# Have you ever dressed up as giant food? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318 "2013-10-04T01:30:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318/1 "2013-10-04T01:30:12Z")
You know for a school pageant. From Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird dressed as a giant ham to the new camera/phone commercial, school kids dress up as food and sing and dance and stuff. The costumes seem to limit mobility. But I have never done this, nor have I ever seen it. Does this really exist? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318/2 "2013-10-04T01:39:14Z")
I was a giant can of pop one year for Halloween. Yes, it severely limited mobility. I seem to have a penchant for mobility-limiting Halloween costumes. EDIT: It wasn’t for a school play, but I figured it’s close enough. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318/3 "2013-10-04T01:40:11Z")
I mean for school. School pageant or play. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318/4 "2013-10-04T01:42:03Z")
You know, it’s thread titles like this that remind me why I love the Dope (and no, I’ve never dressed up as a giant food). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318/5 "2013-10-04T01:56:21Z")
I was an incredibly weepy potato-- my beloved family was going to be turned into mashed potatoes and eaten for Thanskgiving dinner. My costume, I believe, consisted of a sheet of posterboard, with a potato drawn on it, and colored by Me. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318/6 "2013-10-04T02:47:06Z")
Well, I did, but I didn’t have to. We had a thing called Junior Olympics at one of my schools where each class got a country and had to dress up as someone or something from that country. One year I was a banana. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318/7 "2013-10-04T02:57:21Z")
If a giant bag of jellybeans counts as food, then “yes”. But for Halloween, not a school play. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318/8 "2013-10-04T03:28:31Z")
No, but I got my first ever pair of jeans for a 2nd grade production of “FIFTY Singular Sensations” (Sung to the similarly and more logically named “One Singular Sensation\*”). It was for some school assembly designed to be all patriotic for some occasion I can’t exactly recall; Fifty referred to the states. We wore jeans, white tee shirts, white gloves and black top hats for the costumes. Every class had a number, but I don’t recall any of them being food. \*Also the first time I had a teacher sigh in exasperation and remove me from the group because I would not STFU about the illogic of 50…Singular, or the line, “…each and every one the best!” ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318/9 "2013-10-04T04:47:47Z")
Back when I was in highschool, I had a part-time job that involved me wearing a bagel suit and waving at traffic. Does that count? It was hot, but thankfully, my face was covered so nobody knew it was me. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318/10 "2013-10-04T04:51:38Z")
I was a Thanksgiving turkey in 2nd grade. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318/11 "2013-10-04T05:15:28Z")
I was a coffee bean in a performance about El Salvador. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-dressed-up-as-giant-food/670318/12 "2013-10-04T05:34:53Z")
Yes, in a (Jewish) Sunday School musical, I was a potato. The play was about latke ingredients, and I sang a song about my life underground, to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Tit-Willow.” My costume was burlap, with eyes painting on it. I’m surprised this didn’t launch a successful acting career.