December 24th, 2007
#405 - Pica
Sometimes paint can look delicious. There were many times back in art school during an oil painting class where I would look down at my palette and have the urge to put the brush in my mouth. We recently painted our bedroom and the paint coming out of the bucket was like a very tempting raspberry shake. We wound up going out to get some shakes that afternoon. Now our dining room is painted a very appetizing eggnog.
December 24th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I dunno. I’ve always found the smell of paint greatly overpowered and quelched any urge to eat paint.
December 24th, 2007 at 12:24 am
Most of the paint i came across have such a stong smell that i REALLY do not wish to be even near it…
Hopes biff likes painted cookies =D
December 24th, 2007 at 1:07 am
I guess if Biff is only concerned with the decorating of the cookie…
That doesn’t look like the most effective tool though.
December 24th, 2007 at 1:21 am
>>;; I must be one of those few people who likes both the look and smell of paint.. I recently helped my parents paint their room a rather delicious looking color (mint, like the color mint icecream comes in). If I didn’t know from accidental experience (I paint on canvas, once I forgot which side of the brush I was holding and stuck the end with paint into my mouth by mistake) what paint tastes like, I might have been tempted enough to taste a bit.. Maybe..
December 24th, 2007 at 1:34 am
Great title! Very obscure…
And I’m going to ruin that! Heeheheheheh!
Pica: An abnormal condition characterized by the eating of strange and non-nutritious things. Like paint. Or cardboard. Or carboard cookies frosted with paint.
Pica is also a small rabbit-like rodent.
Pica is also a unit of scale, used in Postscript, originally from the ink-n-paper printing world. Not much used anymore.
Pica is also the Latin genus name of the Magpie family of birds.
December 24th, 2007 at 1:48 am
I don’t much like frosted cookies anyway.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:26 am
This reminds me of the fake food enterprises in Japan, here in the U.S., and otherwise abroad.
If I saw a cookie made that had paint icing, and it was an appetizing paint job, then I would definetly think about buying a non paint cookie.
(first post here by me; love the comic, have since I found it on an ad on SMBC-Comics. Keep up the good work man.)
December 24th, 2007 at 2:43 am
I have a Pepto-Bismol room in my house. I swear it’s the exact same shade of pink.
December 24th, 2007 at 8:52 am
thats disturbing, but, none the less, i gotta say though, thats just as bad a huffing paint i think. this could possibly explain somethings thoough…
December 24th, 2007 at 10:42 am
My parents hate the color that I picked out for my bedroom. It’s a plutonium green, and when my bedroom light is the only light on in the house, green shines through the hall.
December 24th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Ah, yes, small typo there, Chris! I believe the word you were looking for was “our” not “out”
I hate fake fruit and fake food for that reason. I want to eat it and then it’s plastic…I always tried to give my beanie babies real food as a kid…I would put something (like an apple) in front of them, then leave and come back later to see if they had eaten it…
I really liked the movie “toy story”
December 24th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
*fixed*
December 24th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
in my water color class i had this color… cant remember the name at the moment ^_^;; but it smelled like fruit loops o_O thankfully i didnt eat the yummy smelling paint
December 24th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Actually, the mouse is Pika, but there is a bird who is Pica, MaskedMan.
Anyway, remind me never to eat one of Biff’s cookies.
December 25th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
It really IS tempting to eat the acrylic paint we use in art… Though I did do it by accident once. I have a huge load of brushes, and i dipped the end of the one i was using in paint so I’d remember which one it was. And I have a habit of chewing the pen or pencil or paintbrush I’m working with, and I started chewing on it before it dried. It actually didn’t taste too bad….
December 25th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
It was an accident by the way… I’m not THAT weird.
December 25th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
When I was in school I always had the complete opposite reaction to paint…it was one of the most repulsive things I knew! Especially the black paint which smelled like someone died in it and would mold in our pots within a week… With the teacher we had, I wouldn’t be too surprised to find out that somebody had died in the black paint vat!
December 25th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Actually, Micah, both spellings are current for the rodent.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
hmm… always found the smell of paint strangely enjoyable
December 29th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Pica is a normal function. Similar to a cry for help, it is usually when people (like pregnant women and those on extreme diets) eat things that are classified as inedible.
I never had it, but I knew of people who did. I know of a guy who eats parts of a Cessna plane!
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:10 pm
NO………he’s really going to-?
January 17th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Man, I thought I was the only art school student who got the urge to do that! Recently, I was painting a portrait with a violin for a project, and I had been up all night, and the violin-color on my palette looked like really good chocolate… I decided that was probably the sign that I needed to stop and go get breakfast.
January 20th, 2008 at 1:58 am
When I saw this, all I could think of was this little cupcake store we have in Vancouver, BC. (I don’t know if it exists anywhere else) It’s called Cupcakes, but they all look so beautiful and FAKE. Actually. They look like they came from my five-year-old cousins plastic tea set. But they’re SO good. Even if the aesthetic is a bit off-putting.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
i thought i was the only one who felt like that O.O
April 11th, 2008 at 12:52 am
o.0 I’ve never felt like eating paint at all. It envokes emotion perhaps and thouhts of locations that match the color… but never cravings or what have you.
November 9th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I think that’s what the Wal-mart in our town does. The icing on the cakes is the consistency (and close to the flavor of) old nasty bacon grease that’s been left in the pan for days too long and someone decided to just add some sugar to it. Really nasty…