Kawaii: Cucumbers, Now Available In Star And Heart Varieties
Tuesday 25 August 2009 @ 7:55 am | By Sol 13 Comments
Bento boxes are known for having flair. Mundane ingredients combined into life like art, transforms the lunch hour into a epic battle between you and your food. Alternatively, if you want to show a little love in your stir fry, an agricultural cooperative have developed a way to grow cucumbers in both star and heart shaped varieties by using a plastic mold attached to the stem of the bud.
I can’t say I care much for vegetables and until scientists make them taste like steak I don’t see myself eating many of them, however, this does add a cuteness factor that just makes them irresistible. And that’s how they get ‘cha…




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Stars and hearts, really? Wasn’t it enough to have them penis shaped? -.-
First watermelons, now cucumbers, next will be apples!
“I can’t say I care much for vegetables and until scientists make them taste like steak” truer words have never been spoken.
now that’s an idea…
salads would definitely be a wonder to behold if that were to happen
What can I tell you, Sol loves his steak flavored pickles.
It will get better when meat gets as balanced and weight reducing as katana-shaped carrots or stuff. We need those too!
How cucumbers are shaped in stars and hearts????
i’d imagine they use bottles or “molds” when they’re just starting… then they grow into the shape…
much like a tree’s trunk grows around stuff…
I can think of lots of things that grow into shape….-_-
The molds are right there on the image!
yah.. i skipped over the smaller pics xD
just saw the big salad and read the article xDUu
It somehow brightened my day )=
Oh japan and their love for morphing things into cute shapes! :p