# There are faces in the broccoli! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395 "2008-10-24T17:45:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/1 "2008-10-24T17:45:56Z")
I had to share this thing i found on the [Consumerist](http://consumerist.com/5067351/oh-my-god-why-are-there-terrifying-little-faces-in-the-broccoli) website. I think it’s excellent. Apparently, the package image on Cascadian Farms broccoli has had little faces inserted by persons unknown - presumably from the advertising or art departments. I’ve uploaded a slightly enlarged version of the image to my webspace, and you can see it [here](https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/mhender4/public_html/gen_images/whyisthishappening.jpg). Very strange and funny. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/2 "2008-10-24T17:48:12Z")
Mommy, why does my broccoli scream when I bite into it? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/3 "2008-10-24T17:49:14Z")
I count four (maybe five). Are there more? ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/4 "2008-10-24T20:33:18Z")
I honestly thought this thread was going to be about food contamination, and that there was a typo in the title. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/5 "2008-10-24T20:42:44Z")
I was sort of expecting a Virgin Mary in the potato chip type of thing. I think they’re adorable. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/6 "2008-10-24T21:20:31Z")
Being the most hopelessly uncool weirdo in the known universe, I picked up a box at my grocery store today, and indeed, there are faces on it. My kids got a kick out of it. On the other hand, I got yet another of those ball-crushing reminders of my own mortality in that it was an exceedingly hard squint to make them out. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/7 "2008-10-24T21:33:57Z")
So does this mean that the “I don’t eat anything with a face” Vegans won’t be able to eat it now? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/8 "2008-10-24T21:39:23Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > Being the most hopelessly uncool weirdo in the known universe, I picked up a box at my grocery store today, and indeed, there are faces on it. That’s good to know. My one reservation about posting this thread was that the whole thing might be some Photoshop hoax perpetrated on the Consumerist. I might have to grab myself a packet, just for fun. And **beowulff** , i get the same count as you: four definites, and one maybe, near the bottom of the picture. ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/9 "2008-10-24T21:42:11Z")
There are always faces in the broccoli. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/10 "2008-10-24T21:48:42Z")
I count 6. 1. In profile to the left 2. One centre 3. One below centre 4.One to right of centre 5.One above the large white stalk 4. One below the one to the right of centre ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/11 "2008-10-25T01:37:58Z")
They look like the Osmond family circa 1976. Except for the one near the center. That one looks like Janet off “Three’s Company”. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/12 "2008-10-25T01:41:12Z")
People may be in the broccoli, but [God](http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2007/08/freethinker_sunday_sermonette_60.php) is in the eggplant. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/13 "2008-10-25T12:58:43Z")
All dead… all rotten. Elves and men and orcses. A great battle, long ago. The Dead Mushies… yes, that is their name. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/14 "2008-10-26T13:41:16Z")
Strangely enough I once saw the likeness of of Jesus Christs face in a damp patch on a wall. Well I say likeness,but in reality it wasn’t the face of a first century Jew but more a western european via Byzantium impression of what a gods face would look like. You know what I mean,white skinned, bearded and with long hair rather then anything at all like the real McCoy. But its still pretty mysterious all the same. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/15 "2008-10-26T14:03:29Z")
The broccoli version of an Easter Egg. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/16 "2008-10-26T23:29:18Z")
How delightful - I suppose it was the graphic designer just doing it for kicks. I’m trying to recall a similar incident where something was hidden in the design on a toffee tin or something like that, and was only revealed after the guy who designed it was sacked - not even sure if it wasn’t a UL. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/17 "2008-10-27T14:57:05Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I had to share this thing i found on the [Consumerist](http://consumerist.com/5067351/oh-my-god-why-are-there-terrifying-little-faces-in-the-broccoli) website. I think it’s excellent. > > Apparently, the package image on Cascadian Farms broccoli has had little faces inserted by persons unknown - presumably from the advertising or art departments. > > I’ve uploaded a slightly enlarged version of the image to my webspace, and you can see it [here](https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/mhender4/public_html/gen_images/whyisthishappening.jpg). > > Very strange and funny. Save that broccoli! That WAS Jesus! Anybody know about the “Vigen mary” on that dirty hospital widow (Milton, MA0-is it in some museum somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![laughingboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@laughingboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laughingboy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/18 "2008-10-27T15:08:38Z")
What’s even more off-putting is that there is broccoli in the broccoli. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/19 "2008-10-27T15:58:49Z")
I don’t find it scary or creepy–I think it’s cool. Maybe there’s an entire world of people, living and hiding within the Broccoli. What would their world be like? Can they move within their spear and visit other Broccoli people? Are their last names Floret or Stalk? I bet they hate the Cauliflower Folk. Bet they vote pro-chlorophyll. (this is only partially intended to be funny–faces in the veggies intrigue me). I am so weird. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395/20 "2008-10-27T16:11:20Z")
One wonders what Wilson Brian Key would think of this. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-faces-in-the-broccoli/469395.md?page=2)