At first glance it looks like they’re putting real guns in their mouths, but in real life they are eating edible ice guns.
They all have different kinds of flavors–cola, cherry, licorice and black currant. They are an addition to the first 50 tinted ice guns that Florian Jenett and Valentin Beinroth made and placed in downtown Frankfurt a few years ago.
These edible eatables where exhibited at an art show called “Freeze Revisited”, and their existence certainly shocked a lot of people.
Several other artists have used weapons as their inspiration, like these fashionable guns and rifles made for artistic purposes.
Isa says
Those are neat, but I can’t help but wonder what they taste like! Things that colour don’t usually taste very good, at least not if they are frozen treats.
Amazed says
This is idiotic and depraved.
a.ksl] says
this is awful!
HAH! says
so when a little kid goes to grab daddy’s gun and thinks its ice cream, he blows his brains out. good idea.
Jorge says
I really want the mold for these!
alley says
It seems like a very hipster mockery of depression and suicide. How disgusting.
Constable Kane says
this is some of the coolest popsicles i have ever seen. I want one!!
@amazed: you good sir are a moron
SuperSparky says
I love it when liberals get pissed. It just shows how hypocritical the great “tolerators” really are.
Where’s the chocolate Mini Guns?
Suszznn says
I am not a liberal but i can say this is terribly stupid. How about sticking them up their hindquarters too?
Ruprex says
Good. I hope every one of their kids see how cool the are and shoot each other. Like this is what we need in the gene pool.
norm says
Dumb.
Alizard says
c’mon it’s just an original popsicle Ô_O, if they are stupid enough to confuse weapons with food they certainly deserve to die.
`Ph0x says
To all of the whiners –
What would you prefere?
Kids sucking on a frozen cross?
Hmmm… Actualy… That’s a GREAT idea…
Get your frozen Crucifixes right here.
Jesus died for our sins so he could taste THIS good!
Come on, relax and get a life.
If you can’t see the irony in these, you shouldn’t even be allowed on the internet!
Urabewe says
Ok, when I was a kid I knew the difference between make believe and real life. I knew a fake gun from a real one. I don’t think there are any kids that will believe that a real gun is made of ice cream because of this, that is ridiculous.
Think back to your childhood, were you so naive as to be convinced that guns are made of ice cream? If there is a kid out there that believes this then the parents should be held accountable for neglect.
Lauren says
Gosh people are such babies. If your kid is stupid enough to think a real gun is ice cream you should have never had a kid to begin with since you obviously can’t tell them what’s right.
It looks to me to be a once time thing, for a cause, and for fun. It’s not like they’re packing these things in grocery stores and shipping them out.
I think they’re neat and a nice little laugh for the comically inclined.
Grow a funny bone you farts. Neat post. Cheers!
X says
These are meant to be provocative pieces of art. If you’re freaking out about this, you’re acting exactly the way the artist wants you to.
Psh. says
…Am I seriously the only one who when first seen this thought, “awesome.” I mean I can see where some of your views are coming from… but still..
Jack Vermicelli says
Ice cream? Sounds and looks more like a popsicle-type thing.
momo says
All Ice cream must be banned. If it saves just one life.
cdizzle says
fuckin sweet! i want the mold for that
Russ says
I really hope I don’t have kids mentally debilitated enough to think daddy keeps his gun in the freezer.
peepee says
really momo??? all ice cream should be banned just because of this…thats just stupid!!! This is kinda cool but for adults only. You dont want a kid getting a real gun confused
Lynne says
It is an awesome piece of art, yet I think it’s not appropriate. I have to admit, at first glance it was awesome, but seeing pple hold it up to other’s heads, is sad. It’s kinda sick…but it’s awesome and I want one lol
Hah is an ass says
How about a better idea…Dad putting his gun away! I’m sure these kids have never seen guns until this day. Clearly it’s the fault of the ice cream.
hozr says
This is stupid! This is the kind of thing that makes people vote for tighter gun controls! Weapons are tools of war and defense not cute hipster “art” deserts. The people responsible for this shouldn’t be allowed to have avant garde events. Art and artists have a responsibility to the public to ensure that their creations and performances do not harm the general welfare of the populous.
joe says
next they’re gonna make guns that look like ice cream pops… that’ll really throw the kids off
Jayme says
As a ‘humorless liberal’: I think these are hilarious. I don’t do guns, I dont’ want them in my home. I think if you take this as anything more than ironic art; you seriously need to have the stick surgically removed from your anus.
Ben says
Haha, get off your horses. This is one of the coolest ideas I’ve ever seen. Very similar to a smoking piece I have. Hilarious! If someone finds the mold make sure to post.
Ed.. From London says
Liberalism rightly gives them the right to do it… and us the right to to rightly call them cunts.
Meghan says
“Harm the general welfare of the populous?” …You do realize you’re talking about ice cream, right?
Adding arsenic to the water supply would harm the general welfare of the populous. These are harmless pieces of sugar, and putting a popsicle to someone’s head doesn’t mean they’d do it with a gun in my book.
I think it looks like good, delicious fun. 🙂
merissa says
oh, you people, don’t be such tightwads, it’s the creativity, don’t bring liberalism into it, it was just supposed to be creative, and i think it’s awesome that they made them into guns, and not something else. be thankful.
Phyza says
Lol what flavour is that? I think so it’s dark chocolate 😀
Btw nicely and neatly done and i think so you can fool anyone with such icecreams 🙂
Gordon says
Ha, only a neocon’s kid would be stupid enough not to know the difference between frozen liquid and metal, so they are the ones that should really suck that popsickle, lol.
oko says
Lol, at amounts of hipsters overthere…
Too bad , those aren’t real guns…it would be a nice brain-splatterfest performance…
Stay strong ,u are almost there!
Tim says
I am a free speech guy …. but this really makes me feel uncomfortable ….. seeing a kid put one in their mouth even though it is an illusion…. alarms my sensibilities. The guy holding a gun to another guy… my first thought….. lets don’t give metro another false excuse for shooting a human being.
DC says
Anything that promotes suicide is wrong. About 30,000 Americans commit suicide each year. Think ten 9/11s year in and year out. To me the product is a really bad idea.
http://www.plantsasmedicine.com
Hessah says
for you people that think the kid will pull the trigger of their daddys gun that is retarded. They dont pull any trigget on the icecream yeah? and once it doesnt taste good they wont put it in their mouths. in doesnt teach violence or anything.. it just tastes like icecream for godsakes.
Mikey says
Looks like something Sarah Palin would endorse.
Reality check says
…Okayyyyy… I know they’re not real – you know they’re not real… Hard to explain that to the police when THEY mistake it for real and you are dead, now, wouldn’t it?
Darwin award winner, for sure.
S says
I am a die-hard conservative, Gun enthusiast (so the flaming liberal comment is not applicable), and this has got to be the STUPIDEST idea I have ever seen.
Here kid, put a gun in your mouth! This is how accidents happen.
Joe says
They are popsicles. It’s intended to be a piece of art, not a consumer product. It’s just so that when you look at it at first you’re like “oh my god!” but then you’re like “oh cool!”
ART! It is defined as something that brings feelings and emotions to an individual. Everyone has different feelings toward it.
If you looked at this and were like “Oh my! that’s terrible” the artist succeeded.
Tatz says
Okay… to all of you crazy people who don’t see the art in the ice cream guns, you have to understand it’s just ice cream. There are worse toys out there that children play with that could also be easily confused for a real gun, or vice versa… Your arguments are futile and pointless, I am sorry. I think this is awesome, fun, and probably delicious ^^
-And no, I am not a gun enthusiast
Still sad says
I am a believer in gun rights but for those of us who have lost a loved one to suicide this is sick.
Sarah says
Very black humor, I love it! Though, if I were given one to eat I’d want to “fire” it at the floor or something first just to check. If this was a real product you could purchase at the store, I’d be a little more worried about the amount of dumb people who would get confused, but it’s just a piece of art… and if anything, art is meant to broadern you’re horizons a little 😉
kv says
Okay, Politically Correct Police, let’s calm it down now. In a culture saturated with violence, the least threatening thing is a cherry flavored Popsicle in a shape that makes you uncomfortable.
How many action television shows, news programs, ULTRA EXXXTREME films, WWF, cartoons and conversation about violence has your child been exposed to on a daily basis? Let’s get real now.
you nubs says
It’s art for those criticizing it. It is supposed to be offensive and terrible that is the point, for those not artistically inclined let me explain it to you.
Placing a gun in ones mouth or wielding a gun in general has many negative connotations in our society, even more so if a children does it. However everyone loves Ice Cream, its sweet and delicious.
Thus the artist is making a social commentary. He is tells us that we like guns as much as we like Ice Cream. Our society loves the taste of violence. It is an effective and powerful; social criticism. this type of art, unlike the Abstract BS some Americans enjoy is moralistic and allegorical at least more so then some art forms. If anything this work should be praised for the effect it has on us, it scares us, as violence should, even though we enjoy violence.
Xiozee says
Wow, too much fuss over this. I mean seriously, you can have your petty squabbles over this all day long, but does it do anything besides make you sleep better at night? Appreciate the ART and move on people. If you really have such a problem with it quit wasting your time with posting pointless comments and get off your lazy ass and do something about it. At least then you would be doing something for a cause, because I assure you that your comments are doing a whole load of nothing.
Jessica says
Relax people. These are epic!
Mr. Briggs says
I’m not saying that these ice cream guns will be confused with real guns later on – but think about how easy it must be to bring a real gun to this kind of event and have people mistakenly shooting themselves in the mouth thinking that it’s ice cream.
Anny says
Why don’t we bitch and moan some more about it? What have you guys thought of lately… no stupid ideas– ever?