--- title: Food Disguised As Other Food Is The Best Art Genre We Never Knew About description: It looks like a banana but it's actually a cucumber canonical: https://time.com/19881/food-disguised-as-other-food-is-the-best-art-genre-we-never-knew-about/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-11T15:20:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:40.870Z og:title: Food Disguised As Other Food Is The Best Art Genre We Never Knew About og:description: A level of stealth that you didn't even know was possible og:url: https://time.com/19881/food-disguised-as-other-food-is-the-best-art-genre-we-never-knew-about/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Food Disguised As Other Food Is The Best Art Genre We Never Knew About twitter:description: A level of stealth that you didn't even know was possible twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Food Disguised As Other Food Is The Best Art Genre We Never Knew About by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 11, 2014 3:20 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 11, 2014 3:20 PM UTC Is that a banana in your cucumber, or are you just happy to see these pictures of food disguised as other food? Trick question! The answer is yes to both! \[[H/T: Reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2021hf/food%5Fdisguised%5Fas%5Fother%5Ffood%5Fart/)\] Food Disguised As Other Food Is The Best Art Genre We Never Knew About ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/19881/food-disguised-as-other-food-is-the-best-art-genre-we-never-knew-about/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/19881/food-disguised-as-other-food-is-the-best-art-genre-we-never-knew-about/"},"headline":"Food Disguised As Other Food Is The Best Art Genre We Never Knew About","datePublished":"2014-03-11T15:20:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:40.870Z","description":"A level of stealth that you didn't even know was possible","url":"https://time.com/19881/food-disguised-as-other-food-is-the-best-art-genre-we-never-knew-about/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food","reddit","Art"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/19881/food-disguised-as-other-food-is-the-best-art-genre-we-never-knew-about/","name":"Food Disguised As Other Food Is The Best Art Genre We Never Knew About"}}]}] ```