Comments on: The Great L.A. Mystery Tattoo

By: Pep

Pep — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:03:51 +0000

Coming to this hella late but it looks like a really big Bagel Bite.

By: BJ Heinley

BJ Heinley — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:23:10 +0000

pizza sitting on a plate

By: MsKittyFantastico

MsKittyFantastico — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:18:23 +0000

I think it looks like a chocolate chip cookie! :) mmmmmmmmm!

By: Alyce

Alyce — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:42:59 +0000

@Glark: blerg! I thought it was a waitress with that tattoo, not a customer. Though it would be fun to keep such a database.

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:06:25 +0000

Maybe compose a “missed connections” add on craigslist? Surely someone she knows will read it, and the mystery will be over.

By: terryo

terryo — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:06:37 +0000

I’m a big Jimmy Buffet fan, dammit.

and I think it’s dirty hashbrowns, with sausage bits.

By: Glark

Glark — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:00:46 +0000

No one is a big Jimmy Buffet fan. NO ONE!

By: dmliddy

dmliddy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:27:39 +0000

Maybe she’s a big Jimmy Buffet fan, and the tattoo is from that song?

“I like mine with lettuce and tomato
Heinz 57 and French fried potatoes
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer”

Although there’s no pickle, or potatoes. Maybe it’s a bad rendering.

By: reb

reb — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:45:17 +0000

I feel like it has to be Cincinnati chili – spaghetti, chili, beans, cheese….side of ketchup.

By: pamie

pamie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:06:54 +0000

Maybe it’s her Last Meal menu.

By: mel

mel — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:20:30 +0000

It looks like spaghetti and tiny meatballs to me

By: JeniMull

JeniMull — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:23:32 +0000

My vote is a pastel – a Brazilian calzone-y kind of thing, filled with chicken or other meat. That could be grill marks on the outside.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:38:02 +0000

I still think it's a flammkuchen.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:30:57 +0000

I think it’s a Tommy Burger or one of those other revoltingly delicious L.A. chili burger things. Back in the 80s people got so obsessive about those things that I could totally see someone immortalizing one in a shitty tattoo.

By: Glark

Glark — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:47:47 +0000

In my experience restaurants do not keep a list of the components of their customers’ tattoos.

By: Alyce

Alyce — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:19:15 +0000

I think it’s a terrible tattoo of pizza, ketchup, and beer. But, more importantly, I’m wondering why you don’t just call the cafe and ask her. Honestly, I don’t even live in the same state, but if I knew the name of the joint, I’d have called myself.

By: Erica

Erica — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:44:15 +0000

Google Images just makes it worse. Now I'm wondering about this ad.

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:43:30 +0000

What’s really irksome about this tattoo is that it is SO FAMILIAR. I have seen this particular arrangement (glass of something, plate of something, ketchup in the background) before, in a specifically heinz-related context, and yet Google is no help!

So, uh. Maybe try thinking of old Heinz ads or Warhol prints? Because I know that tattoo is something I’ve seen before in non-tattoo media.

By: Louise

Louise — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:43:24 +0000

Maybe out of left field – okonomiyaki?

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:46:03 +0000

My first thought was a bagel with raisins or seeds, then maybe chocolate chip cookie. Neither of which have any business being next to a bottle of ketchup though.