…but I swear to you, I just spent a half an hour laughing my ass off. Were it not for shoddy bug testing (some tasts literally cannot be done) it would have been even better than that classic of the late 1990’s, “Frog In a Blender.”
No… balls…
Ah, memories. But anyway, this one is going right up there with Elf Bowling. I know, I’m sick.
Warning: If you are already a vegetarian, this is just going to upset you. If you were considering becoming a vegetarian, this is going to make you ill. If you are an unrepentant carnivore, click away.
If you get offended, um, I did warn you.
Be sure to complete the tofu level and be rewarded with Mama’s best demonic smile.
DJ Larkin said,
November 19, 2008 at 10:17 pm
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/25DHDFDXv2w/cooking-mama-responds-to-peta
/signed, already a Vegetarian
sanyaweathers said,
November 19, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I love you, DJ
Frank said,
November 19, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Creepily happy characters give some people the willies, kind of like how some kids get traumatized and later are irrationally afraid of clowns. Mama is one of these characters, but twisting things into their own agenda is pretty much PETA’s MO.
It used to be that people handed out pamphlets and protested to people who made their best effort not to make eye contact with them in front of the supermarket. Oh, how the times have changed with the Internets.
Brad said,
November 19, 2008 at 11:03 pm
This post, and the response from Majestic, are great. I’ve seen the PETA videos and in comparison the game just comes across as the sort of school lunchroom horror stories that get passed around to make the other kids squirm. And then they top it off with tofurkey. >:-[ Tofurkey (or any other attempt at making things which aren’t meat taste and looke like meat) is completely disgusting and an abomination against everything right in cooking.
I just want to see a parody of the parody which would show Mama bite the head off of the turkey at the end and then end with a grin (plus a few feathers sticking out of her mouth).
–Brad
Proud member of “Vegetarians annoyed by PETA”
PETA Mama vs. the Evil Turkey Murderers said,
November 20, 2008 at 12:40 am
[...] over at Eating Bees has linked over to the People’s Ethical Treatment of Animals’ annual attempt to dissuade us from enjoying that … this Thanksgiving. This time around, they use the perpetually happy Cooking Mama character as a [...]
Calarius said,
November 20, 2008 at 2:48 am
Mmm, turkey.
Steve said,
November 20, 2008 at 4:28 am
Not going to lie: That just made me hungry…and not for tof-ugh!
Krinsath said,
November 20, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Things like this is why PETA should be classified as a terrorist organization. Isn’t that what they’re trying to do? Scare and disgust people into doing what they want? Obama, I know you promised to trim down Gitmo…but, can we send PETA there?
TPRJones said,
November 20, 2008 at 4:45 pm
It’s interesting that these sorts of things form PETA doesn’t convert anyone. The only people bothered by it have already drunk their kool-aid, the rest of us carnivors just find it humorous and/or delicious.
Tio said,
November 20, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Sure am glad my company’s serving Turkey for lunch today, cause I’m hungry after that.
sanyaweathers said,
November 20, 2008 at 4:55 pm
TPRJ: It’s a classic case of appealing to the base. They aren’t trying to convert anyone. They’re energizing their own members at a time of year where most people are very… conspicuously… eating a lot of animal flesh. It’s also the time of year where Great Aunt Hattie leans over and yells “Are you still not eating meat?! You’re going to die of the rickets, see if you don’t!”
Krinsath: No, no, no. These groups thrive on being martyrs. Far better to snicker than to threaten. Threats just give them power.
Besides, underneath the drama are some good recipes, I’m going to try their enchiladas.
pharniel said,
November 20, 2008 at 7:51 pm
wow. that’s just….seriously. coudln’t they get a convert who’s actually cooked to help with that?
stuffing is evil. lord alton hath decreed it so.
4 srs.
i also love it when my allergic to soy, egg, chocolate, dairy, sulfates and a few other things mother gets a lecture about how she hates the world when she eats meat and if she’d just learn to man up and eat some soy and, err, soy she’d be just fine…I mean she’s been denied cake, godiva and bacon people, stop trying to ‘help’.
let a woman have her prime rib!
Micah S. said,
November 20, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Top of the food chain represent!
Ashendarei said,
November 21, 2008 at 3:15 pm
man it’s things like this that truely make me hate PETA and all it stands for.
I hereby vow to eat twice as much meat, preferably freshly slaughtered, just to make up for some of these PETA arseholes.
this was one of the FIRST things that made me aware of their presence as more then “just another whiny group”
http://www.furisdead.com/feat-momfur.asp
Elovia said,
November 21, 2008 at 5:02 pm
P.E.T.A. … People Eating Tasty Animals
What’s so wrong with that?
Amethyst said,
November 21, 2008 at 5:18 pm
OMG that made my day Sanya =) But it now has me even hungrier for my turkey in some sick twisted way. I could never understand tofu vs turkey, turkey tastes SOOO good =)
TPRJones said,
November 21, 2008 at 7:48 pm
“stuffing is evil. lord alton hath decreed it so”
AMEN!
Kinada said,
November 21, 2008 at 10:42 pm
“stuffing is evil. lord alton hath decreed it so.”
Haha, that’s the first thing that I thought of when I got to that part of the game.
Merlyn said,
November 22, 2008 at 5:31 am
I just love how the vegan parts of the game are noticeably easier than the carnivore…
sneaky….
And Lord Alton went back on that commandment at some point. Stuffing is no longer evil.
Kinada said,
November 23, 2008 at 1:20 pm
True and untrue at the same time. He just clarified it.
“Stuffing a Turkey is evil” and of course by association anything else that would require you to over or under cook part of the dish so that the other one comes out correctly or even just safe to eat.
Now a roulade on the other hand…
Tripp said,
November 24, 2008 at 1:45 am
My daughter asked me yesterday if we could kill a wild turkey together this year. My game warden grandfather would have been proud.
When I pressed her to explain why she wanted to go hunting, she went on to explain to me that the turkey’s sacrifice and our acknowledgment of it is what Thanksgiving is about.
She’s 7…and already has more brains than the fruit-cakes involved with PETA.
Michael said,
November 25, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Me, I’m somewhat in the middle, I’m fine with killing an animal or plant so that I can eat, but I’d really prefer to have the killing done in a quick and nearly painless way. Unfortunately, the conveniently available options are either Big-Brand Jenny-O turkey from the local mega-mart, or the extra-dirty-hippy, free-range, hormone-free, we-hate-for-profit-corporations version that’s 8 times as expensive. Neither is terribly attractive to me.
It’s a goddamn bird. It can’t tell that it’s free-range. It doesn’t need an enriching life. But I’d rather not buy one that’s been painfully killed for the sake of efficiency.
I swear there’s a middle-ground here. I just wish more people would seek it out.
FNORD said,
November 26, 2008 at 3:59 am
That totally failed at turning me off to meat. Man, if only cooking a turkey were actually that quick and easy…
Mordur said,
November 27, 2008 at 12:30 am
The eggs, they bleed!
That just seriously made me want to make a thanksgiving turkey, right now. Om nom nom!
Iakimo said,
December 1, 2008 at 7:02 pm
You may be proud of me for this: I did NOT eat turkey for Thanksgiving.
I had prime rib.