{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"341: Food and Horror, with Cuppycup","description":" Main Topic: Food and Horror To live is to require sustenance. Food is not only nutrition but usually a source of pleasure. But our relationship with food is complicated and filled with potential horror. Can we trust that what we eat is not tainted? What happens when our relationship with food becomes dysfunctional? Should we blind ourselves to the horrors of how our food is manufactured? And how do we react when humans find themselves on the menu? We touched on some of these issues in episode 182, on Disgust and Body Horror. Content Warnings After our episode on gore, we had some requests for content warnings when we discuss extreme or potentially upsetting subject matter. In this episode, we discuss contaminated food, coprophagy, factory farming, disordered eating, body dysmorphia, bullying, cannibalism, brain diseases, and parasites. Our Guest Host We are delighted to welcome Cuppycup back to the Good Friends! Cuppycup is the creator and producer of Ain\u2019t Slayed Nobody and Push the Roll with Ross Bryant, both part of the Push the Roll umbrella. His work in actual play has earned an ENnie Gold Award, Golden Lobe, AudioVerse Awards, and a place in the EN World Actual Play Hall of Fame. Across his shows, Cup blends horror, comedy, and sound-rich production, with a special love for Call of Cthulhu and stories where bad decisions only make things better. He can be heard as a player on Push the Roll with Ross Bryant. Find him on pushtheroll.com or via Instagram or Bluesky. Links Things we mention in this episode include: Hannibal Lecter Food science Food marketing towards children The Stuff (1985) Corned beef in the UK Parasite (2019) Angel Heart (1987) Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) Rosemary\u2019s Baby (1968) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Plateau of Leng Paul Rozin\u2019s research on disgust Horse meat in frozen lasagne Pan\u2019s Labyrinth (2006) Spirited Away (2001) \u201cThe Devil and Homer Simpson\u201d The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Se7en (1995) Dawn of the Dead (2004) Mounjaro Thinner by Stephen King Gut biome Y\u2019all of Cthulhu Lines and veils Alive (1993) The Platform (2019) Ravenous (1999) Prions Kuru Lab-grown meat Factory farming To Go for Unknown Armies No Country For Old Men (2007) \u201cThe Killing Floor\u201d from The Magnus Archives The Jungle by Upton Sinclair \u201cThe Midnight Meat Train\u201d by Clive Barker \u201cThe Rats in the Walls\u201d by HP Lovecraft Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica Warhammer 40,000: Imperium Maledictum \u201cThe Meat Trade\u201d from World War Cthulhu: London Into the Darkness \u201cBlackwater Creek\u201d from the Call of Cthulhu Keeper Screen Pack Berlin \u2013 The Wicked City Peter K\u00fcrten Beyond the Mountains of Madness \u201cThe Lengian Job\u201d on Ain\u2019t Slayed Nobody \u201cSaturnine Chalice\u201d from Dead Light and Other Dark Turns The Two-Headed Serpent Midsommar (2019) \u201cLife Ceremony\u201d by Sayaka Murata Tapeworms for weight loss My Best Friend\u2019s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix American Horror Stories The Ugly Stepsister (2025) Faecal transplants The Blasphemous Tome \u201cLa Cena\u201d from Kult: Screams and Whispers The Menu (2022) Hannibal \u201cGoblin Market\u201d by Christina Rossetti Arthur Rackham\u2019s illustration of Christina Rossetti\u2019s \u201cGoblin Market\u201d The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim Dracula by Bram Stoker \u201cPhantasms\u201d from Star Trek: The Next Generation \u201cOne Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish\u201d from The Simpsons \u201cFour Hours to Reno\u201d by Graeme Patrick Raw (2016) \u201cTransistor\u201d from This\u2019ll Make Things a Little Easier by Attila Veres Pica Swallow (2019) Yellowjackets Break Today for Unknown Armies The Boys Poltergeist (1982) News Thanks for A Weekend With Good Friends As we wrap up another Weekend With Good Friends, we would like to thank all the lovely people who made it happen. The convention organisers and staff did a staggering amount of work behind the scenes to ensure everything went smoothly. PT, Sue and Mike handled the organisational and technical work that underpins the entire convention, creating and maintaining code that handles everything from game signups with localised times to the lottery system that assigns places in games. Without their efforts, the convention simply would not have happened. Miranda and Nate organised and ran the panels, sorting out guests, handling the technology on the day, and ensuring it all went onto YouTube after the event. This year, these panels included two live episodes of the Good Friends, which will go out in edited form on the podcast feed in July, and we couldn\u2019t have done them without Miranda\u2019s help and expertise. Our wonderful volunteers and moderators helped tirelessly throughout the weekend, ensuring people got into games and that vacancies were filled quickly. Thank you to Dave, Wishmoon, AnalogFrog, Martin, Mav, Chris, and anyone I may have missed for answering tickets, offering advice, and generally providing moral support. And I would also like to thank all of you who joined us this weekend, whether as a GM, a player, a panellist, or if you read a story on the bar stage. A convention is only as good as the people who attend it, and this was as wonderful a collection of attendees as we could have wished for. Tools of the Trade The book that cost Matt many sleepless nights and at least 1D20 points of Sanity has been announced! Tools of the Trade will be out later this year, containing the fruits of countless hours spent picking through old catalogues from the classic Call of Cthulhu era and converting the entries into gameable items. For Whom the Taco Bell Tolls Scott recently did a reading for our good friends at the Titterpigs podcast, relating Scott Joest\u2019s sanity-blasting burrito experiences at Chaosium Con 2026. Check it out below or on their podcast feed. ","author_name":"The Good Friends of Jackson Elias","author_url":"http:\/\/blasphemoustomes.com\/","html":"