Woman finds Donald Trump's face in her tub of butter
"Pareidolia" is a fancy scientific word for finding significant objects in random images — like seeing John F. Kennedy's profile in this rock or George Washington in this Polynesian stone. However, someone in Missouri has a Virgin-Mary-in-a-grilled-cheese level case of pareidolia: She opened up her Earth Origins Organic Spread and saw a vision of the Republican presidential frontrunner.
Hermann Rorschach, the inventor of the inkblot test, might have had a thing or two to say about people who see Trump in everything.
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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.