more destructive.
This is what fifteen-inch drifts of sandwiches look like.
This poor woman is running for her life from a couple of doughnuts.
Note the fellow being crushed by a hamburger, and the pickle that's crashed into the house. I love the overcast porkchop sky!
It gets so bad that the townsfolk are forced to construct ships from massive pieces of stale bread, and sail away to a land where people buy their food from grocery stores.
posted by ax174 at
7:56 AM
