There are a whole bunch of problems with preparing a turkey. The amount of work involved is crazy, it takes a long time to cook, you have to make stuffing in conjunction, and it’s delicious. Ok, well that last one isn’t a problem really, unless you’re on a diet, I guess. But it’s Thanksgiving, you should be giving thanks for your freedom to be on a diet and you should do that by eating a whole bunch of turkey. If you still insist on being a spoilsport, you can just get an inflatable turkey from The Party Animal and salivate over some tender, seasoned plastic with a delicious air filling. Yum.

For most of us veteran coffee drinkers, having a morning cup is not unlike taking your vitamins or smoking crystal meth; there’s nothing particularly magical about the experience, you just need to get that stuff inside you. These cunicode 3D printed coffee cups aim to change that a little bit by providing a wealth of weird ways to drink your coffee. The cups are the product of an exercise in rapid production and each was designed, printed, and made available for purchase in one day. You can buy them here, if you’re into that. They’re a little expensive, but a good joke is priceless, maybe.

Pictures after the jump.

These honest cereal boxes were created by artist Ron English, whose art tends to deal with the mediums of advertising and brand imagery, and put on display in a grocery store in Venice, California. We’ve seen this kind of thing before, specifically with honest logos, but it’s more fun when iconic mascots are turned into knife-wielding psychos or obese “children charmers,” then placed in a real life grocery store. If you’re wondering, the Apple Cinnamon Cheerios are just some Apple Cinnamon Cheerios.

This monochromatic tableau is part of a new exhibition featuring the work of Ken and Julia Yonetani called Sense of Taste, currently on display at the GV Art gallery in London. Modeled after a traditional still life painting, this sculpture presents a decadent meal of cheese, fruit, wine, fresh fish, and lobster. However, it is made entirely out of salt.

At first blush, making a meal entirely out of salt is a clever inversion of the viewers expectations, or just a sure sign that Bender has been cooking again. However, the Yonetani’s work has a very specific message, as the three salts used in the work come from a region of Australia called the “food bowl.” Though it has traditionally supplied most of the country with fresh fruit and vegetables, agricultural irrigation systems are making water in the area increasingly salty. So salty, in fact, that 500,000 tons of the stuff must be removed annually from the region. In that light, the work is a direct challenge to the viewer to consider the impact their life has on the environment. The duo has also created coral reefs made of sugar, symbolizing the deadly impact of silt run off from the sugar cane industry on reef life.

While some might find art with so pointed a message a bit distasteful (pun?), it’s impossible to deny the incredible craftsmanship of these works. Read on after the break for some more choice images.

This is the ad that Volkswagen recently took out in an issue of Auto Trader, in which they encourage readers to “eat the road.” VW even listed the ingredients on the side, perhaps as a joke and perhaps as reassurance. It apparently contains glutinous rice flour, water, salt, propylene glycol, FD&C colour, and glycerine. Of course, claiming that something is edible can only lead to one thing.

See the results below: