Fridge / Sausage Party

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Fridge Brilliance

• The food items swear so much because the employees do it so casually. They probably just think that's how people normally speak.
• Douche starts killing and drinking liquor bottles after sucking dry a damaged box of grape juice. Since the grape juice had been in that state well before the plot started, he'd most likely fermented into a cheap wine.
• Considering how it was the Non-Perishables who wrote the "Great Beyond" song, it can be seen in hindsight as Suspiciously Specific Denial on their part. With lines such as "where we're sure nothing bad happens to food", "we're sure there's nothing shitty waiting for us in the Great Beyond" and "they won't squeeze us out their butts".
• The extreme preoccupation with sex demonstrated by pretty much every significant character makes more sense if you consider that their actual function as food products is to satisfy basic biological urges. They have no need or inclination to ingest anything themselves - indeed, it took Douche nearly "bleeding" to death for him to even realize it was possible to do such a thing - but the built-in subconscious urge (death wish?) to slake physical appetite is still there. So in the absence of an instinct to eat or drink, they can't help but heed the equally-primal yearning for sex, or (in the immortals' case) the addict's urge to get stoned.
  • This makes Douche's eventual madness and addiction to consuming other food items even more understandable. He was never meant to consume anything, and doing so is literally poisoning him slowly.
• Sammy Bagel Jr. and Kareem Abdul Lavash are both named after African-American celebrities who converted to their respective religions (Judaism and Islam) from Roman Catholicism. This may be foreshadowing for the fact that they do have some common ground despite their differences, being friends with Hummus, and end up hooking up in the end.
• Part of why the humans were so openly murderous and hostile during the grocery store battle scene wasn't just the shock of witnessing talking food, but likely because they were all high on bath salts. Bath salts is often stereotyped as causing highly aggressive and irrational behavior.
• Douche consuming other products isn't just a way of showing his descent into madness. It's a way of symbolically proving him to be just as much of an antagonistic force as the Gods. The Gods (as humans) are the only ones who actually need to eat anything to survive, and by doing the same, Douche claims his godhood. And, appropriately, it's after claiming godhood that he and Darryl are then defeated and killed.
• Teresa del Taco being a lesbian is very fitting since "taco" is also a euphemism for female genitalia.

Fridge Horror

• …So what will the food do when the police come? Think about it, there was just a whole (foods) massacre at the Grocery Store with nearly no survivors, and any survivors that were there were high on bath salts. Even if the police (rightfully) dismiss the final battle as a simple drug fueled riot, there would still be an investigation and mass destruction of all the stock inside the store (due to contamination) and the store would be up and running in a few months (if not torn down from the controversy that will arise from this incident). At best the Foods will have to have a mass exodus from the store with barely any notice with definite casualties occurring in the escape and journey to any safe place possible, if there is any. At worst, due to overconfidence, the Foods will try to fight the police and end up on the wrong end of a Glock 22 pointed by a squad of drugged up police officers and will either go back to the previous option of running for their lives or being slaughtered to the last crumb. Esoteric Happy Ending at its finest folks.
• With weed being a plant, wouldn't they be smoking living beings? Therefore, making them worse than the humans due to BURNING THE WEED AND INHALING THEIR REMAINS!?
  • Who the hell is selling weed to the items in the grocery store? Maybe its four dimensional weed that's completely different from what we'd recognize.
  • The bath salts didn't exhibit any signs of sentience or protest their molten demise, so possibly illegal stimulants are exempt on the grounds that they're not a commercial product.
• If all food is sentient in this film, what about food made from food, like stew or bagged salad mix? Would they have multiple consciences? Or would they be a fusion of dead food parts?
  • Brenda and the other buns are all processed foods made out of other ingredients. Similar foods can be found throughout the store. Their sentience and personality seems to emerge out of the intention and external branding emerging out of their creation. When any food becomes digested by a human, they presumably lose consciousness at some point in the process of digestion and then integrate into the humans body. Multiple consciousnesses would, in this way, be routinely molded into new containers or forms, losing any sense of their prior selves.
• That cookbook illustration which Frank uses to try to shock sense into the other groceries could have been even worse, if you think about it. At least the hot dog and the bun it lay in were lucky enough to have each other to cling to, albeit in terror, when their doom was upon them: after all, very few people eat cold, uncooked hot dogs for July 4th. By rights, the sausage should have been charcoal-grilled alive before being placed into the bun, adding grief for her tortured-to-death lover and forced necrophilia to the horrors which the latter would've endured, as she met her own demise.
  • She herself could have been toasted, too.
• What exactly are humans supposed to eat if food is sentient? The only options for humans in this universe may be murder or starvation.
  • The ending of the film still has an Inferred Holocaust nature to it. No matter which side of the battle between humans and food ends up "winning," it's a Downer Ending regardless. If humans win against the food, it means the continued enslavement and torture of food through no fault of their own. And any scenario where humans "lose" inevitably means the end of both groups; humans are not only dependent on food to survive, but without humanity, the food will inevitably rot and perish into extinction. That paired with the initial hostility (and the fact that communication between the two groups is only possible when humans are on bath salts) makes any type of resolution or compromise incredibly difficult, if not impossible.
• It's very possible that there were human children in the store during the massacre at the supermarket...did they also get slaughtered and stuffed into the freezers with their parents?
  • Highly unlikely, seeing as there was no actual human children present in the film and especially during the climatic massacre.
• The British teabags in the "Great Beyond" song are there for a quick gag but still offer some Fridge Horror. Considering how people cook tea and how teabags react to water, their fate would basically be the equivalent of being waterboarded in a vat of boiling acid!
• The food in this supermarket have come to terms with the fact that The "Great Beyond" is a farce by the movie's end, but what about every other grocery store on the planet whose failed to come to this realization and are still under the assumption that paradise awaits them?
  • Or, alternatively, the other grocery stores never embraced the myth of the Great Beyond due to not having anyone as ingenious as Firewater around. Meaning that to this day, those foods still live their lives in abject horror of the fate that awaits them.
• Did foods that are children like baby carrots participate in the food orgy?
  • Assuming that any of them are still around in the store itself by the time the food orgy happened.
    • "Baby" carrots are not actually young carrots; they are simply small carrots. Perhaps they are seen as the food equivalent of "little people" and would likely be grown adults. See also "sweet midgets".

Fridge Logic

• If knives and ladles are inanimate, how come lightbulbs and douches are animate? Where's the line between inanimate object and living thing? (Or animate inanimate object?)
  • The animate objects appear to be all things to are consumed.
  • Does that imply that prescription medications are faced with a similar ugly fate, albeit perhaps less gruesomely as they're usually swallowed whole and not cooked first?
• Did none of the supermarket employees ever purchase and consume any of the food while on the job?
  • Not outside the break room, apparently.
• For that matter, how come the products never caught sight of somebody taste-testing a grape from a bunch of them on the sly, or a bratty toddler stuffing an unpaid-for candy into his or her mouth when the adults aren't looking?
  • It's possible they never associated anything that happened inside the store with the great beyond. Every human is considered a God, and they're used to the Dark Lord picking off random food items. They probably just assumed it was karmic punishment to go out like that as opposed to making it to the great beyond. When all the humans freaked, it was like the gods turning on them en mass.

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