What could be scarier than ground animal lips and eyelids in a tube? Ground animal lips and eyelids in a tube with a grinning clown face!

I want to eat clown face soo bad right now! All it needs is a little maraschino cherry nose.

That would be 1,000% more awesome if it were a pig face rather than a clown.

I love that this was linked in from vegan.com.

Clown Meat.
It Tastes Funny.

http://picasaweb.google.com/joetierney/Images7/photo#5141773175669165378

AWESOME.

Cold meat counters in British supermarkets always have something vaguely like that, "teddy bears" seem to be in most places.

And then you cover it in two slices of bread - to hide the horror.

There's bear sausage as well, and then there's the sausage for every kid's fad. Like this one:

http://www.gezemel.nl/wordpress/images/BobdeBouwerworst_AE44/DSC001592.jpg

I'd actually like to see a video of the machine that makes that stuff.

Tastes much better than evil clown meat.

I'm sorry, I don't eat anything with a face-- that's happy. I like my meat-faces to be frozen in an expressin of pure horror. Kids must love clown faces sandwiches.

@Rob: They are fairly easy to make.

All tube-meats (Frankfurters, hot-dogs, bologna, 'wursts) are basically pureed down to a almost-liquid state. Then they are injected into a tube/casing which may or may not be removed at the factory before shipping to retail outlets.

Normally they are extruded through a single die--a circle, square, whatever--and then packaged. However, when you want a design...

Simply color some parts of the meat darker pink/red with food coloring. Then, in a process that is not unlike the stripes in toothpaste, simply allow the colored parts to be injected in the proper places inside the meat that is travelling out of the machine via a mold that looks like the outline of the picture.

Extrusion. Is there anything it can't do?

The bears http://www.reinert.de/english/marken/baerchen/baerchenwurst

Okay, now I want to see a slice of this pan fried.

I think it's just a happy face, not a "happy horror" face.

You are reading way too much into a piece of baloney.

as far as i'm concerned that's all clowns are good for. could it be delicious? possibly with some pickle relish and a spot of yellow mustard on some good white bread. stupid clown call me fat. ha, i'll feast in yer slurried processed corpse. why can't the frozen ice cream treat industry that example of this precision work?

They had something similar to this in Ireland. They called it "Billy Roll". I was under the impression that it was similar to bologna, though I never tried it.

If I remember correctly, this type of meat was actually called 'Gesichtswurst' here in Austria, which yummily translates to 'face meat'.

Hmm.. never came across Billy Roll, but in Holland I ate this stuff when times were bad. It was always the cheapest thing in the shop, so a few slices of 'clown face' and a loaf of turkish bread kept us alive when the chips were down..

Never again! (until the bad times are back, I suppose)

You can get this (or similiar) in nearly every German supermarket. Where it's called "Kinderwurst", which I would loosely translate into "Kids sausage".
I'm so used to it I didn't consider it weird (much), but from the outside I agree, it's pretty strange.
Why do you want your sandwich to stare at you?
Has this something to do with Douglas Adams' pig that wants to be eaten?

Oh, I want a Jesus baloney!! The Meat of Turin!!!

With the Cheeses of Nazareth!!!

This might be an approximation of what you get when you slice it diagonally. http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/munch_scream.jpg

#21: Where it's called "Kinderwurst", which I would loosely translate into "Kids sausage".

Please, please, please tell me there was supposed to be an apostrophe after "Kids" in that sentence.

Where's the Olives in the eye? That and I need some now!

#18, mum used to buy that for my sister and me. That two-year old pixie ADORED it. When I recall the taste, I don't know why I ever agreed to have that in my sandwich. It did look good on a bun, though.

I always dug the eyes out, first, then the mouth, and played Hannibal Lecter with the remains. Om nom nom nom.

#25: Not necessarily, “Kinderwurst” could be both kid's sausage and kid(s) sausage (from a purely linguistic view, that is).

Ah, the ambiguity of the German language...

I just don't dig on swine...

This is actually a very normal sight for German meat eaters. They've funny-faced sausage meats for decades!

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Maybe that's what has turned me vegetarian?!

Can't eat... clown will sleep me.

"This is the way the world ends . . . not with a bang, but with a Honk! Honk!"

We always called it Willy Wurst (with the german 'w' as 'v' pronunciation of course). I don't remember it tasting bad, but I was like 5, so...

More Bob the Builder luncheon meat, from the Netherlands:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffwerner/2474444902/