NEC foodbot reveals dark secret: people taste like "bacon"

How could we have known when NEC unveiled their cute little tasting robot last year that something much more nefarious was at hand? Sure, it does its whole "I'm just a cute bot with no mouth that tastes your food and wine with an infrared sensor and probably won't try for world domination anytime soon," schtick, but at a recent press meetup the bot had a little Freudian slip that unveiled its true feelings. Apparently the bot mistook a reporter for prosciutto, and a cameraman's hand for bacon, revealing its deep longing for red meat and human flesh. We're just glad to hear the press meetup was able to adjourn before too many people got bitten, and as far as we know the NEC bot is currently in custody, refusing to speak with anyone other than Clarice Starling.

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[Wunch_of_Bankers @ Sep 29th 2006 7:45PM]

...and you wondered why NEC designed him without a mouth?!

[Benjamin Ellis @ Sep 29th 2006 8:04PM]

That is awesome.

[steve @ Sep 29th 2006 8:12PM]

i want one of those to freak out my little sister
bot: mmmmm, bacon
me: it think your made of bacon it wants your flesh RUN!!
sister:(runs in circle screaming while i throw a hard plastic robot at her)

[mimos @ Sep 29th 2006 8:23PM]

it has no mouth... its starving for human flesh XD!

[whatevas @ Sep 29th 2006 8:28PM]

AWESOME, but no wonder since pigs are biologically a lot similar to humans, among mammals.

I wonder how muslims would feel abt this.

[vakerrokero @ Sep 29th 2006 8:35PM]

My girlfriend says I taste like mexican. Considering I'm mexican that's pretty good!

[Romaine Haughton @ Sep 29th 2006 8:39PM]

My science teacher says humans should taste like pork

[Jack Goodwin @ Sep 29th 2006 8:41PM]

Forget soylent green, Beggin' Strips are people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aak7268 @ Sep 29th 2006 9:27PM]

Robots don't know it's not bacon!

[Paul @ Sep 29th 2006 9:37PM]

I for one welcome our flesh devouring, taste testing robotic overlords.

In all seriousness though the link to come to the comments is broken, it has a comma in it.

[strider_mt2k @ Sep 29th 2006 10:17PM]

Yep, there's your problem.
Someone set this thing to "evil".

[andrew @ Sep 29th 2006 10:17PM]

I'm liking the reference to Hanibal. Lol, Quick! Call Anthony Hopkins... I'm feeling a new movie: "Hanibal: Attack of the Bacon Robots!" lol

[Seamus Bartlett @ Sep 29th 2006 11:23PM]

And it comes with your choice of frozen yogurt, which I like to call "frogurt."

[Opus the Poet @ Sep 29th 2006 11:25PM]

Well, there is a reason why cannibals call human flesh "long pork", y'know?

Opus

[Michael @ Sep 30th 2006 1:55AM]

Darn. You guys took all the good jokes. Oh well.

This little guy might make a good partner for Chibi Robo, don'tcha think?

[Dave @ Sep 30th 2006 2:30AM]

Hilarious post.

[dfgdfgdfgdfg @ Sep 30th 2006 6:01AM]

MEIN TEIL!

[Todd @ Sep 30th 2006 9:21AM]

I would like to nominate this post, and its comments, for "funniest of the year".

[Alex @ Sep 30th 2006 12:14PM]

My english teacher was talking about his explorations to South America about a couple of weeks ago. He was with this environmental journal group and managed to come across a tribe that were cannibals. They explained to him that human flesh tasted like pork, and asked him if they wanted to try some. He refused.

That's why I found this article a little too revealing, to say the least.

[Big Al @ Sep 30th 2006 4:39PM]

Someone forward this to vegan.com. That'll show 'em.

[Ebzy @ Oct 2nd 2006 8:16AM]

@ whatevas

I'm a Muslim, and I say we are forbidden to eat pork and forbidden to be cannibals. So what were you wondering again?

[Chuckles McGee @ Mar 5th 2007 4:35PM]

So this is why the robots will choose to imprison us in farms instead of outright extinguishing us.