Would you eat the soup in this painting?

voted yes cos got to stay hydrated and whatever is in the bowl is probably 1000% safer than any readily available contemporary drinking water

huh.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1366/562283586_cc1dca74e6_b.jpg

how bout this one

maybe this is the 1610 version of the Tide pod challenge and he's going to eat EVERYTHING

yeah, i didn't get that's how you were meaning exotic, sorry

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we all agree to abide by the results of the poll right? like if "yes" wins we have to eat the soup

There could be Spanish coins in Holland until Holland became independent, possibly that might be an angle. I don't know whether or how much coinage travelled between countries at that time. Given the pre-eminence of Spain it would make sense for Spanish coinage to be widespread, perhaps.

ya habsburg spain makes sense come to think of it

they wanna put their money on display so they put a bunch of meat

The thing with this whole still-life genre of painting is you're never quite sure if it's meant to be saying all this is vanity, or rather look at all this stuff we've got. The inclusion of the enigmatic chef really threw me for six in this particular case. There's no chef to be found in Josefa de Alaya's painting of the lamb, or in this typical vanitas from the Dutch School:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bb/7b/cc/bb7bcc24ff192d0779606e09d40abd58.jpg

^ This painting perhaps deserves its own poll.

https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2015_10/27/04/040630357/b6ea2fdd-d19b-41af-ad26-aec54c6065ce_570.Jpeg

i think his togs look more spanish than dutch (tho this is not my area of expertise)

It looks like a fairly standard doublet with baggy shirt underneath to me. His facial hair looks out of step with the Spanish fashion but that might just mean he isn't wealthy.

we all agree to abide by the results of the poll right? like if "yes" wins we have to eat the soup

Absolutely. Those who vote yes will receive a PM from me with instructions on where to find the soup.

I still think it’s blood

when I saw the soup, I didn't think "look at this decadent soup made of dirty water and blood. but what is the point. we're all going to die." I thought "no way would I ever eat that dingleberry's ass-tamarind chutney."

He might not like being called a dingleberry. Just saying.

i'd never vocalize that thought in his presence. i've seen ghostbusters ii.

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wow

...wow!

would you eat the poll results

Is this an ilx first

Nope!

an important poll about HARPER'S magazine

Think the write in explanations should be treated as a tiebreaker

wanna end this prophylactic tour

Fucking hell. I've only gone and done it.

the look on that man's face, he knew the poll would end up like this. he's offering the soup only to mock us. we are doomed to remain frozen, forever on the threshold.

remember, your vote counts.

we need a thread for terrribly drawn/painted musical instruments