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Mankind Keeps Reaching Higher: Laser-Etched Lunchmeat

It might not be the stunning achievement of brilliant scientific engineering that is the cheeseburger in a can, but the indomitable spirit of man means we'll never stop trying to top it. The latest attempt: Laser-etched lunchmeats. Classier than savagely severing dead animal flesh into pieces with a laser, Mleak's laser-etched art brings refined aesthetics to the table of processed meatstuffs. Okay, searing a pig onto a block of bologna is actually pretty tasteless, even if it is partially composed of chicken meat. [MAKE]

9:18 AM on Tue Feb 5 2008
By matt buchanan
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strider_mt2k at 09:25 AM on 02/05/08
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What's cool there is that the product made from exactly the parts that are visible in the photo.

Truth in advertising at last!
Darrone at 09:27 AM on 02/05/08
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Just in time for Valentines day!
Curves at 09:31 AM on 02/05/08
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@strider_mt2k: If it was really truth in advertising I think they would etch pig tails and chicken beaks in it.
ANoel at 09:42 AM on 02/05/08
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This is definitely a step up from when I was a public school kid so bored at lunch I'd peel the bologna away from the ketchuped white bread and carefully fold and chew out pumpkin and other wierd faces or if there were girls I wanted to really impress, genitalia.
SchruteBuck at 09:44 AM on 02/05/08
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Man they could etch David Hasselhoff's face right onto some ham. Who wouldn't buy that?
strider_mt2k at 09:45 AM on 02/05/08
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@Curves: I didn't do it well, but that was what I was trying to say.
Out2gtcha at 09:50 AM on 02/05/08
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@Curves:
I believe there is a pig tail and chicken beak in that laser etched photo....
Along with the rest of those 2 animals.
birdgirl39 at 10:11 AM on 02/05/08
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They forgot to put a rat on there as well. Everyone knows that processed meat products contain a certain amount of rat droppings and hair. Gak!
workingonyourinvoice at 10:50 AM on 02/05/08
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And any other various living/recently living animals/severed limbs that might find its way into the bologna.
@ANoel: I always bring a piece of bologna with me to clubs to bite into genital shapes and it gets me laid about twice a week.
mthrndr at 10:57 AM on 02/05/08
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you forgot to add "frickin" to the title of this post.
uberfu at 11:00 AM on 02/05/08
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At least this way we can "see" what the Bologna we're eating is actually made of_
ANoel at 11:01 AM on 02/05/08
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@WorkingOnYourInvoice:
"@ANoel: I always bring a piece of bologna with me to clubs to bite into genital shapes and it gets me laid about twice a week".

Well, done son! Better than me!
I didn't get laid until I was 13.
matt buchanan at 11:14 AM on 02/05/08
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@mthrndr: I made it up to you a few posts up.
bramachari at 11:31 AM on 02/05/08
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the greatest thing since sliced meat; I love this! Hide that bologna! HIDE IT!!
onefoot at 11:41 AM on 02/05/08
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ah innovation thy name is B O L O G N A!!!
Kaiser-Machead at 11:52 AM on 02/05/08
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When soylent green is released, I'd like to see this implemented on those as well.
ideaman2020 at 12:02 PM on 02/05/08
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@Darrone: It's great for wedding invitations, too!

[Oh, the subtle subtext!]
92BuickLeSabre at 12:23 PM on 02/05/08
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"My bologna has a first name...

...and it's written right there on the meat. See it. Crazy right? I mean, they just slapped it on there like a name tag. Freakin' cool!"
2playedout at 12:50 PM on 02/05/08
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@schrutebuck:
Another 80's reference joke..."groans"

They could etch _______ on it and people would buy it.

Fill in,
Chuck Norris
Alf
Kid Video
Mr. T

Family guy just killed random 80's humor for me.
Rememeber the time when I Auditioned to be one of the Color Kids for Rainbow Brite?
humperdinck at 02:19 PM on 02/05/08
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Bad Idea Jeans.
SchruteBuck at 02:38 PM on 02/05/08
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@2playedout: I was serious. Man I'm old.
Atsumi at 04:58 PM on 02/05/08
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I'm digging the picture of the pig and chicken on that fine piece of meat.
Charles Ales at 08:05 PM on 02/05/08
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Its about time
whiskey at 08:44 PM on 02/05/08
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Prices for {Insert name of religious figure here} on Bologna on eBay just went down!
Out2gtcha at 04:16 PM on 02/06/08
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@Kaiser-Machead:
You forgot your side of Fema-slim.