A while ago we alerted you, dear readers, to knowledge that already lay waiting deep in your subconscious: the buildings we inhabit, vehicles we travel in and weapons we fight with are loaded with repressed sexual symbolism.

Well, as you’ve likely noticed the visual punditry can be extended to foods. Yes, many have made dirty jokes about bananas and sausages, but had it ever occurred to you that foods might symbolize female sexuality too? Well, in this edition of our weekly psychonanalysticle Freudian Fridays we’ll be biting into your subconscious banquet with these 12 Yonic Foods.

Pomegranate

Pink to light red on the outside, deep red and full of fragrant seeds on the inside. Did we miss anything?

Stuffed Peppers

Like the above, full of seeds and especially suggestive when sliced open, peppers look extra-yonic when stuffed with cheese.

Chicken

Their rounded, womb-like shape (often used for stuffing), makes chickens hella-yonic. Add to this the frequent jokes about thighs, legs, breasts, and the derogatory slang “chicks,” and we rest our case.

Burritos

Though sometimes phallic in form, the fact that burritos are filled with various foods that we can only taste by biting into them makes them quite yonic. Also, when over-full their phallic form tends to morph into more of a womb shape.

Tacos

So yonic we almost forgot to include them. Incidentally, we forgot to include clams.

Samosas

Again, shells filled with other things are always already yonic by virtue of their womb-like functioning. Samosas qualify especially for taking a less phallic, more vaginal triangular form.

Soufflés

Soufflés are totally the wombs of the culinary universe. They swell and swell until they’re about to pop, and that’s how we know they’re ready.

Pumpkins

Fleshy and a little hairy on their insides, these swelling squashes full of seeds are vaginal, womb-like and all kinds of yonic. (Could the practice of making Jack-O-Lanterns be a psycho-sexual masculine re-claiming of pumpkin at phallic knife-point? Discuss.)

Banana Splits

This may seem counter-intuitive (what with bananas being the phallic fruit par excellence), but the banana split is actually a radically yonic dish predicated on symbollic castration. The phallic shape is split in half (ouch!) and filled in with various sweets and dairy products (often in womb-like scoop forms).

Pears

With their soft flesh, womb-shaped pockets of seeds and hourglass silhouettes, pears have long been a symbol of female form.

Danishes

Light and crispy on the outside, soft, sweet and gooey on the inside. Need we say more?

Pain au Chocolats (or Chocolate Croissants to the layman)

Like the Danish bu more extreme, the pain au chocolat hides a delicious, decadent strip (or two) of sweet chocolate sauce inside its light and buttery womb-like form.

We’re a little hungry now.