When I was a kid, like for most people, I was always told not to play with my food. Of course that didn’t stop me from making hot butter lava filled volcanoes with my mashed potatoes and sadistically biting the heads off our animal crackers as I pretended to be a giant alien princess trying to take over the zoo. But never in a million years could I have imagined the amazing things that can be created when you let artists use food as their medium. Take a look at these eight great videos of artists being creative and turning the adage -food is meant to be eaten - on it’s head.


Warning: All of these videos have sound, so if ya don’t want a whole bunch of background music playing, hit mute!

1. Phil Henson painting the Mona Greasa with nothing but the grease off a bag of hamburgers. Pretty amazing, but pretty scary all at the same time!

2. Another Phil Henson masterpiece…this time using Oreo Cookies. Curious there’s not a glass of milk to be seen anywhere in this video.

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3. Who knew chocolate syrup was made for more than just ice cream? Watch as Xiaonan creates amazing detail using nothing but his fingers, a spoon, and a bottle of chocolate syrup. Roar!

4. Elvis, black velvet and cheese puffs….need I say more?

5. Faster than a rice cooker….it’s Kikkoman. Watch Ben paint a wall mural of Kikkoman using Kikkoman soy sauce. And while you’re there, watch the related video of him drinking and entire bottle…why? Not sure but I guess some will do anything to be one with their art.

6. This one’s a compilation of a whole bunch of funny fruit and vegetable sculptures. I’ll warn you , it’s a little on the cute site, but honestly how can you resist flocks of cauliflower sheep and kissing strawberries?

7. From an episode of the Food Channel’s show “Unwrapped” this video features a guy who uses ABC (ABC = already been chewed for those of you not up on your gum lingo) gum to sculpt and create relief art. Um, ewww! Cool….but ewww!

8. Watch this Art of the Watermelon video to see Hugh McMahon carve a likeness of James Beard out of a watermelon. I’m liking this…it’s kinda like pumpkin carving but for the summertime, neat!

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