i'm not entirely certain it's not edited, and the thought of mass produced pierogi (as mentioned in another thread) did occur to me, but even then: it's still food

and knowing how this food behaves and is made, it almost looks like the maker intended the dough "covering" to be discarded like a wrapper, which stings even worse, i love this picture, it's giving me such exquisite pain..

perhaps the mass of them in specifically this bucket and my strong associations between buckets shaped specifically like that and trash buckets are feeding into this as well.. sitting in there all greasy, what once left the frying pan delicious and appetizing: now a mess, stewing in the doughsweat / grease slop at the bottom of the pierogi bucket..

or maybe im just really hungry for pierogi rn...