‘Yogurt dipped Pringles’: A subreddit encouraging terrible home cooked meals is the last authentic place online to be yourself

So much of my social media feed is food. It’s home cooks whipping up «easy» recipes that look like they would take me two hours to complete. Perfectly-coiffed girls saunter off to pilates and sip on health-optimized smoothies. Mothers make ginormous batches of breakfast sandwiches for their hordes of children. All of it seems almost …
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30 Hot Dog Memes for Coney Island Fans Craving a Nathan’s Famous

Spring is officially here, and you know what that means? It’s time to practice grilling hot dogs for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend. Every American city has a very different idea of what a hot dog should be. I’m mostly talking about New York and Chicago because those cities will tell you when you’re wrong …
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‘Someone came into the store and ordered 47 double quarter pounders’: Fast food manager demands employees don’t leave breakroom during breaks, faces consequences of their compliance

In any job, but especially the thankless, minimum wage kind, break time is a sacred space. It’s an all-too-short period where you get to ignore the hustle and bustle of work, put your feet up, grab a bite, and have some of that precious screentime (we all know that breaktime phone is a close second …
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‘Go in sick and call in an anonymous health department complaint’: Fast food boss says he will fire dishwasher if he calls in sick on more time despite employee only calling in 2 times

If you’re a certain kind of person, nothing is more stressful than calling out of work. Odds are you already feel bad physically, that’s why you’re calling out. Then comes the added stress of having to tell your boss that you won’t make it in. Hopefully, they’re understanding, but it might put them in a …
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Consuming Consumerism: How trendy TikTok foods are actually gross, greedy, and anti-culinary

Scrolling on TikTok can sometimes feel like sifting through a sea of consumer products, from skincare to home decor to whatever the TikTok shop has decided to sell to you. Watching someone bite into a sandwich or sip a drink can feel like a satisfying break from that constant salesmanship. In reality, though, it’s just …
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‘The shift in McDonald’s vibe from 90’s to today captures everything wrong with society’: Paltry McDonald’s PlayPlace features only 2 screens and 2 chairs for kids to play with

If you were a child of the ’90s or the 2000s, there’s a good chance you have some vivid memories in the hallowed tubes of a fast-food playplace. I remember playing in the Chick-fil-A playplace with my friends after finishing our Winnie the Pooh KIDS performance and telling the other kids there that our names were …
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24 Instant Ramen Memes for Foodies in a Committed Relationship With Their Microwaves

Instant ramen noodles… a true delicacy among college students and several different socioeconomic backgrounds. Why is it that the chemical «soup base» and freeze-dried noodles are so delicious? Well, our bodies love salt. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the sodium in food like Cup Noodles and Buldak ramen is off the charts… but, our …
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A 30 Piece Family Bucket Meal of Tasty Chicken Nugget Memes

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, second dinner, drunchies, midnight snack, brunch, whatever—chicken nuggets are always the answer! Just like pizza in NYC, even a «bad» batch of chicken nuggets are still good. They satisfy even when they taste like bland cardboard. And the dips!? Oh man. You really feel alive when you get to pick your …
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23 Funny Moments When Reality Did Not Meet Expectations

Sometimes you have to get back to the basics. It’s funny to see something fail. Just like we laugh at dudes wiping out when trying to ride a storage container lid like a snowboard down a hill, we will laugh when a Powerpuff Girl popsicle looks more like a yellow blob than a cartoon character. …
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25+ Soda Memes For Sprite Specialists and Coca Cola Connoisseurs

Where do they call it where you’re from? I hail from the Midwest, and some of the true Midwesterners call it «Pop,» though I never did. I’ve heard tell that they call everything «Coke» in Texas, even when it’s not Coke, but I’ve never seen that up close. And maybe some true freaks call it …
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