We’re tracking down the most bizarre food things we find in the deep, dark corners and bright shiny headlights of the internet.
This week, our editor Talia Ralph may have found your new ice-cold summer festival look.
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The rapper Ice-T has built a career full of accomplishments: 16 albums, a Grammy Award, a 20-year+ run on Law and Order SVU . He shares a rap name genus with Ice Cube, whose group N.W.A. is up there with rap’s most influential; he’s been called one of the greatest MCs of all time by MTV and The Source, and also took cinematic turns in Barbershop and 21 Jump Street .
Despite the similarities of their rap names and their multi-faceted careers, they’ve collaborated only once (on Trespass , a movie and title track). Yet perhaps their greatest collaboration is one they had nothing to do with: iced tea. Specifically, this iced tea t-shirt .
Artist Marco Peschiera describes the idea like the true flash of artistic brilliance it so clearly was.
“This idea came while drinking a cold glass of ice tea and was like ‘what if?'” he told TeeFury , the site which sells these shirts along with several other products emblazoned with Ice Cube ice cubes and Ice-T iced tea emblazoned on them. “While painting this, I kept in the mind the flow of the design. I wanted it to taste better than lemonade. Anyone thirsty?”
We could spend time explaining the intricacies of the shirt itself, but it’s a much better experience if you just look at it yourself in all its glory:
The Got Tea? tee-shirt could be yours for just $20. Photo via TeeFury
Look how happy these preppy white models are to be wearing such a glorious representation of hip-hop in drink form! Think about all the compliments you’ll get from friends and strangers at the rumored N.W.A. reunion at Coachella this weekend! It’s really a no brainer: this is both the weirdest and most glorious thing we’ve seen on the internet this week.
If Ice-T and Ice Cube don’t float your sartorial boat (which is questionable, but to each their own) there’s always this offering, which Peschiera aptly titled EM&M —”a piece of chocolate filled with powerful lyrics inside!”:
A moderately uncomfortable depiction of Eminem. Photo via TeeFury
If you’re trying to make more of an overtly political statement, but also appreciate the irony of having one of the great Marxist revolutionaries crossed with the lowest common denominator of fast food capitalism, then this “Che FC” might be the shirt for you:
Revolution and fried chicken: totally go hand-in-hand Photo via TeeFury
The creativity here is undeniable. The Got Tea? shirt is a flash of joy and whimsy, a piece of clothing that will spark a needed conversation about why we’ve been deprived of an Ice Cube-Ice-T mixtape for all these years. The time is now, gentlemen. Give the Hamburger Helper glove a run for his money.
