223 - Marzipan Europe

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Candy isn’t usually applied to make political or geographical statements, but in this case marzipan, one of the more malleable confectioneries, has been transformed into a map of the European Union (of the EU25 period, before the accession of Bulgaria and Romania). This must have been done without a real map of Europe close by; if you can normally picture the continent as an abstract figure marching west (thanks to Italy’s boot), then this is a drunk abstract figure staggering towards the Atlantic.

The map was sent in by Michael Schrauzer and can be found here, quite aptly, in the Wikipedia entry for marzipan.

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Frank Jacobs loves maps, but finds most atlases too predictable. He collects and comments on all kinds of intriguing maps—real, fictional, and what-if ones—and has been writing the Strange Maps blog since 2006, first on WordPress and now for Big Think.  His map "US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs" has been viewed more than 587,000 times. An anthology of maps from this blog was published by Penguin in 2009 and can be purchased from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

 

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