Video: War history portrayed as food fights

Here's a novel take on war. Filmmaker Stefan Nedelman (touristpictures.com) stages a series of food fights to represent the history of war, from World War II to the present day. The 'combatants' are ethnic foods from the various warring countries and groups. Have a look:



(If the video above does not display or play properly, you can view it here on BoingBoing TV.)

In case you couldn't identify some of the combatants, the filmmaker provides this cheat sheet.

I thought the video did a great job of characterizing ethnic groups in terms of emblematic foods, but I'm wondering if some groups -- or individuals in groups -- will take offense at being portrayed this way. For what it's worth, although I'm American, I've never thought of myself as either a hamburger or a chicken nugget! Nevertheless, I get the stereotype.

I found the video to be both amusing and surreal. It also made me squirm a bit, although I'm having a hard time putting my finger on exactly why.

In any case, it's a true original, and if it doesn't go rampantly viral around the Web, it should! What do you think?

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Tip of the hat to Stefan Nadelman, who produced this video, to BoingBoingTV for hosting this version of the video, and to John Battelle's Searchblog, where I first saw it.