Wears the beef

A meat training shoe as featured in the Meat After Meat Joy exhibition at the Daneyal Mahmoud Gallery, New York City. Full marks for artistic merit, we reckon Photograph: Public Domain

Looking for ideas for a children's party? This meat pirate ship is sure to impress parents and kids alike, and at a whopping 17,000 calories will keep the little darlings going all afternoon. You can see the full illustrated recipe here Photograph: Public Domain

A man had a dream, a dream of a full English breakfast served in a cocktail glass fashioned from bacon. This is the Meatini approaching completion. If you fancy one, you'll find all you need here on rathergood.com Photograph: rathergood.com

The finished Meatini with a mushroom umbrella, sausage swizzle stick and cherry tomato cherry. You can't really see them but there are ice cubes made from haslet in there too. Cheers! Photograph: rathergood.com

Rob Manuel spoke of drinking from the meaty cup in his Word of Mouth post on vegetarianism. Shades of Méret Oppenheim here at the Meat After Meat Joy exhibition at the Daneyal Mahmoud Gallery, New York City. Photograph: Public Domain

The daddy of meat apparel websites has to be hatsofmeat.com. The expression on this face framed by a natty meat helmet says it all - you've not seen it all till you've seen hatsofmeat Photograph: Hats of meat

Ribben Hood here looks chuffed to bits with his headgear. As hatsofmeat.com says, "one always looks neat in a hat made from meat". Not quite sure what the bailer twine's for, though Photograph: Hats of meat

The workmanship on this beef fedora is very impressive. hatsofmeat.com offers all sorts of useful advice on care for your meat hat - check their FAQ section Photograph: Hats of meat

Surf and turf in the style of an American Indian war bonnet. This one impressed the guys at hatsofmeat.com, who called it a 'tremendous display'. We love that the guy's wearing a suit with it Photograph: Hats of meat

And finally, managing to combine tripe and homemade salami to form a dubious cultural reference is this little number. Well done on the homemade salami, though Photograph: Hats of meat