I AM SO UPSET BECAUSE I FOUND THIS BEAUTIFUL TREASURE AND IT’S 80 DOLLARS AND I CAN’T HAVE IT AND I WILL NEVER SEE IT AGAIN
LOOK
LOOK AT THEIR PASTA FACES
FUCK
FUCK
FUCK
@sailormoonsub can we please talk about Queen Beryl’s facial expression on this can?
We can talk about this. All of this. This is honestly a feat of marketing that can only be described as magical, if you think about it. Someone said to someone else, “You know what would make this North American dub of a magical girl anime more accessible to our primary demographic? Spaghetti-O’s.” So someone reached out to Heinz Co. who for reasons unknown to this day agreed that this bargain would be mutually beneficial to all parties involved. Someone had to design pasta interpretations of the popular characters, and someone else has to build the extrusion machine (perhaps it still exists somewhere out there). It was someone’s job to keep dough pumping at a consistent rate through the mass-production assembly line so that no single iteration of Sailor Jupiter’s face looked any more distorted than any other. Someone had to put an equal number of these abstract symbols into each can; someone had to stack the cans at the grocery store; someone had to exchange governmentally regulated currency for the cans. (It’s amazing what human life will go through for different configurations of the same atoms.) I consider myself lucky to be on the earth at the same time as this can.Â
I guarantee that I ate many of these spaghettios as I insisted my mom to grab them whenever they were on sale, which was often. I used to set aside the Lunas for last because they were my favourite shape. I’d feel guilty eating each and every distorted kitty.
I love that this discovery has brought out all these stories. I never saw these before a week ago (according to the seller they were only produced in Canada, where I am not) and I will treasure it all the more.
