Buddha Shaped Pears

Portugese. Try Google translate.

Somebody call PETA!!!

I keep trying to talk my dad into making square pumpkins. one day... one day...

Not even a spanish guy can read the original post.. that's because it's portuguese hehe

And Brazil's capital is Brasilia, not Rio de Janeiro :-P

Its not Spanish is portuguese.
They say that the molds are from japan

My Blog is written in Portuguese. :)
Thanks for the link.
Caio Novaes
Brogui.com

Ey. I speak spanish and would gladly translate it. Only it's in portuguese, which I don't speak.

I think this is the strangest "how to" i have ever posted here because, in the end, who's going to attempt to do this at home? Well then, just for kicks, if you have already heard about the pears in the shape of buddha or even the famous square watermelons of Japan, know that the process is simple, it's enough to place a mold around the fruits when they are budding, since fruit tends to take the shape of the mold as it is developing.
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I am afraid of what advertisers can do with this.

I want a pear shaped like Mario. And one shaped like Bowser.

I will make them battle.

The loser will be eaten.

And the winner will also be eaten.

It's Bonzai Kitten all over again ....

@Jake D.

you're my hero. seriously. well played. :P

I agree. Wonderful, Jake D. Just had a grin for the first three lines, then the end I burst out with an involuntary giggle when I got to the end.

The result of letting a floraphile loose in an arboretum.

Good thing they don't make Allah shaped pears.

I find it funny how it seems OK to eat Buddha yet if it were some other deity, I'm sure there would be some kind of uproar about it.

Babycakes , The Buddha is sort of pear shaped and thus sort of lends itself to the process. It's not a religious thing.

No, it's not a religious thing at all. I have to agree with Babycakes. If these were Allah pears, there'd be riots throughout the Middle East. If they were Jesus pears, there'd be reams of stern letters-to-the-editor.

I think Buddhists are way more easygoing about their icons than other religions.

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!!
They're gonna cut the peaches and eat 'em or worship 'em or let 'em rot??
Mad guys!!
Nice experiment though! We're gonna have new moldy ideas from now.. A peach shaped like a Mango or Banana or Wall-E :p

Anyone been on that boat ride at Epcot where they take you through their greenhouse? They've got all these vegetables that are grown in the air with Mickey Mouse ears - creepy.

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This makes sense because Brazil is home to the world's largest Japanese population outside of Japan itself.

the one with the red background looks more like Ralphie Wiggum than I imagine as Buddha.

Isn't it Chinese?
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3466251.html?menu=

This belongs on CuteOverload! :)

translated to portuguese it reads:

How to make pear-shaped Buddhas

I think this is the strangest "How to" I've posted, I mean, who's going to try and make this at home? Well then, for curiosity's sake, if you've already heard of Buddha shaped pears or even the famous square watermelons of Japan, you know that it's a simple process, placing the fruits in a mold while they are growing, then the fruit tends to take on the form of the mold.

I'm afraid of what marketing people will do with this...

i would love to grow stuff like this, but i can barely keep a fern alive. very cool

Sweet. They should make a money-shaped mold.

but you are not eating the buddha; you are eating a representation of the buddha.

canibalism would be just nasty!

that said, i'd grow these babies; are they selling them online somewhere?

Crazy, but very cool. I want to eat it!!!

-xxx- Mysa. (Holland)

Crazy, but cool. I want to eat it.

-xxx-Mysa