Headscratchers / Sausage Party

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The "gods'" intentions

• During the climax, a cereal box shows his back to the crowd revealing a cartoony picture of two kids happily holding a sentient box of cereal, asking the food if they want to believe the evidence Frank is showing of a hot dog being eaten or the illustration of the box being treated positively. Going by the logic that opening up the anthropomorphic boxes and containers kills them, does the box not realize that he isn't correct either about how food is treated by the Gods? He would die the moment the kids open up the box.
  • Exactly; none of the foods except for Frank are aware of the Gods' true intentions until the bath salt toothpicks start to affect them and cause the shoppers to start killing the foods out of self-defense. They're not going to believe even the most official of photographic evidence until such murder actually happens in front of them.

The Druggie's Foods

• One of the Druggie's foods is a sentient sandwich with lettuce and ham inside. How is he able to stand up straight without the ingredients falling out of him?

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• One of the Druggie's food also appears to be a Pop Tart, remaining completely intact until the final battle where he is killed. Comparing this to the logic that the frozen foods don't exhibit any trauma from being in the freezer since their contents are made to be cold anyway, would toasting the Pop Tart kill it as much as eating it would, or not since Pop Tarts are mainly intended to be toasted even though they can also be eaten plain?

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• The Druggie also has an apparently non-sentient carton of “Pu Ping” Chinese takeout. Does this mean food that comes from restaurants or other non-store locations isn’t sentient like grocery food is?
  • When you take into consideration that Druggie has a sentient half-eaten slice of pizza in a box, that could be very well possible.

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The Subject of Juicebox

• The juice box in the employee break room is seen with a straw punctured in it but is primarily dying because of the hole in its crotch. Shouldn't puncturing the straw in its head have already killed it?
  • The Druggie's beer can is still alive even when the cap for it is clearly popped off, and the noodle can still have some awareness even after his "body" is cut open and his "intestines" (the noodles) are falling out. It seems that the beverage containers (and metal cans of soup, noodles, etc.) will still maintain some sentience even after they've been injured, and only once all their contents fall out will they pass away.

Who sees sentient foods

• It's made clear that humans can't see the foods unless the former are on bath salts. In that case, what do they see when they see the foods climbing up the shelves, etc.?
  • Maybe they don't see the foods in any form whatsoever (sentient or not) even when they're in the presence of them climbing the shelves and countertops, but once the foods make it up there, they suddenly see a plain sausage on the shelf that they didn't notice the last few seconds ago ("Woah, how did this sausage get on the shelf? I didn't notice it there when I first came here.")

Unaware of their insides

• How much do the foods actually know about their properties? Brenda talked about having toothpaste squeezed all over her, which would be some horrific revelation if a human was shown to use toothpaste; and Sgt. Fizz and Geronimints seemed to be well aware of what would occur when they join forces.
  • Pretty aware, as the buns and sausages can’t wait to mate.

The Immortality of Gum

• How is Gum still able to remain alive after being chewed up and stepped on? Yes, people never swallow gum and thus spit it out, so that means the humans wouldn't have digested him, but being stepped on seems like it should've killed him since people have probably scraped him under the concrete with the outsoles of their shoes and thus killed him.
  • Well, when you consider that Stephen Hawking survived an illness that only gave him two years to live...
  • If being shot didn't kill him, why would being chewed up and stepped on kill him?

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• Since Gum appears to be old, does that mean he was formerly a fresh new stick of gum? If so, does that mean he aged fast in gum years while being chewed by humans?
  • Most likely, as the gum strips shown giving him a lap dance during the orgy appear to be young and fresh rather than elderly like him.

The Subject of Freezer foods

• Would an ice cream container be tortured by the coldness of a freezer and eventually die that way, or would it just suffer without the freezing process killing it? Also, since the ice cream inside it would eventually melt if not eaten once removed from the freezer, would the melting process kill the container itself, or would it still somehow be able to stay alive? Ice cream containers would seem to have the least luck out of all the anthropomorphic foods; they would probably have no ability to protect themselves from death or suffering.
  • An ice cream container appears near the film's climax when she tells Frank she can't run from the humans because she'll melt. From this, we can assume that an ice cream container will stay alive for as long as the ice cream inside of it is unmelted. If that's the case then removing the ice cream should kill the container as well. She also doesn't show any signs of trauma from being inside of a freezer so ice cream containers may be just used to the cold considering their contents are made to be cold anyway.

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• Would an ice cream cone be sentient with the ice cream itself being lifeless, or would the ice cream itself be sentient with the cone being lifeless? If the ice cream was sentient, would it be turned on by the licking process from the humans, thus being the only food that enjoys its death? The melting process would presumably be the only way an ice cream cone could be tortured if that's the case.
  • If the ice cream in question is scooped from a container, it probably serves as the container's "internal organs". So the ice cream itself would be lifeless. If the ice cream is made from scratch in a machine but not put into a container, if the pizza in the Druggie's house is any indication, it'll probably be sentient. Regardless, the cone would most likely be sentient in either case, because it came from a package or was pre-made. Also, the wine bottle didn't seem to enjoy being held between Camille's legs as it was being uncorked. So depending on a food's preferences it could either be turned on or feel raped.
  • Furthermore, ice cream cones can also be tortured by humans biting them. Not everyone licks their ice cream cones.

Their insides

• How would the anthropomorphic containers be killed? Would losing the food inside them result in death, or would the containers have to be injured (eg. getting crushed, stepped on, opened up, etc.) to die?
  • The juice box that Douche comes across seemed to be in relatively good shape minus the hole in his crotch but was still dying regardless. And an ice cream container near the climax states she can't leave her freezer or else she'll melt. From this, we can assume the food or drink inside a container serves as its "internal organs" or "blood" and thus can't live without it.
  • The mint package died when all the mints fell out of him, so it's probably the former case.

Cooking =Reincarnation?

• Does the potato realize that his death is temporary and that he'll likely be reincarnated into some sort of potato dish?
  • Since you have to cook potatoes to eat them, and the cooking process kills the food, presumably once a potato is cooked, that's it. It's notable that when we see a bag of potato chips in this movie, it's the sealed bag that's anthropomorphic; the actual chips seem to be lifeless.

Invisible "anatomy"

• Do the hot dogs have dicks themselves, or not since they're supposed to resemble them?
  • Frank can be seen masturbating at the end of the film. He seems to have a penis.
  • It's most likely a phantom penis. That, or he’s rubbing himself top to bottom.

Food Reality vs Beliefs

• How big is the rift between the food's reality and the human reality? When food moves, it's shown in the human reality to be rolling/falling/etc. But how does that explain when unpackaged food moves about freely, like when Carl and Barry move to the windowsill; when Barry hangs on to the Druggie's shoelace and sneaks through his house; how does the food launch toothpicks if they don't have arms or legs in the humans' reality?; and lastly how would the final battle look through the eyes of someone not hopped up on bath salts?
  • Even the humans are off. Why does Druggie seem to be oblivious even from the perspective of the food (no hidden or glowing eyes when off the salts for example), while Camille shows obvious intent with her knife from Carl and Barry's perspective?
  • In addition, how will reality handle the main characters, now that they are going there?
    • It probably would look like the Poltergeist phenomena with objects flying around and hitting people push by invisible forces.
  • It could be a case of Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane, like how Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes got tied up once.

The Subject of the name

• Why are hotdogs referred to as "sausages" in this film? Isn't that term more commonly associated with the breakfast item?
  • Well, yes. But the movie's called "Sausage Party". As for why they used hotdogs instead of actual sausages... Probably for innuendo's sake.
  • Maybe they actually are sausages. Polish sausages and other types of sausages look like hotdogs but are thicker and longer.
  • Hot dogs are sausages. They can also be called Frankfurter sausages, as they originate in Frankfurt, Germany like how hamburgers originate from Hamburg, Germany. A sausage is a product made of ground meat, salt, spices, and sometimes other flavoring or fillings, encased in skin. There are many varieties, including hot dogs (frankfurters), bratwursts, salami, breakfast sausage, kieł basa, chorizo, bologna, and hundreds of others.

Sentient Tools?

• Are the knives and other cooking implements sentient too?
  • No, in fact, they are used as weapons.
  • Weird, since other inedible products were alive. It's a pity, really, they could've been imagined as sentient and evil, being in collaboration with the "Gods".
    • It appears that only consumable products are alive, while multi-use items, like cooking utensils, are just inanimate objects.
    • Besides technically you can eat and digest paper (like the toilet paper) and the douche uses water that can also be consumed.
  • Tampons, douches, and condoms seem to be of liking.

Deja Vu?

• Frank is a hotdog and thus is a processed food derived from various animal byproducts like beef, pork, chicken, or whatever. Hasn't he been through this kind of hell before?
  • Humans never go through the hell their mothers do while birthing them. Maybe the same works with the food?

Reincarnation fueds?

• Since Frank and the sausages are meat, said animals must have eaten vegetables. Why don't the vegetables hate the meats for eating them in some past life?
  • Because those vegetables are already dead and eaten, absorbed into energy for the animal, that in turn was chopped up to bits to create the hot dogs. So by that point, the veggies are probably not of sound/body to be giving opinions anymore.
  • That doesn't explain why the anthropomorphic vegetables shown in the movie (ie. the cabbages, ears of corn) don't hate the sentient meats for eating vegetables when they were animals.
  • They don't seem to have any memory of their pre-market life.
  • Maybe they are born when pulled out.
  • Even if the plant-derived foods do remember their time growing on a farm somewhere, why would they know what happened to their fellows who were hauled off to become animal feed? Or that meat products come from animals, for that matter? Even free-range livestock don't get to forage in places where crops are grown for human consumption, and meat animals certainly aren't slaughtered there.

Baby carrots

• The baby carrots in the trailer are actually baby cut carrots which are made from full-grown carrots. So was the full-grown carrot alive before it was turned into all those baby carrots? What is the process of food becoming sentient? Is cookie dough sentient or not until it is cooked? What about the eggs and flour used for the cookie dough?
  • Maybe the process is like reincarnation or regeneration. You die as one or more foods and come back as a new one with no prior knowledge of your past 'life' or 'lives'. Might even explain Frank's situation above.
  • A further problem: a slice of pepperoni pizza is sentient. What determines that the pizza is sentient but not the pepperoni or cheese?
    • A sentient block of cheese is shown being grated during the food massacre scene, and the shreds of cheese don't have any sentience. This implies that once a food item as a whole is cut up into individual slices, said slices will be lifeless. The same can be said for pepperoni, as the pieces were likely cut from pepperoni meat as a whole.
  • Even worse - the Mentos that killed the shopper with the Diet Coke attack was shown to be sentient. But when he pulled the rip cord and dropped the individual candies out of his tube, they were shown as sentient too.
  • Maybe it's a Fusion Dance kind of thing. Like, if multiple different foods are put together to make another food, the minds of all the foods meld together and become one.
  • Possible explanation: full carrots become conscious upon harvest and having their leaves and fine roots removed is either horrible mutilation or just like a person getting a haircut or pets getting groomed. But getting cut up and tumbled into baby carrots would be a massacre and the newly born innocent babies would have little notion of the veritable genocide that went into their creation. The same can be said for individual corn kernels. The zombified partially digested kernels might have been fine if they hadn't yet been eaten, but the whole ears of corn would be obliterated to make them, just like the Mentos pack's death seemed to give life to the individual candies. (Or were they already alive inside and he just deflated when they dropped out?)
    • Regarding the Mentos, they were most likely initially lifeless inside their casing since the package itself was already alive, but they came to life once said package sacrificed his life to use the candies inside him to set the Diet Coke attack into action. Since they're the only packaged foods that are sentient in addition to the container they came in, this seems to be the likeliest explanation. But then again, there is a sentient Pop Tart which had to have been initially inside two sentient packages (the box and silver wrapping), which makes this outcome much more ambiguous...

Sentience Again

• What decides if the food itself, like the sausages, is sentient as opposed to the container being sentient with the contents being similar to organs, like the tin in the Saving Private Ryan reference? Would a box of cereal be aware, or would each piece of cereal inside have its own awareness? Is a loaf of sliced bread one entity or is each slice distinct? If it's one does it die/suffer when it's sliced?
  • Sausages are basically processed meat and other foodstuffs encased in edible wrapping.

Food vs None Foods

• What is the line between food and not-food? If a predator kills an animal, does that animal's carcass, which is now food, suddenly become sentient? If that's the case then wouldn't the logical result of this be some sort of zombie apocalypse?
  • No, this was answered by the scene when Frank is traveling through the Frozen aisles, when Meat Loaf is singing there are piles of fish and octopus in the frozen aisles, and the fish and octopus are lifeless, they're not talking or blinking at all. So no zombie apocalypse.
  • The scene with the baby carrots shows the food from the human perspective (rolling on the counter by accident instead of running for it). It's likely the same disconnect between prey and predator. If the flesh does become sapient, the predator would be none the wiser as it ate.
  • Remember that toilet paper, douches, lightbulbs, tampons, and condoms are also alive. There's something about marketplaces that makes them come alive.

What happens to the expired foods?

• What's the experience like for food that has expired and will never be eaten by humans? At what point would the food "die" in spirit, or would it be doomed to consciously rot for eternity?
  • The corn in the dog poop does seem to imply that the food will maintain some amount of awareness as it decomposes.
  • Probably senility and arthritis like any other life form that ages too far.
  • They become moldy zombies until they rot away completely, like the infected in The Last of Us.

The "Truth" and the Nonperishables

• Is Frank the first food product to realize the truth about food's ultimate destiny? Why is he the first one in history to try and save his fellow foods?
  • There is also the group of non-perishables he hooks up with who fill in the blanks. As for why no one tried to save anyone, Firewater's comment about no one believing Frank implies they had tried and failed.
    • That and Firewater probably had them Killed to Uphold the Masquerade.
    • Firewater openly says that everyone knew the truth before they invented the song, so Frank is not the first. Honey Mustard did also and was threatened by Firewater to keep the secret or be killed as if they would kill someone for not complying doubtfully, as Twink says "if we kill him we are no better than the Gods", so they have never killed anyone before.
  • The turnover for most products in the supermarket is going to be days, for some even hours. It wouldn't take long for everyone who remembers an idea to be sold or dumped into the bottomless black maw of the garbage bin, so it could well have been only a few weeks ago that the song was written.

Talking TP

• Why can the toilet paper talk? Toilet paper isn't food.
  • Neither is Douche. Maybe any item related to digestion in some way or another is sentient.
  • The rules seem to be that whatever goes on a supermarket shelf will come alive. Unless it's pizza or sandwiches, in which case they're probably reincarnations.
    • To be more precise, later into the movie Barry happens upon a talking used condom on the streets, and the kitchen equipment in the Dark Aisle is shown to be non-sentient, suggesting that only consumables are anthropomorphic.
  • It could be that anything that comes from the Shopwells supermarket comes to life (well, they can only be seen alive if the humans are on bath salts). Maybe the condom and the toilet paper were bought from said supermarket.
  • It is also possible that non-consumable multi-use objects like the kitchen equipment are alive but have their own dimension in a similar way to how humans can't see that food is alive, food and appliances do not see each other, but they do see humans.

What to do with sentient foods?

• Even if food is sentient, what the hell are humans supposed to do about it? Most living creatures have to eat to survive. It's basic biology.
  • Nothing, that's the ultimate Fridge Horror of the movie.
  • Eat dirt. (sarcasm)
    • What if the dirt is sentient too?
    • It doesn't seem to matter if the food is sentient. The only time the foods can get revenge on the humans is if said humans are on bath salts.
    • Wrong, food can affect humans, Barry pulls one of the stoner's shoe laces to make him fall causing (albeit indirectly) his death and they pinch the humans with toothpicks to infect them with the bath salts, they could kill humans if they want. The bath salts were for humans to see them, probably in the hope that humans would stop harming them if they realized they were alive, but it didn't work as humans panicked and start killing them even more so they defend themselves.
  • Well, considering things like meats and plants, they're living things and we still eat them, so humans are already eating what may be considered "sentient".

More on the Sentience and the "Truth"

• As someone who worked at a supermarket, what about things like the deli and the butcher departments (where meats, cheeses, etc, get cut up), or the free samples table, or even just those "grazer" types that might try a tiny piece of fruit to taste? Do the foods not realize their "destiny" when seeing that, or is this just a supermarket where those things never happen?
  • They probably see those incidents as God smiting the wicked. If food has any concept of original sin, then they'll use it to rationalize the occasional moment of terror.
  • But they apparently can't even fathom that food can be and is eaten. This is weird of course since it's hard to believe no one has ever eaten anything inside that mall.
  • Shopwell's is never seen offering free samples of food. Not all grocery stores offer free samples.
    • There is an in-store cafe that can be seen if one has really good eyes, which is best seen when Camille confronts Darren about her dropped groceries.

Food in Resturaunts

• About the above at supermarkets what about fast food or restaurant food? Are they just Conditioned to Accept Horror? What about the sections of supermarkets that have already made and hot foods like the deli section? And how has none of the food noticed this before especially since people tend to sample some of the food like grapes right then and there in the store?
  • Well, most of the ingredients in fast food/restaurants' kitchens are slices formed from killing individual whole entities, like the cheese slices from blocks of cheese, buns from bread loaves, etc. So they'd already be lifeless on that basis alone (since the shredded cheese from the block of cheese in the massacre scene and chips from the potato chip bag are lifeless as opposed to the foods they came from). But even for the ones that do have some form of life, they'd try making a run for it too as our heroes did. The same thing can be said in the deli scenario if the foods sold originated from whole entities as well, though it's possible for the ones that didn't that even if they've already been cooked, they're still alive somehow and don't die until they're actually eaten.

Wrong aisle

• At Shopwell's, why are the hot dogs and the buns placed on the same shelf next to each other? It is common sense for all grocery stores to place hot dogs in refrigerated sections just like with all raw meats to avoid getting spoiled quickly or having their juices leaking out of the packages which would make them too sticky for customers when they purchase them, and therefore they should not be placed so close (let alone, mere inches) to the buns which need to be sold at room temperature.
  • The sausages and buns said that "red white and blue" day was coming up, so it was probably a special display set up for that Fourth of July weekend. It's not unheard of to set hotdogs and buns next to each other in refrigerated displays for short amounts of time since the cold isn't going to hurt the buns and it helps to convince customers to buy the store's favored brand/prices.
  • Shopwell's seems like a pretty gross store run by apathetic kids.

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• And why do Frank and Barry's packages, Fancy Dogs, offer 10 hot dogs when Brenda's packages, Glamour Buns, only offer 8 hot dog buns? Wouldn't customers be 2 buns too short for their hot dogs? The least common multiple is 40, so wouldn't customers need to buy at least 5 Glamour Buns and 4 Fancy Dogs to have an equal number of hot dogs and hot dog buns?
  • The "why do buns only come in packages of eight if hot dogs come in packages of ten" question is actually much older than most people think. The answer boils down to a combination of butchers selling packs of hot dogs as an even pound (due to the light weight of an individual frank), and existing bakery equipment being cost prohibitive to change. Fortunately, jumbo dogs usually come in eight-count packs if you don't want any extras.
  • What's stopping... anyone from just cooking and eating the two leftover sausages without buns?
    • Nothing. Presumably, that's what Stoner intended to do to Barry, who wouldn't have filled a non-smushed bun in any case.

Food Sentience and Bath Salts

• If the humans can't see/hear the food unless they take bath salts, how does it appear as though Camille Toh knowingly kills Carl and tries to kill Barry?
  • Because it's the food's perspective. The food has no idea that the humans can't normally see them.
  • Yeah, she was just using a knife to pick a couple of sausages that somehow got on the window sill.

Sudden intel

• In the climax, how did the food manage to aim so flawlessly? A bunch of critters that have spent most of their life contained has never used weapons before, in the span of a few hours manage to use improvised bows (and anyone who has used those in real life knows they are NOT easy to learn) and get good enough to hit several moving targets?
  • There's a lot about their intelligence that doesn't make sense, given that any perishable products can't be more than a few days old.
  • The foods' target for the bath salts were humans, and they were using toothpicks, so it didn't seem too hard given their target took up their entire radar, and then the toothpicks rained down on a nose, the back of a neck and Darren's buttocks.
  • For all we know, they'd practiced with those bows before launching the attack. The real question is, why weren't the toothpicks sentient if other consumables like condoms, toilet paper, and toothpaste are?
    • Not every non-food item is shown to be sentient. Simple as that. Or maybe they have their own form of anthropomorphism in a separate world imperceptible to the humans and food.

Armed Supermarket Staff

• In the climax, Darren pulls out a gun. What kind of supermarket chain lets the staff bring guns? People get fired from their jobs at these places for chasing thieves on foot even if no one else gets hurt, much less shooting them.
  • They probably didn't know he had one. He didn't brandish it after all. And with the recent slew of shootings, the risk of losing a job may be considered an acceptable tradeoff by some.
  • Darren always hated working at the supermarket, and the food trying to harm, if not outright kill him out of spite for having thrown away many foods into the garbage before, may have made him draw the line at keeping his job. Darren also didn't seem to mind getting fired, he barely gets paid as a shelf boy.
  • Not to mention the fact that many supermarkets in the United States allow people to carry arms and some even sell guns to shoppers.
  • The gun was in a bottom drawer behind a register. It was likely there in case of a robbery.
  • Darren's the guy who locks the place up at night. If anyone's going to get confronted by robbers, it's him, as they'd likely break in after closing.
  • This, of course, begs the question of whether the bullets were sentient. Technically, they're consumables too.
    • The bullets aren't portrayed with any form of awareness, so it's safe to say no.

Useless Police

• Almost everyone in this film will be dead in about a week when the police or someone else cut the power to the freezers while they investigate all the deaths.
  • Not to mention that they're food. Besides the nonperishables and the anthropomorphic container types, they're all gonna rot eventually, and they can't exactly reproduce.
  • The point is that they all got to die fulfilled, i.e. having sex over and over until they peacefully expire.
  • Like most creatures. Eventually, the message of the movie is that you should enjoy your life and do what you like to do disregarding religious rules that forbid things like sex. It's a metaphor. The only difference is that we last decades and they last days.

Sentient Corn Cob or Sentient Kernels?

• The start of the movie showed that a whole ear of corn is anthropomorphic. How come when we see chunks of corn in a dog turd, they're all individual beings?
  • Maybe they're a Hive Mind, maybe it's like The Thing, where every separated part of the creature becomes an independent organism. Or, being undead, the chunks are akin to reanimated parts of the body.
  • Could be canned corn. Going by the Mentos-type-guys example, the individual kernels of corn would be alive after they came out of the can.

More on the Foods' Fates

• The massacre at Camille Toh's place showed corn chips being made into nachos. Following the logic of the film, they should have originally been inside a sentient bag. Wouldn't a bag of corn chips being ripped open have tipped everyone off that they were doomed to die horrible deaths?
  • Not all packages are sentient; sometimes it's just the contents inside them that are anthropomorphic, whereas the packages themselves are lifeless, like the packages for sausages and buns.
  • And then sometimes, BOTH are sentient, like the package of mints being opened to reveal several smaller, equally sapient mints.
  • Furthermore, most bags of corn chips in real life have a clear display of the chips inside the bag, so this could imply that if a food package has a display of the contents inside them, then the package will be lifeless as opposed to said contents inside them; the boxes for the sausages, buns, and potatoes shown in the movie are a good example of this. This is also why when a bag of potato chips is shown in this movie, only the bag itself is sentient while the chips inside them are lifeless because most potato chip bags in real life don't have a clear display as opposed to tortilla chips.

How do they do the thing?

• If the food doesn't reproduce, why do they have genitals and why can they have sex?
  • For the same reason they have eyes but not a brain to receive the info from the optic nerves and mouths but they do not need to eat; they're anthropomorphic entities animating food.

Doesn't Cutting Hurt?

• A loaf of bread is shown alive and is tortured by being cut up into slices. There's also a living sandwich, which is made of two bread slices, one (the face) being sentient while the other (the back) being lifeless. How does THAT work?
  • Maybe the bread from the living sandwich was from a bag of bread slices rather than cut from a loaf of bread. Also, it makes sense that only one slice of the two bread pieces would be sentient if two faces aren't necessary to show sentience (that'd be a serious problem if it were the case).
  • Or it was sold as a pre-made sandwich as you find at airport kiosks.

Grits

• What kind of food is Mr. Grits?
  • A box of hominy grits.

Non-Perishables and how they work

• Why are there only three characters that are considered "non-perishable"? Technically most of the items that aren't meant to be eaten are all non-perishable as well.
  • Those three are probably the ones who have been there the longest, and thus know exactly how to survive and stay out of the humans' sight.
  • Firewater and Mr. Grits imply that the store stopped carrying them and had their space filled with White Crackers, hence why they hate them, a reference to how European settlers colonized the indigenous land. They avoided being purchased or retired by the store by hiding between shelves in the spirits area. The same may or may not have happened to Twink.
  • Twink, at least, may have escaped from a package that was damaged or torn open accidentally. Twinkies aren't normally sold as single items, so possibly somebody dropped his two-pack and his twin got squashed.
    • To answer a few points, certain alcoholic beverages (Firewater), dry foods (Grits), and junk foods (Twink) tend to have longer shelf-lives and can go a long time without being consumed but still remain consumable. In terms of the movie, they're the oldest, managed to stay alive the longest, and so would know about the humans.

Alive separate but not together

• How is it that a slice of pizza is an individual being? Wouldn't a pizza already be alive before it was cut up?
  • Maybe there's a different rule for pizza: a pizza as a whole wouldn't be anthropomorphic (cooked or not), nor would the toppings since they were made from killing foods that used to be a whole (eg. the block of cheese getting killed in the food massacre scene by being grated clearly implies that the shredded cheese would be lifeless), but once it is cut up triangularly, each individual slice automatically comes to life.
  • The pizza slice was lying in a pizza delivery box. Probably it was pre-cut at the pizzeria when it was fresh out of the oven, hence still cooking from its own heat and not quite 'born'/sentient yet.

Fruits vs Fruit Juiceboxes

• Why don't the fruits hate the juice boxes for having their makers kill them and storing their blood (which is in this case, the juice) inside their cartons?
  • Ignorance? Maybe they don't know how juice is made and consider them "distant cousins".

Individuals or the same

• Since more than just one item of the same food can be sentient, such as there being numerous sentient jars of honey mustard, does that mean they're all clones, or is each one different and have some sort of relationship with one another? The sausages aren't clones of each other and therefore each one is different from one others, but what about the containers, bags of chips, or the aforementioned jars of honey mustard? Are all of them clones or is each one different from one the other, and if the latter is the case then what relationship do they have with each other? Are they supposed to be family or friends?
  • Most likely they're individuals, but for the sake of production, they're made to look the same.
  • Why wouldn't they have individuality and personalities of their own? The sausages and the buns do, even when they come from the same package.
  • It's highly unlikely any of them are considered family members to each other; Frank was probably just referring to the sausages as his "brothers" in a "mates" kind of way. Otherwise, food of the same kind wouldn't have been shown engaging in sexual activity with each other in the orgy scene...

Stickers and Douche

• How was Douche able to put the sticker back on after Brenda ripped it off of him? The sticker would probably have lost its adhesiveness from not only being peeled twice (remember, Douche took it off the juice box) but also getting wet from the fluids dripping out of the wound he had.
  • Maybe it has to do with the strength he received from consuming all that juice and liquor.
  • Probably a different sticker; he was shown grabbing, killing, and drinking all kinds of drinks.

Who pooped on the sidewalk?

• Why would somebody lay a deuce on the sidewalk?
  • Dogs; they can eat corn. So it was most likely a dog deuce that someone didn't bother to pick up.
    • Happens all the time when a dog is allowed to lick whatever's left off the family's dinner plates. Or when a stray knocks over the garbage to scrounge.
  • Could have been a homeless person, too.

Firewater's Truth

• Firewater reveals that he made up religion. Shouldn't spaghetti have made up religion? Seriously, why didn't they make a joke about that?
  • Because not many people would have a clue what the joke was about.

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• Firewater said that food was terrified before they made up the religion of the great beyond. So, if food knew they would be killed if bought, why would they stay on the shelves and let the humans take them? Why not have an uprising? Food greatly outnumbers humans so any uprising shouldn't be too hard. Especially since, without bath salts, the humans won't even see it coming.
  • They consider humans to be gods, and by extension, almighty immortals. Up until Barry came back with the Druggie’s severed head at least. Before then, they were adamantly against Frank’s revelation of the truth. Partially because they thought that, even if the Great Beyond IS bullshit, they don’t stand a chance against dozens of immortal gods.
  • For all we know, foods did try. People sometimes do slip on a spillage or get clonked on the head by falling cans at the supermarket. But without the revelation provided by the bath salts, both they and other nearby humans would just write off such mishaps as "accidents" and carry on without any sign of fear, which would quickly demoralize any would-be uprising: "Damn, that jar of pickles to the noggin somehow made that one's forehead leak red goop, but these huge galumphing creatures just took the drippy one away and mopped up the puddle! They must be some kind of immortal gods, to ignore us even when we fight back!"
  • Know how you'll often find a lone food item out of place at the supermarket? In our world, it's because somebody changed their mind about buying it and didn't bother taking the rejected item back to the aisle where it belonged. In the film's world? It'd be an escape attempt in progress.

Sentient Drugs

• Why aren't the bath salts sentient too?
  • They didn't come from a supermarket.
  • Also, the drugs nicknamed "bath salts" aren't literally bath salts. Nobody sells them as commercial products.

Brenda's Remorse

• Would Brenda would feel remorse if she learned that Carl was horribly murdered?
  • Possibly, as she tried to prevent Honey Mustard from jumping to his death even after snidely saying he should kill himself due to his indecisive product name, which gives the impression that she would care about Carl's death despite mocking him too earlier in the film.
• Throughout the film, we see several food items wearing various forms of clothing, which can be removed (such as when Frank’s glove falls off), so how would humans perceive a removed food clothing item? IE: If a bun Prefers Going Barefoot, would a human see two tiny high heels right outside the bun package? Not to mention how the food even got them in the first place.
  • If they're on bath salts, they would very likely see the process of the clothing item removal. However, they most definitely wouldn't if they were unaffected. It's worth noting in the movie that when the baby carrots try making a run from their death, Camille Toh just sees two lifeless carrots rolling down the counter without any facial features or clothing, and the Druggie just sees Barry as a plain sausage when off the bath salts, meaning they're without their arms and legs. Also, the shoes are just a trait to portray the foods' sentience, so most of them were probably just born naturally with them and they may even be a part of their body without having independent bare feet. However, some of them, such as the buns, most likely do have bare feet since the tops of their feet are exposed through their particular choice of footwear, and probably found a tiny pair of toy doll heels laying out on the street or something.

Back to Druggie

• Druggie is no longer affected by the bath salts once he wakes up, hence he sees Barry and the potato chip bag as plain foods without their sentience. In that case, how did he hear Barry shouting into his ear to wake up?

Douche's Escape

• How did Douche escape from between the shelves when it was made clear in the chase scene that he was too big to squeeze his way out? He just suddenly returns to Darren without any explanation for his escape.
  • He may have been strong enough to push the two shelves behind to make room for his escape. Drinking all kinds of liquors did show to strengthen his muscles after all.

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• Furthermore, why didn't he return to Camille following the reparation of his nozzle and juices?
  • She was already long gone from the store once he fixed himself. There's no way he would have been able to find out where she lives either since none of the Foods would have been willing to help him track her down, so he resorted to shoving himself up Darren's anus to compensate for his lack of use.

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Licorice

• How is the licorice rope sentient and sticking out of his package? The bag he comes in should be sentient with the individual ropes inside being lifeless. It makes no sense as to how the bag is somehow sealed yet the licorice is still hanging out of it.

How did the Foods not know?

• How do the Foods not know that the humans are intent on eating them in the first place? Don't the frozen foods at least have microwave instructions imprinted on their backs to indicate their fate?
  • They still slam Frank for "opposing their beliefs" even after he countermands their idealism with photographic evidence from a cookbook. They won't believe it until they see it to believe it, as proven once they finally opened their eyes once the bath salts affected the shoppers and caused them to start murdering the foods.

Escaping toilet paper

• How was the roll of toilet paper able to escape from the rack in the bathroom? There's no way he could have pulled himself off, and he should have been killed already because he is shown without the brown tube accompanying his posture.

Sentient Poptarts

• Something about the Pop Tart's sentience doesn't make sense. Pop Tarts in real life are sealed in a silver wrapping and then put in a box. The box must have been sentient since most of the containers are, except those with clear displays of their contents, in which case the packaged food is sentient instead. But opening the box must have killed it; in which case, what would the silver wrappers be: sentient or lifeless? If opening said wrappers resulted in their death (assuming the wrappers were sentient as well), how does that explain the Pop Tart's sentience if the food inside packages is lifeless unless the package has a clear display window?
  • The movie is inconsistent with the rules of sentience. The Mentos package doesn't have a clear display of its contents, yet the package is sentient, and its death gave life to the individual candies inside as well.
    • It's also an easy detail to miss, but during the "Saving Private Ryan" sequence, a flying potato chip impales two grapes. That chip showed signs of sentience; it was screaming and flailing its arms and legs about.

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