If you’re anything like us, dear Pandas, then you’re very likely also thinking of food at this very moment. Full disclosure, some of us are busy daydreaming about pizza, donuts, and Friday barbeques when we should be writing about our gracious feline overlords and collecting cute dog photos. In fact, we’re so hungry, we’ve started seeing food everywhere we look… though we’re not the only ones!
Our gastronomic geniuses and illusion-lovers here at Bored Panda have cooked up for you this delicious list of photos of various things that look just like food. From soap that looks like chocolate to mushrooms that look like fried eggs (and make us yearn for a good old English breakfast so badly, it’s ridiculous).
Upvote the pics that you personally found to be the tastiest, and let us know which of these you’d love to take a bite out of. Once you’re done, check out our other recent articles about inedible things that look like food for desert right here, here, here, and here!
A small warning though: this list will likely leave you very hungry, so just keep in mind that you shouldn’t eat random things, no matter how tasty they appear. Stick to real food!
#1 This Rock Found In Indiana That Looks Like Fried Chicken
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#2 Frog That Looks Like Cheese On A Burger
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#3 Okay, Who Took A Bite Out Of The Forbidden Peanut Butter Brownie?
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Professor Kang Lee, from the University of Toronto, explained to Bored Panda that our imaginations have a very strong impact on our perception. Our imaginations come from our frontal cortex in our brain, meanwhile, our perception takes place first in the visual cortex, found in the occipital lobe in the back of our head.
One of the more common phenomena that people tend to come across in their daily lives is pareidolia, or rather, seeing faces where there aren’t any. Perhaps you’ve spotted a cloud that looks just like your loved one or you’re looking at the trees and the leaves make them look like a stranger’s staring right back at you.
#4 This Tree Looks Like Broccoli
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#5 One Is Chocolate, One Is For The Dishwasher
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#6 Hospital Staff Gave Me A Snack On The Bed Sheets, Turns Out It's The Sponge I Need To Use In The Shower Before Surgery
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"Pareidolia illustrates the interaction between the visual cortex and the frontal cortex of the human brain. It suggests that our brain is highly sensitive and expecting to encounter and process some special classes of objects in our environment because they are biological and socially important to our adaptions to the environment," professor Lee told Bored Panda during an earlier interview.
"For example, when you are walking in a dark street in the evening, your brain is on high alert to detect whether any threat will jump out any moment. In this case, you are more likely to have face or human pareidolia because it is important for you to err on the side of caution if you mistake a tree as a human being,” he said.
#7 This Kiwi Looks Weird Though
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#8 The Surprising Amount Of Bite Marks On These IKEA Display Apples
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#9 Forbidden Milk
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“However, for some people, their frontal cortex’s expectation for certain objects (e.g., faces) become so high that they see faces in many situations where no faces exist."
He continued: “Even in this kind of situation, it is normal. There is nothing wrong with these individuals," he stressed. "Pareidolia is different from paranoia or delusion or abnormal vision of individuals with psychosis. In fact, a recent study shows that those people with pareidolia tend to be more creative. Also, people who are religious may be able to see religious icons in nonface objects as well."
#10 I Found A Mushroom That Looks Like A Fried Egg
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#11 Landscaping Stone I Found That Looks Exactly Like A Hunk Of Crab Leg Meat
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#12 This Coaster
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Professor Lee reiterated that our imaginations greatly affect our perceptions. “What we see are not things over there in the world but actually the co-creation of what is out there physically and what is in our mind mentally through our expectations and imaginations,” he said.
"Pareidolia is a broader phenomenon as it extends to touch and sound and other sensory channels. For example, you sometimes sense your phone vibrating when it is not, it is a tactile form of pareidolia. When you hear voices in a noisy environment, it is an auditory form of pareidolia."
#13 Someone Left Some Mashed Potatoes In The Car
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#14 Forbidden Mango
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#15 Forbidden Salami
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#16 Forbidden Pringles
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#17 Forbidden Ham
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#18 Forbidden Rice Noodle (The Inside Of My Inflatable Air Mattress)
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#19 Forbidden Fried Chicken
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#20 Forbidden Pasta (Rattle Snake Rattler)
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#21 Forbidden Snap Peas (Succulents)
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#22 Forbidden Croissant (Sofa)
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#23 Forbidden Loaf Of Bread
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#24 This Printer At Work Uses Small Colored Balls For Ink, They Look Like Forbidden M&M's
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#25 Forbidden Ground Beef
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#26 Forbidden Lettuce (Copper(II) Chloride Stained Paper Towel)
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#27 Only-Kinda-Forbidden Pomegranate (It’s Crab's Eggs)
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#28 Forbidden Mushroom Soup (Slugs Attracted With A Bowl Of Beer Overnight)
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#29 Forbidden Cookie Dough. Who Thought This Was A Good Idea?
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#30 Forbidden Strawberry Smoothie (Bone Marrow)
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#31 Forbidden Chocolate Frog
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#32 Forbidden English Muffin
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#33 Forbidden Cookie Dough Ice Cream
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#34 Scent Beads Looking Like A Snack
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#35 Forbidden Jam
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#36 Forbidden Street Apple Juice
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#37 This KitKat Bench
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#38 Mmm, Forbidden Peanut Butter
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#39 This One Rock In The Entryway Of A House
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#40 Forbidden Guacamole
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#41 Would You Be Interested In A Cup Of Latte?
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#42 Forbidden Seedless Strawberry Jelly (Violin Rosin)
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#43 Forbidden Ice Cream Sandwich
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#44 Forbidden Pez
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#45 Forbidden Potato Chips
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#46 Forbidden Rare Steak
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#47 Forbidden Grapes (3D Print That Went Horribly Wrong)
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#48 Forbidden Cinnamon Sugar Donut Hole
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#49 Forbidden Brownie
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#50 Went To Make A Margarita Today And The Items On The Stove Made Me Do A Double Take
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#51 They Repurposed Honey Bottles
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#52 My Roommate Cleaned Some Old Pool Balls And They Came Out Looking Like Jawbreakers
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#53 Forbidden Ciabatta
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#54 Forbidden Banana
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#55 How My Beer Matches This Floor Cleaner
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#56 Forbidden Lime Candy (A Rod Of Uranium Glass)
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#57 A Hummingbird Which Looks Like A Jalapeño
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#58 Forbidden Oreos (Adhesive Furniture Pads)
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#59 Forbidden Orange Juice
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#60 Forbidden Egg
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#61 Mouse Mat Made With A Delicious Slice Of Bread
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#62 Forbidden Rice Krispies
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#63 Forbidden Salami
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#64 Forbidden Cookie Crisps
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#65 Forbidden Meatballs
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#66 Or Delicious Grapes?
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#67 Forbidden Poppy Seeds
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#68 Forbidden Gummy Worm
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#69 Forbidden Ketchup
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#70 Forbidden Whipped Cream
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#71 Forbidden Fried Chicken
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#72 Forbidden Meringue
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#73 Forbidden Fruit Juices (Embalming Fluids)
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#74 My Plant Looks Like A Leaf
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#75 Forbidden Bread Buns
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#76 I Found A Candle That Looks Like A Bowl Of Cereal
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#77 This Rock My Son Found On Our Hike Looks Like A Potato
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#78 Questioning Why Someone Would Try To Sell These Cheetos At A Garage Sale
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#79 Forbidden Caramels Keep Tempting Me
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#80 Forbidden Bacon
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#81 Didn't Realise It Was Forbidden Mints Until It Was In My Mouth
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#82 Broccoli Birb
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#83 Forbidden Taters
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#84 Forbidden Dessert Slices
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#85 Forbidden Scrambled Eggs
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#86 Forbidden Steak
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#87 Forbidden Health Drink
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#88 Forbidden Sponge Cake
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#89 Forget Rock Cakes, Try This Crunchy Rock Sandwich I Found On The Beach Earlier
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#90 Laundry Candies (Aka Gain Scent Boosters)
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#91 Forbidden Salmon (Banded Carnelian)
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#92 Forbidden Roadside Cheesecake
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#93 I’ll Take One Pulled Pork Sandwich
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#94 Realgar (An Arsenic Sulfide Mineral) That Burns Bright Blue And Releases Toxic Fumes But Also Forbidden Candy
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#95 Milwaukee-Style Tic-Tacs. They Taste Horrible
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#96 Marshmallow Ball Pit
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#97 Forbidden Roast Beef Is Cooked To Perfection
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#98 Forbidden Spice Selection
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#99 Forbidden Sushi Rolls
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#100 Forbidden Chicken (Apricot Agate Stone)
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#101 Forbidden Muffin
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#102 Forbidden Mints - Wulfenite With Mottramite From Ojuela Mine, Mexico
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#103 Forbidden Grapes
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#104 Forbidden Cheeseburger
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#105 A Hedgehog Without Quills Looks Like A Potato
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#106 This Japanese Food Truck Made Their Propane Tank Look Like A Big Bottle Of Sriracha
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#107 Forbidden Hamburger Mince
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#108 I Was Moments Away From Trying This ‘Yoghurt’ And Have A Smooth Organic Diarrhea In The Morning
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#109 Found Some Forbidden Grapes Growing In The Pet Department At Walmart
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#110 Forbidden Pork Slices
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#111 Forbidden Gummy Lolly
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#112 Forbidden Chocolate
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#113 Forbidden Oreo Cake (Dry Cell Lead Acid Battery)
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#114 Forbidden Garlic Bread (Citrine Gemstone)
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#115 It Doesn’t Get More “Forbidden” Than This
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#116 Forbidden Cola Gummies
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#117 Forbidden Banana, Freshly Picked
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#118 Forbidden Tiny Carrots
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#119 This Table Looks Like A Piece Of Meat
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#120 Forbidden Gummys
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#121 Forbidden Gecko Gummy
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