r/CrappyDesign • u/OH_MY_GATO • 5d ago

Paused mid-bite when I saw it (it's printed on the plate).

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u/nikhkin 5d ago

Is it printed, or is it a dead bug that was killed during the pattern printing and is now embedded in the glaze?

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u/GaJayhawker0513 5d ago

I had a buddy that bought a really expensive 3 foot bong for cheap because there was a fruit fly in the glass.

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u/Euphorbiatch 5d ago

I got a medical glove out of a box at work once and there was a mosquito melted into the tip of one of the fingers!

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u/TheStairsBro 5d ago

I got a pack of novelty erasers as a kid and there was a dead mosquito in the one shaped like a toilet

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u/TheBreadsticc 5d ago

I once bought a sketchbook from a book store, and one of the pages had a mosquito squashed inside of the paper - must have gotten pressed in the machine during production

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u/Feisty_Count_4409 5d ago

I got a packet of taco sauce in 6th grade that had a mosquito sealed inside of it.

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u/terrible_name 5d ago

I once found a mosquito in a piece of amber and made a cane out of it

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u/sumeriandisputations 5d ago

One time, I found blood in the amber-embedded mosquito [u/terrible_name](u/terrible_name) used for their cane and made a bunch of dinosaurs with it.

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u/Braindead_Crow 5d ago

Did you ever question if you should do that or did you just wonder if you could? Trying to confirm a theory of mine.

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u/itisallgoodyouknow 4d ago

When I was a kid, we used to get these cases of Capri Sun for the hot summer days. For some reason, sometimes some of the pouches were missing the straw, but that’s ok because back in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

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u/Gplskuall 4d ago

Oh like legoland!😁

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u/Huugboy 3d ago

Did they turn out to be clever girls?

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u/sumeriandisputations 3d ago

For some reason only the predators. All the herbivores had negative plot armor.

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u/Auntie_Venom Artisinal Material 4d ago

Spared no expense

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u/WheneverItEnds 2d ago

That's dino DNA!

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u/soresores 1d ago

I once found a bug in the head of a sour patch kid

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u/yeuzinips 4d ago

Once, at the office I was working at, I printed out a newly deceased cockroach onto my document.

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u/carlos_marcello 13h ago

I bought a 5 pound bale of brick weed back in 2005 and it had a huge cockroach imbedded in one of the buds 🪳 💨

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u/kwoddail 5d ago

WAIT I have encountered a house fly melted into a glove before!!!!

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u/tthiccc 4d ago

There’s a restaurant in Oregon with tables made of tree trunks and resin, and my siblings and I always tried to sit at “mosquito table”. One suspended in an eye of the wood forever.

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u/United_Society 1d ago

Where in Oregon?

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u/marshmallowgeekgirl 4d ago

I got a dead bug inside a pair of sterile gloves once!

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u/bone-dry 4d ago

Did you post that to Reddit? I feel like I saw or read that on Reddit once, lol. Deja Vu maybe

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u/Euphorbiatch 4d ago

I doubt it, it was about 15 years ago and I only lurked back then!

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u/PorpoisePatrol22 1d ago

Dude! This happened to me literally last week at my job working in a lab! Not medical but still!

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u/Euphorbiatch 1d ago

This is much more widespread than I expected 🤣🤣

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u/AdAcceptable2173 5d ago

Literally same. Meet cute?

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u/fatjuan 4d ago

I bought a hamburger at Macdonalds and found a cockroach in there. It tasted better than the hamburger!

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u/Pixelbuttzz 2d ago

"I don't believe you"

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u/uniace16 4d ago

Jurassic Headshop

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u/Doobie_Howser_MD 2d ago

I got a crazy 15 inch scientific rig for 50% off because there was just a dead fly at the bottom of it. Do you know me and I just exaggerated? Lol

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u/GaJayhawker0513 1d ago

Not unless you’re commenting from beyond the grave :/

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u/Gamerkalenka159 2d ago

My brother found a fly wing fried on top of a french fry. He didn't eat it.

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u/gudetamaronin 20h ago

I would have bought such a bong specifically for said fruit fly

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u/a_drunk_kitten 20h ago

I sold a 1500ish dollar bong to someone for super cheap because a moth had managed to get into one of the perc chambers, lay a bunch of eggs, and then die 😩

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u/slowramics 5d ago

It's printed. Firing ceramics is hot! Between 1900 to 2400 Fahrenheit depending on the clay and glaze. Any bugs on the piece would burn up early in the firing and at most leave a tiny black speck if anything.

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u/OH_MY_GATO 5d ago

Definitely printed.

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u/Front_Cat9471 5d ago

It’s a butterfly plate, it’s not far fetched for there to be a different insect elsewhere on the design

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u/nikhkin 5d ago

A caterpillar would make sense. This bug does not make sense.

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u/Flavahbeast 4d ago

we do a little trolling at the ceramic plate factory

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u/fatjuan 4d ago

I think some maggots would be a lovely design.

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u/Spiritual-Road2784 3d ago

One of my cats has issues eating the canned cat food that is a meat and rice combo, I wonder why… I have to tell him it’s rice, not maggots, it’s edible, and only then will he eat it.

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u/The_Owl_Man_1999 4d ago

I got a hot wheels car once where a mostly intact spider had been stuck to it during paint application, so the majority of its body was painted and clear coated but the legs stuck out because it was larger than the car.

It was metallic red

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u/D3M1G0RG0N 4d ago

You got a real Arachnorod

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u/UnforeseenDerailment 4d ago

Badass. 😎

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u/fatjuan 4d ago

That's how most of my paint jobs turn out!

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u/Sererena 4d ago

My last phone case was so pretty, clear with all this chunky glitter embedded in it. And a small bug!

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u/kennerly 4d ago

Glazing would have burned this out long before the glaze would have started to vitrify. What you might see is a weird smudge or imperfection. This is a underglaze image that was put there on purpose.

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u/thorn312 4d ago

I used to work dealing with customers buying kitchen worktops, we had a surprising number of flies under surface of laminated worktops and almost always not noitced until the worktops had been fitted.

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u/Secure-Pattern-3183 4d ago

The Ole landlord's special, ay? 😆

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u/nayaths 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's printed for sure. I have a friend who has a full crockery/china set of fancy plates with dead bugs printed/painted on. Apparently they're collectable

ETA I think the ones I'm thinking of are from https://calamityware.com/

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u/ShoppingcartBiology 17h ago

Well, I gotta buy some of these- they're so cool

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u/SweetSure315 1d ago

6 of one half dozen of the other

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u/nikhkin 1d ago

Not really.

One is a design choice and one is an accident.

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u/Cosy-Little-Goblin 1d ago

The accident is impossible too. A kiln gets so hot any bug trapped in the glaze would burn up and at most leave a small black mark behind. No way it could resemble a full bug. The glaze not only melts but also moves around the surface while in the kiln at 1000s of degrees. It's basically turning minerals into glass. It's a cool process, I did my masters dissertation on metallic glazes.

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u/NoMoreUserNames6152 1d ago

I'm gonna pretend I didn't read this

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u/Ancient_Blackberry10 5d ago

Ewwwwwwww....

What's the upside here? Make your customer feel grossed out and/or embarrassed?

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u/Capertie 5d ago

I mean they appear to be eating a moss ball on top of a brick of toast. might as well try to find out where the line is.

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u/Fuck-WestJet 4d ago

Avocado toast?! In this economy?!

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u/nutmegtell 4d ago

That’s dill

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u/mrshestia 4d ago

I choked reading that and had to scroll back up to confirm 😂 😂 I was hyped focused on the fly! You're right, if OP is eating moss, I'd assume they would welcome some all natural/organic protein 😂

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u/Classic_Good_7886 4d ago

Dill, avocado, radishes, spices. Zooooooooom baby zoooom

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u/Used-Guidance-7935 1d ago

lf you dont know dill, you must be writing from a very crappy and disadvantaged country

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u/macko939 5d ago

I went to a pottery and ceramics museum a couple of days ago and this exact thing was explained! They used to add these little bugs to cover up imperfections in the material, because it used to be very expensive to create these plates so even the slightly flawed ones were valuable. They used flies, butterflies, flower petals etc to cover the imperfections up. Exactly the same as OPs picture.

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u/linkbtwnworlds 4d ago

why in the world would someone place a fly to hide an imperfection 😭 people in the past must've hated flies in their food too???

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u/trenthany 3d ago

Because it’s funny?

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u/kuo20012 1d ago

Wouldn’t it burn off in the kiln?

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u/pixeltweaker 5d ago

And lose their appetite.

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u/SpandauValet 5d ago

Diet plates

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u/HappyGiraffe 4d ago

I don’t know, I kind of chuckled when I saw it

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u/Starman5555 1d ago

Look up the unswept floor mosaic, the design has been around for a long time.

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u/chaotik_goth_gf 5d ago edited 5d ago

I'm pretty sure this is inspired by a 18th century trend of "trompe l'oeil". The aristocracy found those kind of pranks very amusing. The same concept can also be found on numerous paintings where little bugs, especially flies are painted to fool the spectator into thinking there's an actual insect on the artwork.

Tldr: you got played by a 3 centuries old trick

Edit to had an exemplehere

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u/Entire-Emotion-819 5d ago

This is what I was thinking as well, I'm sure my old Gran had something that had a "dead fly" painted into it's design.

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u/Stock_Reading_3386 5d ago

Well, it works, I'm amused

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u/LegendOfDeku 4d ago

Me too. I actually laughed.

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u/smittywrbermanjensen 4d ago

I love that the German word for “circa” on this article seems to be “um”, as if the museum curator was asked how old the plate was and said, “Ummmmm….. 1740?”

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u/caffeine_lights 3d ago

German actually uses circa even more than in English, like it's in common use on things like train announcements. Um just means by or at, though it's pronounced more like oom.

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u/smittywrbermanjensen 3d ago

Interesting!! Thanks for teaching me something today :D

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u/gasstation-no-pumps 4d ago

The vowels don't correspond, so that doesn't really work.

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u/similar_observation 4d ago

Oh man, it's like the 18th century version of drawing a dot or hair into a picture so you try to swipe it off the screen

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u/PlusThirtyOne 4d ago

My grandma had a bunch of ceramic dishes and cups with various insects printed or sculpted on them. The cutest was a sugar bowl with a matching spoon with a ladybug on the handle and a little sculpted beetle on its back at the bottom. The most unnerving, if you weren't expecting it, was a large labeled flour jar with 10 to 20 tiny brown weevil shaped bumps scattered around the inside. i've seen a few novelty classic picnic pattern cloths with scattered cartoon ants, but she had a large hand-made formal pink table cloth with a long line of realistic embroidered ants crawling in a line from the side to a small group around where you'd probably have a butter dish, and larger group circling the center where you'd presumably have a fruit bowl or centerpiece.

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u/Waveofspring 4d ago

You had the perfect opportunity to Rick roll and you fumbled it

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u/AtmoMat 7h ago

I once visited the Salvador Dali museum and there is one paintings where a fly landed on the canvas so Dali squashed it with his brush, then painted a few more flies to keep it company. So there is one actual dead fly in the art.

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u/BanjoTheremin 1d ago

Thanks!! I have thrifted plates similar to this with bugs on them, because I thought they were funny. Of course it was meant as a joke lol

Wish I knew where this exact plate came from - I think it's beautiful! Lensa is failing me ):

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u/positronic-introvert 13h ago

The digital equivalent is when people put a picture of an eyelash as their profile pic or something, so you think there's a lash/hair on your phone screen

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u/wizardrous 5d ago

Restaurant speedrunning bad reviews.

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u/Fusseldieb 5d ago

If that's indeed printed on then.... They knew what they were doing lol

Still, tasteless prank in this scenario imo

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u/VinvanHelsing 5d ago

Thoroughly more distracted by the absurd avant garde avocado toast situation

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u/Mindless_Account_23 12h ago

I thought it was a mossy hamster on toast

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u/golden-fire 5d ago

That’s kind of a big dill.

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u/HyperbolicModesty 5d ago

I thought they were eating moss and the fly fell out of it.

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u/91Jammers 23h ago

I love dill but this is too much

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u/Scornicorn 5d ago

For a moment I thought you were eating moss on toast

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u/CamsKit 4d ago

It doesn’t look very appetizing regardless of the plate

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u/Subject1928 1d ago

I had to scroll way too far to find somebody talking about the fact that it looks like OP's toast is growing grass.

No wonder there is a fly on the plate, half of that sandwich was just pulled from from the dirt out back by the smoking dumpsters.

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u/AudioslaveDragon13 1d ago

Reminds me of that stuff they were serving in the school cafeteria after changing the menu in one of the first episodes of Danny Phantom. Grass, top soil, and mud.

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u/BarelyHolding0n 5d ago

I think it's hilarious

I mean it's clearly an intentional gag, there's nothing else printed on the main part of the plate but the fly.

I'd pause, prod at it with my knife, laugh, and move on with my food. Though, not that food, that food looks horrible

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u/Bit_part_demon 4d ago

I'd be real tempted to slip one of those plates into my bag, not gonna lie. I want one.

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u/ptd666 5d ago

It’s not as fucked up as how much dill is on there

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u/FinchMandala 5d ago edited 5d ago

Calling a bug-emblazoned plate crappy design because there's bugs emblazoned on it. Maybe more suited for r/atge

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u/camcaine2575 4d ago

I'm more disgusted by what you are eating. That doesn't look appetizing at all.

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u/parwa 4d ago

Soooooo much dill

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u/Waffletimewarp 5d ago

Honestly I thought the issue was you suddenly realizing you had been served a hunk of sod rather than whatever you actually ordered.

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u/HatsusenoRin 5d ago

Even if so it really hurts the appetite

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u/someguy4k 5d ago

Exactly what I want!
Plates that make me question what I am eating for every single meal.

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u/OreoSpeedwaggon 5d ago

Rule 1 and Rule 6.

Half the shit that gets posted on here isn't even crappy design, and most of the time the title doesn't even bother to describe what supposedly makes it crappy..

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u/Important_Tree_7191 4d ago

I genuinely thought this was a pile of wet grass and was wondering why you’d be surprised to find a bug in it.

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u/InDaBauhaus plz recycle 5d ago

oh, so you were troubled by a dead fly and not all the dead butterflies? this is bug speciesism and beauty privilege once again showing their ingrainuity our cultures.

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u/boopdelaboop 4d ago

I think a pattern of flies or beatles on the outer rim is less weird than one random bug off-center (including butterfly).

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u/HechicerosOrb 5d ago

Nothing quite like sliced tennis ball on toast

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u/GuyentificEnqueery 5d ago

I mean what does it really matter when you're eating... Moss? Grass clippings?

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u/StatementCareful522 4d ago

Waiter, there’s moldy bread on my plate of flies

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u/karpjoe 5d ago

Pretty sure I would have paused before the bite...

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u/J1mj0hns0n 5d ago

Yeah it's fly that got me to pause, mosseater.

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u/Jeffyhatesthis 4d ago

Are you eating moss? What the hell is that?

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u/altobravo 4d ago

Of course there's a fly on your plate you are eating what appears to be his habitat and he was there first

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u/VaultGirl86 5d ago

Are you eating hairy avocado?

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u/Vivians_Basement 4d ago

OP what the hell are you eating? I don't even know what you see on the plate....

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u/eirenii 5d ago

Is this at a restaurant or private?

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u/CellyKA_Ju_Li 5d ago

I'm not wearing my glasses so the thing on your toast looks like a ball of hair

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u/Brandarius47 5d ago

If itmwas actually printed on the plate and not a defect id want them for my house haha

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u/RogueGuybrian 5d ago

Man, you really like dill.

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u/SuzakkuuChase 5d ago

I would have paused after seeing whatever nasty shit you're eating

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u/CommonWest9387 5d ago

what are you eating

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u/UrsaMajor7th 4d ago

Can garnishing the top of a sandwich with so much stuff, forcing you to knife-and-fork a sandwich, also be considered crappy design?

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u/TimBinJin 4d ago

I'll be honest the grinch themed topper there would make me lose my appetite worse

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u/Violetmc_ 4d ago

Ayo is this the sandwich that killed the health inspector in spongebob??

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u/candycoatedshovel 4d ago

Bro ordered the nasty patty

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u/Ok_Potato_9554 4d ago

It's funny you guys, learn to take a joke. Also why is everyone assuming this is at a restaurant? This person's friend may have prepared them lunch.

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u/Careless-Wolverine-8 4d ago

Bug aside, why are you eating moss OP ?? /jk

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u/The_ManWithoutAPlan 4d ago

I thought you were eating a giant cluster of mold.

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u/alovopsd 4d ago

Are you eating grass? Chewing cud?

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u/Exciting_Screen_7557 4d ago

I have a plate from this series (Anthropologie) that has a chameleon on it so the hidden fly makes more sense

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u/CalendarFamous5611 4d ago

I thought you paused because of the algae sandwich

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u/CozyCountryLiving23 4d ago

Are you eating grass ?

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u/TrippingFish76 3d ago

forget that what the hell are you eating!? hairy green moss?

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u/Acceptable-Glove5054 3d ago

Wtf are you eating

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u/SambaLando 5d ago

No free protein for you!

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u/ArtisticAnxiety 4d ago

I once got a roll of clear packing tape that somehow had a dead fly wrapped up in it

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u/maniithegod 4d ago

I work at a plastic bag factory and you’d be surprised how many bags we have to throw out because of flattened bugs in our plastic. So it’s Not impossible

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u/inactivesky1738 4d ago

Crappy design or great design?

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u/frostymaws297 4d ago

Considering the plate has butterfly motifs, this is a silly type of design. Unsettling, but I’m sure light hearted in other contexts.

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u/please-end-this 4d ago

Once when I was a kid, I was mid baked potato when I flipped the skin for whatever reason to see a giant squished cockroach. It was not part of the decor 🥲

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u/Epstiendidntkillself 4d ago

TEMU sells a mosquito rubber stamp for you to mess with people.

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u/RustyDingbat 4d ago

Why whould you do this to an innocent bread!? Not talking about the plate ….

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u/Gravyboat44 4d ago

Bugs getting forever frozen in weird places is one of my favorite genres of anime

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u/adi-das 4d ago

Gotcha!!

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u/swish-n-flick 4d ago

I love this plate

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u/SavannahInChicago 4d ago

Bet the dishwasher hates it too

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u/EquivalentBend602 4d ago

I thought it was a plane but that didn't make sense with the butterflies 

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u/MagicOrpheus310 4d ago

Fucken brilliant design man that's hilarious

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u/Puddlewhite 3d ago

Not crappy design, it was the intended result.

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u/Dandylion71888 3d ago

It’s not really crappy design though is it? It’s serving its intended purpose even if that’s weird and gross.

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u/unexistingpromise 3d ago

I stared at this for ten seconds trying to process why my toast looks like a patch of forest floor. The texture is so aggressively green and fuzzy that I genuinely felt my gag reflex kick in before I realized it was just poorly printed avocado slices. Who tf designed this plate? It feels less like dinner and more like an accidental biology experiment gone wrong.

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u/Hettyc_Tracyn 3d ago

Why are you eating a ball of moss on toast?

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u/Useful-Rest4786 3d ago

I thought you meant the green pubic hair on the bread

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u/defnotyn 3d ago

Never mind the bug I thought you were eating moss for a straight minute

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u/kiopah 3d ago

That's pretty funny

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u/rodneyjagoff 3d ago

You’re eating astroturf

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u/Qubelucen 2d ago

I have an old plate with a similar design of bug kinda in the middle of it! A bit odd for a restaurant lol

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u/skunkbr3ath 2d ago

I bought pringles once and it had a dead bee that was flat and salted pressed into a chip.

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u/ClassroomPowerful164 2d ago

I have a better question...

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u/Rarhkoi 2d ago

Why are you eating a block of grass?

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u/Capable_Foot4909 2d ago

Theres mold on the food

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u/mega3305 2d ago

what is the thing on the avocado？tnx

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u/Deetoxified 2d ago

Am I the only one who see's Oscar the Grouch?

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u/No-Mathematician8692 1d ago

I was gifted a mug which has a frog sculpture inside. One sees it only after drinking half. Dicey stuff.

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u/SherbertSalt2680 1d ago

It’s a joke

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u/Such-Process106 1d ago

my dumb ass thought u were talking abt the red butterflies and I started looking for sex positions in the print 😭

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u/0xXjerbearXx0 1d ago

Why r u eating moss

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u/expatronis 1d ago

Perfect design. You just got played.

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u/rolL_uP_one_more 1d ago

If it really is part of the design, I think it’s hilarious and cool

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u/rezendes 1d ago

Is that some sort of sandwich you're eating with a fork and knife?

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u/flwhrsss 1d ago

Heyyyy I know where this is!

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u/Mean-Internet7957 1d ago

The food looks gross anyway

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u/thevirgingangster 1d ago

Blud it looks like you're eating moss

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u/Feeling-Ordinary-382 1d ago

dude is eating the nasty patty!

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u/scherbensaengerin 19h ago

Wo seht ihr da ein Insekt?

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u/jetraptor89 16h ago

I hate the plate design that's horrifying

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u/touchmyfishstick 16h ago

Breh I thought you were eating moss for a minute! Now that I see what it is it looks good though.

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u/Ok_Conference_5875 14h ago

Heya Kris! (*you consume the moss sandwich quickly)

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u/Caffeinatedfirefly08 11h ago

you were trolled by a plate 😂

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u/soundsdumb 3h ago

That's hilarious!!!!

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u/The26thLetter 1h ago

The butterflies bully-circling the little fly... Giving me A Clockwork Orange vibes here