Food Behaving Badly-Part 1

This looks like a pretty standard recipe booklet from Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. They sprung for the full color covers, but the inside is full of these odd little 2-color illustrations.

You get a sense of the design aesthetic with the tiny portraits of cute food items. But don't be fooled by their innocent looks. Once you venture inside, you will be subjected to their naughty deeds.

Baked goods seem to be the instigators in a lot of these scenarios. Take the poor cake and the posse of rambunctious cupcakes in her care. She appears rather distressed while these young hellions are running amok. They have a strange game of leap frog going on, which, when you think about it would be pretty messy.


















I'm not sure what's going on in the next illustration. Three somewhat phallic-looking baked goods are pointing at a smiling muffin (I think). The tall ones seem to have a look of disgust, as if something smells bad. The little muffin blob looks pretty satisfied with himself.

Who cut the cheese?