Food can mean many different things to different people. For some, it is merely a form of fuel; for others, it’s a lifelong love affair. Some make it their careers, and others are the designated chef of the household. Some barely have the skills to operate the microwave, and others are masters of cuisine. It spans the whole range of human experience.

If there is one thing that all these different types of people can (possibly) agree on, it’s that having a sense of humor about what we eat and how we prepare it can be beneficial. It helps soften the blow of the dashed hopes we had for our kitchen disasters, and it enables us to enjoy the tasty stuff even more. Cooking memes have multiple uses, but their most important one is providing those who cook and even those who don’t with a dash of temporary culinary entertainment.