Video: “Food Fight”
posted at 8:11 am on March 10, 2008 by Allahpundit
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There’s more here than meets the eye although I didn’t realize it until the 9/11 reenactment halfway through. A hint: Pay attention to the ethnic origins of each type of food, not just the virtuoso animation. Otherwise all you’re looking at are hamburgers dropping bombs on falafel.
As we fade in the year is 1939…
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WOW!
Ludwig on March 10, 2008 at 8:27 AM
OK, I my have to look at this a few more times . but at first blush i get the end theme of “nobody wins but the bugs?”.
bbz123 on March 10, 2008 at 8:27 AM
Are the bugs the international bankers?
USBB on March 10, 2008 at 8:42 AM
Mom always said not to play with my food.
trubble on March 10, 2008 at 8:42 AM
Clever.
This video does more for food than Inconvenient Al did for the climate. Give that video a Nobel Peas Prize.
petefrt on March 10, 2008 at 8:45 AM
Go to the youtube site and one of the commentors is decrying the waste of food that could have gone to the homeless.
Rich on March 10, 2008 at 9:52 AM
HA! That was great! The Hamburgers kicked azz! The only thing wrong was that it makes it look like we lose Vietnam and have a tie with our jihadi enemies. But I love the night vision scope!
Tony737 on March 10, 2008 at 9:54 AM
And an Oscar..
Mayer.
jgapinoy on March 10, 2008 at 9:55 AM
I think I have an upset stomach now….must have been that gut ‘bomb’ I had for supper! :)
Vntnrse on March 10, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Much worse.
Kid from Brooklyn on March 10, 2008 at 9:58 AM
That is the most vivid and accurate political cartoon i’ve ever seen.
meandchi on March 10, 2008 at 10:06 AM
screwed up the strong tag. i meant accurate.
meandchi on March 10, 2008 at 10:07 AM
I actually almost shed a tear when the twin tower burgers went down.
Grafted on March 10, 2008 at 10:13 AM
:D
Rich on March 10, 2008 at 10:22 AM
The video left out the part where the roasted pig says …..
“Hamburger Towers would never collapse like that.”
fogw on March 10, 2008 at 10:47 AM
Yeah the tower thing, even though they were burgers, was still a bit too real for me.
Anyway, I have a few questions if anyone cares to answer/knows.
First, the cracker-looking thing at the beginning was what, exactly? Then, at 3:52, what event was that? The 2:59 spring rolls.. and was 2:03 the USS Cole bombing?
amkun on March 10, 2008 at 10:52 AM
I assume you’re counting down :)
The crackers are Matzoh – in the beginning the Jewish victims of the Nazis, later the Israelis (vs. the Arab shish-ka-bobs.)
3:52 was the formation of Israel (I think that’s a British fish pulling away from the matzoh, leaving the lox roll to waste the Arabs)
2:59 area is Vietnam. The French (fries) are chased out by the Spring Rolls, then the US burger comes in and goes at it with the Rolls and the Chinese pot stickers. Mmmm pot stickers! Unfortunately it makes it look like we took a pretty bad beating in ‘Nam.
I think 2:03 is the Intifada – a suicide pita in Israel.
Hannibal Smith on March 10, 2008 at 11:09 AM
At the beginning, the “cracker” was matzoh representing the Jews. The pretzels were the Germans and the scene was the cleansing of the Jewish ghettos.
The timer on my viewer goes up instead of down, so I don’t know where the other time points are in your post. The events with the spring rolls appear to be the Korean War. If you are thinking about the pita bread sandwhich next to the bagel and matzohs, that represents the PLO bombings in Israel.
Mallard T. Drake on March 10, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Damn! I realize it was a history lesson of sorts, but now I have this irrational craving. I want a double decker cheeseburger, some Arabian chicken, a plate of sushi, a souvlaki, some fries and some matzoh and gefilte fish.
Oldnuke on March 10, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Awesome. Got it, thanks. I mistook the croissants for France, so the french fry thing did not connect at all, heh. Vietnam was a no-brainer, though. Doh.
amkun on March 10, 2008 at 11:22 AM
Was that lump of cabbage borscht? It’s scarier than I imagined.
Nosferightu on March 10, 2008 at 11:26 AM
I think the croissants are France (or French forces) while the fries are French colonists (hiding behind Americans when the VietMinh rise up?)
The YouTube page links to a “cheat sheet,” but site the hosting it has exceeded its bandwidth limits :(
Hannibal Smith on March 10, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Drat. Is it my imagination, or is a HA link “the kiss of death” to YouTube videos?
cthulhu on March 10, 2008 at 11:35 AM
It was beef stroganoff.
amkun on March 10, 2008 at 11:45 AM
YouTube vids crap out about 50% of the time on my computer when I go through HA.
txsurveyor on March 10, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Sometimes it works if you actually follow the link to the video, rather than trying to see it as an embedded video.
That’s what I assumed, too, but later the fries are clearly American. Also, the shish-ka-bobs represent not just Arabs, but all Muslim-majority people, e.g., the red-topped ones represent the Afghan Communists. I think.
calbear on March 10, 2008 at 12:12 PM
I hope they didn’t waste perfectly good sushi on this crap.
Virus-X on March 10, 2008 at 12:17 PM
I need to brush up on ethnic food.
Dusty on March 10, 2008 at 12:30 PM
No, they’re… (shriek!) New York Money People!
(”Always look at who benefits, my friend…”)
Tzetzes on March 10, 2008 at 12:31 PM
OK – here’s a handy key in no particular order for the historically and gastronomically challenged:
Hamburgers / Chicken Nuggets / White Castle / Fries: Americans
Beef Stroganoff: Russians
Egg Roll / Pot Stickers: Chinese
Matzoh / Bagel & Lox : Jews & Israel
Croissants: French
Falafel Balls: Muslim Terrorists
Cold Cut Sandwich: Eastern Europe
Sushi: Japanese
Kimchi: Koreans
Spring Roll: Vietnamese
Shish Kebab (No Pepper): Arab Muslims & Afghan Muslims
Shish Kebab (Yellow Pepper): Kuwait
Shish Kebab (Red Pepper): Iraq
Fish & Chips : Great Britain
Go Hamburgers & Matzoh!
NeoConSnakePlissken on March 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM
I can’t decide whether this is twisted crap or poignant genius. Either way an original piece.
dvldog1142 on March 10, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Did anyone else notice controlled explosions inside of those hamburger towers? I also noticed a freedom fry wearing cowboy boots coming out right before the explosions were triggered.
Was there pizza, meatballs or pasta in WWII, or did I miss it?
Hening on March 10, 2008 at 12:45 PM
OH!
I forgot.
Pretzels / Sausage: Germans
They seemed to have forgotten the Spaghetti in the beginning as well…
NeoConSnakePlissken on March 10, 2008 at 12:45 PM
You know what was also missing? The part where the Beef Stroganoff rotted the Hamburger from within. Just Like it did with the Spring Rolls, Kimchi and Pot Stickers.
NeoConSnakePlissken on March 10, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Strange.
WayWard Fundamentalist Christian on March 10, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Or the fact that the Pretzels were working with the Shish Kebabs all along.
NeoConSnakePlissken on March 10, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Two more things worth noting:
-Looks like 3 of 4 names in the credits are Jooos (like me)
-I could use a cuban sandwich right now. Highly unkosher, but MMMMM.
Rich on March 10, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Frickin’ oustanding. AP, not sure how ya come up with this stuff, but I love it so.
ChipDWood on March 10, 2008 at 1:16 PM
I think you’re right. It looks like a play on that old Fred Quimby cartoon “Peace on Earth”.
srhoades on March 10, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Also missing was the collapse and rebuilding of the beef stroganoff.
And pretzels actualy came from Austria, but then again, so did Hitler.
Tony737 on March 10, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Wow. How long did that take to make?
Scenes I’d like to see: Cuban missile crisis/Bay of pigs
Grenada
Panama
Was the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait there? I have to watch again.
Serbia? Was that in there? Awesome nonetheless, but the towers will forever be something that hurts, no matter how it’s depicted. I relive it every time.
TexasDan on March 10, 2008 at 1:26 PM
This is a google cache of the Battle Breakdown page. the other page listed has a cached copy but it is not useful give it uses pictures ( which at this moment are broken.
pritzcovan on March 10, 2008 at 1:36 PM
The arms race at 2:38 is awesome. The beef nuke was pretty sweet too.
darclon on March 10, 2008 at 1:41 PM
That made me hungry and lose my appetite all a once.
Kini on March 10, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Loved the atom bomb dropped on sushi town, haha.
mattyj86 on March 10, 2008 at 2:48 PM
I’m an Idiot.
The thing I thought was Eastern Europe was a Cuban Sandwich.
Cuban Missile Crisis? uh, Hello?
I got my sandwiches mixed up.
NeoConSnakePlissken on March 10, 2008 at 3:38 PM
They also forgot to have the sushi shtupping the potstickers and eggrolls. (i.e., Rape of Nanjing)
On my screen the Kimchi looked like pasta w/tomato sauce.
And I thought “what did the ITALIANS have to do with the Asian conflicts?” Then when I realized it was kimchi, it all fell into place.
The stroganoff was gross. Maybe they shoulda used a bottle of Vodka to represent the Russians instead.
BOTH the Arab and Israeli sides shoulda had the Falafel. It’s actually lebanese food, the Israelis simply adopted it and made it more well known in the West.
Shirotayama on March 10, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Yeah, me too.
I’m another one for whom seeing the burger towers falling was just a LITTLE too raw, still. Frankly, I doubt it’ll ever NOT be raw for me. Someday if I’m lucky enough to be some wizened little 80-year old, even then it will STILL be too raw for me.
Shirotayama on March 10, 2008 at 3:46 PM
Methinks the bit at the end with the bugs has to do with the cockroaches surviving nuclear holocaust and feeding on our remains after humans have all killed each other off.
Shirotayama on March 10, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Oh great! Now I’ve got a hankering for White Castles. Unfortunately I’ve got to settle for the suckie frozen ones.
gzelmiami on March 10, 2008 at 5:06 PM
..This explains why no matter what I eat it gives me diarrhea.
Capitana on March 10, 2008 at 6:38 PM
THIS ONLY FEEDS THE HUNGER FOR WAR!!!!!!
- The Cat
P.S. /s
MirCat on March 10, 2008 at 7:57 PM
What I’ve noticed – I tend to open many tabs at once and then read at leisure – is that if I don’t click the link immediately, it times out.
Refreshing the page (F5 in firefox) usually makes the YouTube embed viewable again.
sulla on March 10, 2008 at 8:10 PM
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