18 Anthropomorphic Food Characters You May Reconsider Eating
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“You are what you eat,” as the old saying goes. Food can drastically impact your life and lifestyle. If you indulge in protein and lean meat, you’ll become a meat machine yourself. If you indulge in cake, you’ll likely be as soft and sweet. Pizza? You’ll be all over the place. But what if the thing you consume the most is popular culture?
There are several characters in the world of film, television, and video games that are people food or food people. Heroes, villains, anti-heroes, and just plain mascots have all been represented by some sort of confection, meal, entree, side dish, or processed snack. In many cases, they’re more entertaining to watch than to eat themselves, to be honest.
We here at Cracked have put together this list of some of the most notable edible characters to have ever hit your screen in a movie, TV show, video game, or ad.
Pickle Rick
![Anthropomorphic food Pickle Rick from Rick and Morty He's that thing nerds screamed about a few years ago, and still has a lasting influence in merchandise. Like it or be annoyed by it, you cannot deny Pickle Rick's impact. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/5/873465.jpg)
Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from 'Ghostbusters'
![Anthropomorphic food Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters This fluffy, sugary colossus may wreck New York City, but all we need is a chocolate kaiju and a graham kraken to make a mega s'more that could feed the whole state. STAY PO CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/4/873474.jpg)
Pizza the Hutt from 'Spaceballs'
![Anthropomorphic food Pizza the Hutt from Spaceballs Admit it. Part of you is disgusted by the goopy nature of a mob boss made of pizza. The other part wants to just dive into his guts to indulge the little piggy within. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/2/873472.jpg)
Meatwad from 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force'
![Anthropomorphic food Meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force Не may be the dumbest member of the force, but you can't help but root for the little guy, especially when he shapeshifts into a meat bridge, a middle finger, or Wayne Gretzky (which is actually Abraham Lincoln wielding a samurai sword). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/3/873463.jpg)
Twinkie the Kid
![Anthropomorphic food Twinkie the Kid from Hostess A creme-filled sponge cake sounds like an insult an old timey cowboy would label a coward, but instead we got a Hostess cake rustlin' and gabbin' about a food product that could outlive us all. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/6/873476.jpg)
Pizza Steve from 'Uncle Grandpa'
![Anthropomorabic food Pizza Steve from Uncle Grandpa Some Millennial drew a slice of pizza with sunglasses on as a kid, and got it into a Cartoon Network cartoon. Kudos to them for making a spiral notebook drawing's dream into reality! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/5/873475.jpg)
California Raisins
![Anthropomorphic food California Raisins These mascots for grapes released four albums, had a Billboard Top 100 hit, and were nominated for an Emmy. Not bad for clay raisins that ripped off Motown hits. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/3/873473.jpg)
The M&M's
![Anthropomorphic food The M&M's from Mars This gang of CGI candy-coated chocolate chums have been in ads ever since 1994. Some of you reading this never lived in a world without them. Think about that. m m m m CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/2/873462.jpg)
Milk & Cheese
![Anthropomorphic food Milk & Cheese from Milk & Cheese Dairy often goes bad, but usually doesn't get drunk on gin and cause obscene amounts of violence like these two. Remember, never buy dairy products with thick eyebrows. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/4/873464.jpg)
Mayor McCheese from McDonald's
![Anthropomorphic food Mayor McCheese MAYOR from McDonald's Given the precedent of house pets being elected as the head of several communities, electing a cheeseburger as mayor is just the next step in current local politics. Hell, better than most humans. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/5/9/873459.jpg)
Ice Cream Kitty from 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'
![Anthropomorphic food Ice Cream Kitty from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles A mutant cat made of ice cream is the dream companion of all depressed loners out there. Every studio apartment should have one living in the freezer. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/1/873461.jpg)
Gingerbread Man from 'Shrek'
![Anthropomorphic food Gingerbread Man from Shrek Say what you want, but this cookie is no snitch! Не won't talk even if you threaten to pluck his gumdrop buttons! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/6/873466.jpg)
Gudetama from Sanrio
![Anthropomorphic food Gudetama from Sanrio Is there a better mascot for the screw this, I'm done mentality of current life than an egg that just wants to nap all day? No. No, there isn't. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/0/873460.jpg)
The Food Fighters from Mattel
![Anthropomorphic food The Food Fighters from Mattel Growing up in the '80s and '90s had a lot of kids play with G.I. Joes during lunch and the Food Fighters is just the natural consumer-driven commercial result of that. You gotta admit that Burgerdier General is a helluva pun. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/1/873471.jpg)
Eggplant Wizard from Nintendo
![Anthropomorphic feld Eggplant Wizard from Nintendo Kid Icarus and Captain N: The Gamemaster never questioned why or how an eggplant gained sentience, has one eye, mastered magic, or what any of that has to do with Greek mythology, so we won't speculate here. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/9/873469.jpg)
Can of Vegetables from 'Wet Hot American Summer'
![Anthropomorphic food Can of Vegetables from Wet Hot American Summer Dozinsky's Quality MIXED VEGETABLES Therapeutic breakthroughs can come from the oddest places, even from a can of veggies with the same voice as Sterling Archer and Bob Belcher. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/7/0/873470.jpg)
Anton from 'The Amazing World of Gumball'
![Anthropomorphic food Anton from The Amazing World of Gumball All this little guy wants to do is pass the seventh grade without getting eaten by birds. Is that too much to ask? CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/8/873468.jpg)
Larry the Cucumber from 'VeggieTales'
![Anthropomorphic food Larry the Cucumber from VeggieTales Sermonizing aside, Larry is just a nice veggie that likes to sing silly songs. He's essentially the anti-Pickle Rick. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/6/7/873467.jpg)