Friends don't let friends eat friends

i-34f0db74ed826578d9d2525dddd9b919-901687_L.jpg

These are Food Chain Friends. According to FAO Schwartz, "They're friends. They eat each other. It's a complicated relationship!" Uh. . . okay. You try to explain that to YOUR kids!

i-087425fa259602b10f0c181b5e82effd-901689_L.jpg

Via Boing Boing Gadgets

More like this

If you thought the knitted Lab Rat and Frog were cool, check out these guys: They're Food Chain Friends! Thanks to someone's great insight at FAO Schwarz, you can buy your kids these loveable critters which demonstrate the food chain in all its plushy goodness. Food Chain Friends are from Daro, a…
Or so says USA Today on the front page, paragraph two (regarding sausage, bacon and lunchmeat). Of course they are contradicted on paragraph 8 by someone who says that "you can still occasionally have a hot dog". The no safe level of bacon sounded fishy to me so I dug through the report (all 517…
A few weeks ago, Greta got a new iPod. I was, naturally, interested to see how it worked since it was supposed to be the latest technology, but Greta would hardly let me touch it: "It's mine, and I want to learn how to use it before you do," she told me. This was surprising to me, since I…
This time we sat down with the ever-elusive Dr. Signout, of Signout. What's your name? Ooooh. Sorry, can't tell you that. What do you do when you're not blogging? Why, I provide compassionate, evidence-based patient care at a high rate of speed. If I'm not doing that, I'm probably traveling,…

Well... some friends eat each other...

Man. I'd hate to be FAO Schwartz's PR flack when some concerned parent decides realizes that these toys are a child's intro to 'vore.(probably best to not google that at work)

"They're friends. They eat each other. It's a complicated relationship!" Uh. . . okay. You try to explain that to YOUR kids!

I think the tech term is "Vorarephilia". Googling that term includes a Cthuloid insanity warning of 0.9 of a Nyarlathotep. How the hell I actually know that probably says a lot more about me than anyone particularly wants to know, so don't ask.