At every trade show we go to, there are always those efforts that become tiresome, boring or simply fall flat. The Fancy Food Show didn’t have many of these, but we still noticed some things that left our stomachs grumbling (and not in a good way!).

It seemed as if everywhere we looked, we were being cornered by some furry mascot which may, or may not have had anything to do with the product they were trying to sell. Some of them were cute, some were disturbing, but all become repetitive and recycled in the end. Here are just some of the strange costumes we saw on our journey: