Fresh Juicy Tomatoes

Danny Choo is a guestblogger on Boing Boing. Danny resides in Tokyo, and blogs about life in Japan and Japanese subculture - he also works part time for the empire.

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Don't you just lurve the taste of fresh juicy tomatoes with yer burger?
A cross section of a Tomato from a Japanese perspective...
Living Tomato.

[#1 posted by mdh, February 13, 2009 11:40 PM]

Killer!

[#2 posted by EH, February 14, 2009 12:38 AM]

i want the whole image to frame for my kitchen. plskthx.

[#3 posted by rasz, February 14, 2009 2:01 AM]

japanese burgers? mmm tasty whale/dolphin

[#4 posted by ridl, February 14, 2009 2:56 AM]

This might keep me up. Can we have an explanation other than "Japanese wackiness" please? Why does the fruit have organs? Why?

[#5 posted by rasz, February 14, 2009 3:35 AM]

>Why does the fruit have organs?

so you could rape it
:)

[#6 posted by Nelson.C, February 14, 2009 5:50 AM]

I've always had this very visceral reaction to sliced tomatoes, especially fried ones. To me the inside of a tomato already resembles the inside of some alien creature. I like the taste of tomatoes, but I can't stand to look at them while I eat them.

[#7 posted by holtt, February 14, 2009 8:51 AM]

All these years I've been trimming off the wrong end

[#8 posted by WeightedCompanionCube, February 14, 2009 9:10 AM]

There's no head, it's just organs... I imagine the vine itself is the sentient part. Perhaps the brain is in the root system?

Or perhaps the artist is depicting a still-embryonic killer tomato.

[#9 posted by fullerenedream, February 14, 2009 12:54 PM]

How disturbing!

[#10 posted by vettekaas, February 14, 2009 4:54 PM]

you say /tometo/ I say /tomato/

[#11 posted by Anonymous, February 14, 2009 5:46 PM]

Don't tell the vegetarians!

[#12 posted by bkofford, February 15, 2009 2:22 AM]

Could be a persimmon.

[#13 posted by monitorhead, February 16, 2009 6:10 PM]

wow. this is nice. My wife was taking a dietary therapy class, as part of her masters for acupuncture and Eastern medicine. Always explaining (and me half listening) how certain food items are related to certain parts of the body. altho she claims that they discussed tomato being good for the heart, as it's shaped like one? I'm thinking she meant the inside of the tomato. Heh!