Potato Commits Ritual Suicide in Japanese Cartoon

From the mixed-up files of anime program Dai Mahou Touge comes this minute of refined oddity, in which a potato encourages his vegetable brethren to gamely serve themselves up to humans in stew form by skinning himself with a potato peeler and jumping into a pot of boiling hot broth. Fighting Foodons, this is not.

(via Ectoplasmosis, Neatogeek)


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