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If your mother told you not to play with your food, add culinary sculptor to the list of careers ruined by parental neurosis.

While sculpting food doesn't have quite the cachet of other discouraged vocations -- daredevil motorcycle racer, for example -- there will always be a place for those who can create a chocolate Elton John and a pope made out of pizza dough.

Sure, that place is usually a state fair or the mall courtyard, but art is art, even when it's also dinner. And Asylum salutes some of the weirdest and most amazing food sculptures out there.


Food Sculptures Too Incredible to Eat

    Engineers fear biscuit city would be unable to withstand a Category Three storm.

    Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images

    Many political analysts believe it was when Barack Obama allowed his visage to be sculpted from butter that he won over the voters of Iowa.

    Scott Olsen, Getty Images

    Oddly, it tastes like chicken.

    Flickr

    As much as she enjoys spending time with her fruit likeness, she knows her hunger will eventually get the best of her.

    Jim Victor

    It's one thing to fashion food into identifiable objects. But using it to create abstract art at a time when 20 percent world's population is malnourished is shameful.

    boreme.com

    Eccentric as he was, Ben Franklin would surely have appreciated this butter rendition of two of Philadelphia's most famous icons.

    A Fidel salad without the Russian dressing lacks punch.

    Jim Victor

    These days, the hip young food sculptures work exclusively in Spam

    Flickr

    Australian actress Jolene Anderson is all sorts of peaches.

    Gaye Gerrard, Getty Images

    Food sculptures can be found on the buffet tables of most cruise ships. Judging by the length and width of that fruit monkey's cigarette this Ocean liner must have just set sail from Jamaica.

    Webshots