Always with a keen eye to the ground in search of the next Great Big Thing™, WFMU’s Beware the Blog has tracked down quite the gastroddity - Jan Svankmajer’s Food Trilogy, a three part series done in Jan’s trademark live / claymation stopmotion animation. Absurdity ensues:

Part One, Breakfast: A tale of food and automatons in which Mr. Babicky, Mr. Cecil and Mr. Albert take turns eating from, and providing the services of a food dispensing machine not unlike the kind that used to be found throughout the US at Horn and Hardart’s Automats.

Lunch_2 Part Two, Lunch: The best of the three parts, in which an inattentive waiter forces two diners to partake in lunch without food. They eat everything on their table - the flowers, the tablecloth, their plates, their clothes, and in a nod to Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, their shoes. But it doesn’t stop there.

Dinner Part Three, Dinner: The cannibalism continues at a higher end establishment, but unlike at lunch, the diners now have all the necessary garnishes and sauces to flavor their own body parts.

Yummy.