Useful for situations where you are on the losing end of a wager involving the consumption of one's cranial apparel.

Comes in a variety of flavours and forms including baseball caps, berets and sombreros.
-- hidden truths, Aug 11 2005

Edible Hats http://www.thescrea...2-2/hatsofmeat.html
Might want to cook first though. [skinflaps, Aug 11 2005]

Eating crow, hat, words, heart and dirt. http://www.worldwid...rticles/eatcrow.htm
Five course chinese banquet! [calum, Aug 11 2005]

Carmen Miranda https://www.ebar.co...ture/movies//228900
... sporting her chapeau d'apéritif. [Amos Kito, Aug 12 2005, last modified Apr 16 2021]

Make a rice paper hat. http://www.foundati...ps/illeatmyhat.html
Similar to this idea, but only referring to one sort of hat and sounds as though it would taste terrible. [hidden truths, Aug 14 2005]

Is it made of beef jerky?
-- skinflaps, Aug 11 2005


A Pork Pie Hat?
-- etherman, Aug 11 2005


It would provide a convenient landing pad for flies and other airbourne insects.
-- skinflaps, Aug 11 2005


Coming next: edible crow.
-- DrCurry, Aug 11 2005


As per calum's link.

"to eat one’s hat, expressing one’s complete confidence in the outcome being described"

Well [HT] I'm looking forward to it (please provide evidence)
-- skinflaps, Aug 11 2005


I should probably have gone with my gut feeling and written "If you bake this, I will eat my hat" instead. Would you like me to post you a half-digested hat [skinflaps]?
-- hidden truths, Aug 11 2005


Same material as edible panties?
-- Eugene, Aug 11 2005


This hat is made out of a high-starch dehydrated custard.
-- joeforker, Aug 11 2005


Three things:

1) I love the phrase "I'll eat my hat" and similar phrases, like "I'll be a monkey's uncle."

2) I love the term "cranial apparel."

3) I love the idea of an actual edible hat. Beef jerkey sounds great. Now, if we can only find a way to actually become a monkey's uncle.
-- Machiavelli, Aug 11 2005


zt: crow is, of course, edible, just very bitter. Much the same flavor as humble pie, I imagine.
-- DrCurry, Aug 11 2005


//Nope, looks like the monkey's uncle dream is out the window.//

Geeze, news like that should be given a little more gently, [tom]!
-- Machiavelli, Aug 11 2005


I dunno. Chickens eat bugs and all sorts of things, and they taste pretty good to me. I think this has more to do with early man domesticating the animals that tasted good, and leaving the rest alone.
-- DrCurry, Aug 12 2005


This is fairly widely known to exist, based on google: edible hats -halfbakery.

Why shouldn't this be MFD/E, just to be fair?
-- oxen crossing, Aug 14 2005


Looking throgh the search criteria that you suggested, I found one genuine instance of a hat that could be eaten, which I had already found in a preliminary search before posting this idea. I had decided that the web-site that you are presumably talking about (link), was considerably more limited than this idea.
-- hidden truths, Aug 14 2005


"Nacho, nacho man. I want to be a nacho man!"

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-- contracts, Aug 14 2005


Well, yeah, and a bunch of other sites that looked good on google, but turn out to be either cakes (unwearable), or refer back to the one site you point out.
-- oxen crossing, Aug 15 2005


To be fair [oc], I suppose you could wear a cake. It just wouldn't be advisable.
-- hidden truths, Aug 16 2005


//This is fairly widely known to exist// - It is? I think that anything that returns less than ten proper hits on google is pretty esoteric.
-- wagster, Aug 17 2005


Not really widely known. Lord knows i've never heard of it, and I must spend 30 hours a day on the Internets.
-- shapu, Aug 17 2005


I don't know how you come up with //10 proper hits//, but whatever. I hereby retract any fledgling objections I may have been incubating regarding this idea.
-- oxen crossing, Aug 17 2005


Well, I think that the edible hats that show up on google are all food that is prepared to be eaten, but is hat-shaped. This idea, on the other hand, is based on hats that you wear around town (perhaps jauntily, if it suits), that just happen to he edible as well.
-- shapu, Aug 17 2005


Precisely. Google will almost always return something, a proper hit is one that refers to what you intended. There are about 225,000 results for 'Edible hat', less than ten of which refer to a hat that you can wear and eat (ok, I haven't checked them all). There are about 166 results for '"Edible hat"', the first of which brings you right back here.
-- wagster, Aug 17 2005


[shapu], jaunty wearing of an edible hat is recommended, maybe even mandatory.

[longshot], that sounds like a pretty fine idea that I would probably vote for. You should post it.
-- hidden truths, Aug 20 2005


My edible hat is a secret, so you have no way of knowing whether it is edible or not. In fact you have no way of knowing it exists. These matters are for me alone.
-- wagster, Aug 20 2005



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