How to make a chicken > salad
June 29, 2023 8:06 AM   Subscribe

Not a recipe question! I have this set of cutting boards. But I use the yellow one (the one with the chicken on it) for vegetables. I would like it to have a creative way to take a sharpie to it and turn that chicken picture into something veggie related. I know there is literally no reason I need to do this. I know that I could just draw a giant tomato over top of it and color it in. But! Is there a more creative way, with fewer lines, to make that chicken into a vegetable of some sort? Bonus points if you can actually show it as a drawing in some way.
posted by Mchelly to Media & Arts (14 answers total)
 
Except with drawing on a cutting board with a marker (will it flake off?), you could treat the chicken as a basket, with a carrot, celery, etc poking out of its back.
posted by GenjiandProust at 8:09 AM on June 29, 2023 [2 favorites]


Maybe browse through a copy of Jaques Pepin's Art of the Chicken: A Master Chef's Paintings, Stories, and Recipes of the Humble Bird for inspiration? Many of the chickens are made out of vegetables!
posted by carrioncomfort at 8:13 AM on June 29, 2023 [3 favorites]


Maybe it can be turned into lettuce? With the wing as a leaf? Some of those shapes are a bit leaflike. Obviously more effective/easier if all the same color but maybe it will work?
posted by matcha action at 9:08 AM on June 29, 2023 [3 favorites]


This is not helpful but in that orientation I keep seeing the chicken as a dolphin (chicken’s tail feathers are its nose, wing is a flipper)
posted by staggernation at 9:14 AM on June 29, 2023


make the tail/body into a horn of plenty, top of the chicken's head could be the greens of a carrot, mixed veg to cover the "chest" area of the chicken.
posted by Sweetchrysanthemum at 9:47 AM on June 29, 2023 [1 favorite]


There is really no way to do that which won’t look like crap.

It looks like the existing designs are some kind of inlay that's thoroughly integrated into the board. Trying to change or add to that would involve heating the board up to its melting point and would be more likely to render the board unusable than anything else.
posted by jamjam at 10:15 AM on June 29, 2023 [2 favorites]


Oriented the way it is, I see the body becoming an eggplant and the wing a sweet pepper, but I hate to say I agree with jamjam. Are you already using the one with the tomato on it for veggies too?
posted by kate4914 at 10:28 AM on June 29, 2023


Personally, I would just recast the chicken as my kitchen helper who supervises chopping vegetables. Or put a tomato hat on the chicken like it's dressing up like a tomato. (Or get a good vinyl sticker and just cover it up.)
posted by blnkfrnk at 10:28 AM on June 29, 2023 [1 favorite]


Put a speech bubble that says VEGGIES like the chicken is saying veggies.
posted by seanmpuckett at 11:12 AM on June 29, 2023 [8 favorites]


Best answer: It's not for veg it's for fruit. Pineapple and bananas.
posted by phunniemee at 12:11 PM on June 29, 2023 [17 favorites]


1. Draw a circle around the chicken.
2. Draw a line across the circle, through the chicken.
posted by Kabanos at 12:14 PM on June 29, 2023 [6 favorites]


That chicken is about 3/4 of the way to being an eggplant already. If you can yellow out the tail portion, and connect up what remains, you'll have your eggplant.
posted by zompist at 2:11 PM on June 29, 2023


Personally, I would not want to chop food on a cutting board that had sharpie on it.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 4:04 PM on June 29, 2023 [5 favorites]


Response by poster: Oh man, I thought permanent marker meant it could be cured to be food safe, but yeah, toxins are a creativity-killer. Otherwise the fruit solution was genius! Thanks for all the suggestions and playing along…
posted by Mchelly at 10:02 AM on July 5, 2023


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