Clown face pork luncheon meat photo

I'm sorry, I don't eat anything with a face-- that's happy. I like my meat-faces to be frozen in an expressin of pure horror. Kids must love clown faces sandwiches.

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#12 posted by spokehedz , May 5, 2008 11:14 AM

@Rob: They are fairly easy to make.

All tube-meats (Frankfurters, hot-dogs, bologna, 'wursts) are basically pureed down to a almost-liquid state. Then they are injected into a tube/casing which may or may not be removed at the factory before shipping to retail outlets.

Normally they are extruded through a single die--a circle, square, whatever--and then packaged. However, when you want a design...

Simply color some parts of the meat darker pink/red with food coloring. Then, in a process that is not unlike the stripes in toothpaste, simply allow the colored parts to be injected in the proper places inside the meat that is travelling out of the machine via a mold that looks like the outline of the picture.

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#13 posted by airship , May 5, 2008 11:15 AM

Extrusion. Is there anything it can't do?

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#14 posted by Argon , May 5, 2008 11:19 AM

The bears http://www.reinert.de/english/marken/baerchen/baerchenwurst

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#15 posted by ROSSINDETROIT , May 5, 2008 11:22 AM

Okay, now I want to see a slice of this pan fried.

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#16 posted by Moon , May 5, 2008 11:30 AM

I think it's just a happy face, not a "happy horror" face.

You are reading way too much into a piece of baloney.

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#17 posted by sonny p fontaine , May 5, 2008 11:31 AM

as far as i'm concerned that's all clowns are good for. could it be delicious? possibly with some pickle relish and a spot of yellow mustard on some good white bread. stupid clown call me fat. ha, i'll feast in yer slurried processed corpse. why can't the frozen ice cream treat industry that example of this precision work?

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#18 posted by Ryan Waddell

, May 5, 2008 11:39 AM

They had something similar to this in Ireland. They called it "Billy Roll". I was under the impression that it was similar to bologna, though I never tried it.

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#19 posted by batesman

, May 5, 2008 11:42 AM

If I remember correctly, this type of meat was actually called 'Gesichtswurst' here in Austria, which yummily translates to 'face meat'.

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#20 posted by arkizzle , May 5, 2008 11:46 AM

Hmm.. never came across Billy Roll, but in Holland I ate this stuff when times were bad. It was always the cheapest thing in the shop, so a few slices of 'clown face' and a loaf of turkish bread kept us alive when the chips were down..

Never again! (until the bad times are back, I suppose)

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#21 posted by Teapunk , May 5, 2008 11:49 AM

You can get this (or similiar) in nearly every German supermarket. Where it's called "Kinderwurst", which I would loosely translate into "Kids sausage".
I'm so used to it I didn't consider it weird (much), but from the outside I agree, it's pretty strange.
Why do you want your sandwich to stare at you?
Has this something to do with Douglas Adams' pig that wants to be eaten?

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#22 posted by UnderRat , May 5, 2008 11:53 AM

Oh, I want a Jesus baloney!! The Meat of Turin!!!

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#23 posted by UnderRat , May 5, 2008 11:55 AM

With the Cheeses of Nazareth!!!

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#24 posted by Argon , May 5, 2008 12:01 PM

This might be an approximation of what you get when you slice it diagonally. http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/munch_scream.jpg

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#25 posted by Stefan Jones

, May 5, 2008 12:14 PM

#21: Where it's called "Kinderwurst", which I would loosely translate into "Kids sausage".

Please, please, please tell me there was supposed to be an apostrophe after "Kids" in that sentence.

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#26 posted by demidan , May 5, 2008 12:40 PM

Where's the Olives in the eye? That and I need some now!

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#27 posted by Cefeida , May 5, 2008 2:00 PM

#18, mum used to buy that for my sister and me. That two-year old pixie ADORED it. When I recall the taste, I don't know why I ever agreed to have that in my sandwich. It did look good on a bun, though.

I always dug the eyes out, first, then the mouth, and played Hannibal Lecter with the remains. Om nom nom nom.

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#28 posted by Strange Quark Star , May 5, 2008 2:38 PM

#25: Not necessarily, “Kinderwurst” could be both kid's sausage and kid(s) sausage (from a purely linguistic view, that is).

Ah, the ambiguity of the German language...

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#29 posted by Ari B.

, May 5, 2008 3:00 PM

I just don't dig on swine...

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#30 posted by Lastard , May 6, 2008 9:47 AM

This is actually a very normal sight for German meat eaters. They've funny-faced sausage meats for decades!