So i was watching a youtube video about old photos of Scotland that had been retouched and colourised, photos of Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh etc and in it this came up slap bang in the middle of the video:

https://i.imgur.com/ZJ9CWkf.jpeg

So it claims in 1890 there's a 3000 ton macaroni pie in the middle of Glasgow that 200000 came to view.

Now, i'm no mug and this ticks all the fake boxes but this video was passing this photo off as real.

I'm sure a quick google can resolve this but a part of me wants to go full Mulder and believe it.

So i figured i'd share the madness and choose to not immediately write it off just in the off chance someone had 2000 tons of cheese lying around Glasgow.

Anyway, mock on…

EDIT: To all the crazy doubters in this thread, ask yourself this, just why would any individual go to the trouble of generating a giant ai image of a 3000 ton macaroni pie in Scotland. You must be mad… 🤣

by AncientsofMumu

24 comments

  1. Almost had me up till the size in meters, kids today just aren’t aware of the prevalence of imperial measurements in previous centuries.

  4. No way that’s a real pie. It’s a pretty cool image though.

  5. Seems to stem from this article

    [https://allchronology.com/2023/12/14/the-macaroni-monolith-a-feast-for-the-eyes-and-the-hungry/](https://allchronology.com/2023/12/14/the-macaroni-monolith-a-feast-for-the-eyes-and-the-hungry/)

    And I would note the very last line….

    >there is always room for a little bit of **fantastical** feasting

    Look closely at the image.All the faces are blurred but the huge Pie is in focus?

    The middle front Saltire on a pole is coming through the Pie

    Is that actually Glasgow? I don’t live there but have my doubts

    Looks AI generated

  7. Sigh.. macaroni pie is on that list along with square sausage, scotch pies etc that you just can’t get south of the border (I’m not counting frozen shite from Morrisons or the Greggs frozen scotch pies).

  9. Each piece of macaroni is big enough for a person to slide through

  10. So the image just looks obviously fake to me. The quality isn’t high enough to realltly be able to point out many specific details that seem wrong and I think that’s kinda the point. I’ve seen a lot of AI-generated imagery and whether it’s trying to look realistic or artistic there’s always just a certain vibe about it that tips you off. It’s just a little uncanny.

  11. Is everyone here doing a bit? Have I lost my mind?

    People breaking down the image like it’s CSI. Examining pixel by pixel, and considering the invention of the macaroni pie.

    I can tell this is a fake image because it depicts a 3000 tonne pie.

  14. Is this a serious question? It’s very obviously AI generated.

  16. I’m always so disappointed when I try another bland tasteless macaroni pie that’s promises so much and delivers nothing 😞 I feel there must be a tasty one out there?!

  17. Am away to bed man. Canny believe this is actually being discussed. Yous aw been eating smacaroni pie?

  19. other than the clearly fake pie the buildings are also incredibly janky. obviously ai.

  21. If only they’d made it a Scotch Pie, then it would have been believable:-)

  22. Ha, just watched the same video, thought WTAF, found https://allchronology.com/2023/12/14/the-macaroni-monolith-a-feast-for-the-eyes-and-the-hungry/ and then bounced to this thread.

    Now, this wasn’t a Fisher and Donaldson macaroni cheese pie, so it’s clearly inferior in taste, even if it was superior in size.

    We live in an age of TikTok, BoJo, Fox News and Trump. This story is far too good to let mere authenticity stop it: we have a patriotic *duty* to dredge up old family stories about the michty muckle Glasgow pie.

    I had heard tell that it was a response to an earlier Scotch peh constructed in Dundee the previous year. A mighty 12ft high, it kept the Overgate slum kids fed for nearly a fortnight.

  24. If you really think someone wouldn’t generate an image of a 3000 tonne macaroni pie you should head over to r/weirddalle and see some of the shit people are posting there. People will ask AI to generate the most bizarre shit just for laughs and upvotes.

    Currently on the front page of that sub:

    Teletubbies after buccal fat removal

    Barney the dinosaur in some sort of Bollywood harem

    Various characters such as the Hulk, Goku, the Joker etc in a 90’s style cooking show making lean

    Why would someone go to the effort to AI generate images like those? Because they find it funny, that’s all there is to it.

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