This slop sign got us thinking that restaurants should provide warnings before serving cilantro. Something that gets the point across, "Stop! Meal contains cilantro!" It would be designed to slow you down and make you think twice about what you're about to get yourself into - like opening the safety cap on a bottle of medicine and pulling all the cotton out. You think, "what's in this bottle again? Do I really need to do this?"

In some cases it's like breaking the glass in front of a fire extinguisher and setting off the alarm. It says, "there's no going back beyond this point, that's why we're making you break glass first." If you're willing to go all the way and break the glass then it's a real emergency. At that stage you're wholly taking on the responsibility for both a loud fire alarm and pieces of glass all over the floor. It says you know what you're getting into and it symbolizes a point of no return.

It's also like the pop-up button on the cap of a Snapple bottle. On release the button is saying, "you're in it now. You've made the commitment. Enjoy your slop."