Food-Themed Baby Halloween Costumes
Suicide Food points out the unsettling side of Martha Stewart's baby Halloween costumes that turn your helpless bundle of joy into a roast turkey or lobster: "You are pretending for your baby, imagining she is food, meat, a dead and cooked animal." Perhaps slightly less gruesome: a salad or a pie.
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6 Comments:
Martha's goldfish baby costume is much cuter, and it's not a food item (except when consumed during drunken college dares). The baby chick costume from the same article is cute, too—though it's for toddlers and not babies.
Adam Kuban at 5:16PM on 10/19/07
When my children were small, I used to tell them I would eat them for dinner if they did not stop misbehaving. Then I would ask them how they would like to be cooked. Braised? Baked? Sauteed perhaps with garlic and herbs?
I really wish those food Halloween costumes had been around then. It would have been so great to have a turkey or a lobster costume that I could have hung from the kitchen wall so that when the kids were doing whatever naughty things children do I could just pull the costumes right down (I'd hang them on Velcro for easy access!) off the wall and hold them out towards the kids, saying, "Which do you want to be for dinner tonight, little Munchkin?"
Actually if anyone knows where I can get those costumes in a size for teenagers, I am ready to order them. Overnight shipping, please.
Karen Resta at 7:21PM on 10/19/07
One of my favorite things is seeing Dachshunds dressed as mustarded up hot dogs. Nothing about a baby lobster bothers me.
In fact, I'd consider borrowing someone's baby just to dress it up like a lobster. Well, no.
LoDega at 8:18PM on 10/20/07
My de facto grand daughter Jenna, (14 months old), has the ideal personality to go as a "Ham"!
Last Halloween, (and I only wish I would have thought of this), she could have been "Pig in a Blanket".
srhcb at 11:35AM on 10/21/07
We're dressing our daughter as a legume (a peanut, to be exact). And I'm trying to convince my husband that one of us should dress head to toe in pale yellow and the other in purple, so we can go as peanut, butter, and jelly.
On a related-yet-not note, does anyone have any ideas for what to give out at the door other than mini candybars? Is there any healthier option that parents aren't afraid of these days?
swirlingnotions at 2:48PM on 10/22/07
I just saw some popcorn balls (aargh, of course not homemade nobody would trust that these days) all wrapped up in cellophane and decorated in a Halloween theme at Sam's Club. We don't have trick-or-treaters too much in my neighborhood but I got some anyway and the kids are already into them. They're pretty good. :)
Karen Resta at 5:08PM on 10/22/07