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You don’t have to be Gordon Ramsay or Anthony Bourdain to like cooking. In fact, you don’t even have to like cooking to have a taste for cooking memes.

Because let me tell you that the culinary world is one of the biggest sources of absurdity, where anything that can go wrong will and where all common sense can be ignored. The result is high-quality entertainment, just like this Instagram page known as “Boys Who Can Cook.” Buckle up your seatbelt for some of the most random cooking memes that somehow speak to your inner occasional chef.

“Food is more than nourishment,” the pediatric dietitian and feeding expert Rachel Rothman, MS, RD, CLEC, who is also the owner of Nutrition in Bloom, told Bored Panda via email. Scroll down for Rachel’s insights about the significance of food in our culture, as well as why social media is obsessed with it.

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Jake B
Community Member
3 years ago

Now I’m hungry for a grilled cheese. This painting is incredible.

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    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    T5n
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I'm all for this

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    #3

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    Riani Kivela
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    This is actually the content I want from CNN. I would love to watch the news and be delighted.

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    #4

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    Meowmeow
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    They've got the beef (with each other) ... I'm so sorry. I'll stop.

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    #5

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    Dee on bikes
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    But there are enough warm parts to make it OK. I'm hungry now.

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    #6

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    Wendy Forrest
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Throwing live animals in boiling water is cruel and unnecessary.

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    #7

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    Meowmeow
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Why are you like that?!?

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    #8

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    Susan Green
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    It would be worth it.

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    #9

    Food-Cooking-Memes

    grapejuiceboys Report

    Shyla Bouche
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Oh, my sweet summer child!

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    #10

    Food-Cooking-Memes

    burgerkrang Report

    Meowmeow
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    AN EMERGENCY! Get the cheddar and the cheese grater STAT

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    #11

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    freakingbee (they/them)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    the flavor just hits different

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    #12

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    JoMeBee
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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    #13

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    Cat Chat
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Omg. I just can't.

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    #14

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    Little Lion
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    OMG

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    #15

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    let’s make a group, pandas against seedless watermelons and catholics

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    #16

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    Lakota Wolf
    Community Member
    Premium
    3 years ago

    BP censors let that pic slip through in the background of the meme XD

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    #17

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    JoJo Anisko
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    So true, the folded ones really do taste better.

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    #18

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    when i was a child i always showed off my sauce collection, pokémon cards are for suckers

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    #19

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    Meowmeow
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Avocados : we're good for exactly half a day Bananas: green then brown. Potatoes: see you in a few weeks 😎

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    #20

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    Papa Het
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    IT HAS HAPPENED

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    #21

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    Meowmeow
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Forget Pasta Roni we eating Pasta Rona tonight!

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    #22

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    Lakota Wolf
    Community Member
    Premium
    3 years ago

    🎶Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet - But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat🎶

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    #23

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    Mickysixxx
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I rarely eat breakfast. I'm more of a coffee and a cigarette kinda guy, its the breakfast of champions

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    #24

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    Onion Patch Petunia
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Chicken stup for the soul

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    #25

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    Meowmeow
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I need it!

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    #26

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    ah yes, ceaser salad

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    #27

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    the ketchup at the ankles makes it even worse somehow

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    #28

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    Mickysixxx
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Plastic cheese has its place and that place is usually around 3am

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    #29

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    Meowmeow
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    And they're matching ✨

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    #30

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    Meowmeow
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Cavemen circa dawn of humanity be like...

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    #31

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    Lakota Wolf
    Community Member
    Premium
    3 years ago

    The key is to look the waiter/waitress right in the eye while saying it and raise one eyebrow and speak in a serious tone. You just know the waitstaff thinks the names are as stupid as you do, we can laugh together XD

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    #32

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    Debby Keir
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    It's fishy that she's dead serious about this.....

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    #33

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    Daniel Atkins
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Does this person have an extra finger ? Inigo is looking for you.

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    #34

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    Jake B
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Dirty dog.

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    #35

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    Meowmeow
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Looks comfy but you know it's stale as fuuuk

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    #36

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Darth Mummus, if you will

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    #37

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    Elita One
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    You mean chickenless drumstick, that's not a wing.

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    #38

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    freakingbee (they/them)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    iT's CoRn

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    #39

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    Jeremy James
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Once, I was really mad at my partner, so I put an apple, some butter, and cinnamon into the oven to make the house smell like there was going to be pie. But there was no pie.

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    #40

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    you know it’s good when your partner goes digging for the plastic chicken leg that was mechanized so you could take a little bite out of it

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    #41

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    i don’t know how i feel about this being on a post about food

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    #42

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    Meowmeow
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Hot Pocket 🎶

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    #43

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    Daniel Atkins
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Well if chickens can do it.

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    #44

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    charsouperie board is what i always put out when i’ve got friends over

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    #45

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    Daniel Atkins
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Why does this look like it should be considered a crime?

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    #46

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    i’m not that jungry

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    #47

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    freakingbee (they/them)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    i love uncrustables

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    #48

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    JoMeBee
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    In my defense it's the middle of the night, but wtf am I looking at?!?

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    #49

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    Little Lion
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    If you like throwing up at midnight...

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    #50

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    MacFrog
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    And that's why so many people drink tomato juice on a flight when they can't even stand the stuff while on the ground.

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    #51

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    Linda van der Pal
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Y'all have grape jelly?

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    #52

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    Kise Miarse
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    But sadly - carbs *always* have my consent

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    #53

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    Onion Patch Petunia
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    People who put ketchup on spaghetti are beneath contempt

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    #54

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    Onion Patch Petunia
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    No. When I said package up and freeze I meant the food not you

    #55

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    Meowmeow
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    But do he got the sauce tho?

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    #56

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    SCP 4666
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Sweet teas are made of these, who am I to drink coffee

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    #57

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    Onion Patch Petunia
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Ever since Popeye left her

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    #58

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    GLENN GARDNER
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I went before we left home.

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    #59

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    Daniel Atkins
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Bean there done that now Olive this one alone.

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    #60

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    MadOrca99
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I am slightly disturbed by the template

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    #61

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    freakingbee (they/them)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    we wouldn't survive a day without our air fryer

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    #62

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    freakingbee (they/them)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    those eggs look delicious i must have them

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    #63

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    i haven’t seen allegra chicken in years

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    #64

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    Abby da great
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    F l a v o r t o w n

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    #65

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    mhubert10
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Except there is no protection to catch the mess

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    #66

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    what is happening in america, are you ok

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    #67

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    beans

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    #68

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    Raven Sheridan
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Aunt Jemima would totally kick yo a*s!

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    #69

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    Doctor Strange
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Allergen warning... may contain nuts.

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    #70

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    Unnamed Hooman
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Uh oh, Vince is coming to break your arms

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    #71

    Food-Cooking-Memes

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    Redpen88
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    TF is this crime against cuisine?

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    #72

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    Sheena Leversedge Wood
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I love baked beans. tasty, healthy, satisfying and nutritious. and lovely with grated cheese on top. on toast. on jacket potatoes, as part of a fried breakfast, all sorts. love them.

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    #73

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    Shayne Randlett
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Somebody get me an ax and a plane ticket, STAT!

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    #74

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    Unnamed Hooman
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Dyslexics be like

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    #75

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    Onion Patch Petunia
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    And it's all toppings. No dough

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    #76

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    RavenTheCat
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    yo i miss club sandwiches so bad

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    #77

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    Redpen88
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    🤮

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    #78

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    Onion Patch Petunia
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Chihuahua?

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    #79

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    Lola Rogers
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I have done this. Cold leftover steak. Yum.

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    #80

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    Unnamed Hooman
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I love cucumbers but I hate pickles, people are like “Why? They’re the same!” NO THEY AREN’T CANDACE. ONE WAS SOAKED IN VINEGAR FOR WHO KNOWS HOW LONG

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    #81

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    freakingbee (they/them)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    did it work??

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    #82

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    Ilyanna Gerzanich
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Why he look like a fish turned human?

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    #83

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    Your local pyromaniac
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    yes,i would even download a lasagna if given the chance.perhaps i will download a 3ft tall scottish man named mcglockencock who does my taxes for me

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    #84

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    Meowmeow
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Kendrick: " That's what I thought”

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    #85

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    Ilyanna Gerzanich
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I can already taste the blandness of that white rice and the texture. P.S its not enjoyable

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    #86

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    Onion Patch Petunia
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Then you put your left foot in and shake it all about

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    #87

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    but he’s bringing chili

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    #88

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    Abby da great
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    ok but who tf eats burgers with a fork

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    #89

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    Lakota Wolf
    Community Member
    Premium
    3 years ago

    I mean, at least this version of a reveal doesn't burn down half of California XD

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    #90

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    Mama Penguin
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Ooh smoked salmon. Yum.

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    #91

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    Hannah Prouse
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    M&M&M&Ms

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    #92

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    HelluvaHedgehogAlien
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Uhhh… Gee, thanks, I guess?

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    #93

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    Brian Leahy
    Community Member
    Premium
    3 years ago

    "Case idea" lol

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    #94

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    Me.
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Me, if I ever drink wine: it tastes wine like.

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    #95

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    i like raisins tho

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    #96

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    #97

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    Rylee Taylor
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    slightly used?? please elaborate.

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    #98

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    HelluvaHedgehogAlien
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I know it’s all added on flavorings and stuff and very little actual meat of any kind, but it’s so frickin good at 2 am in the morning, hiding under the covers and attempting to eat it without the cats killing me for my unspeakable crime of not sharing food.

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    #99

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    Onion Patch Petunia
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    That'll wake you up fast

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    #100

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    Cat Chat
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Ugh. Hate posts like this. I mean, if you don't offer up the inside joke, you're not being the funny person you think you are. Just text the only one other person in on the joke instead.

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    #101

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    Clay S.
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Hibachi? More like house fire

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    #102

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    Onion Patch Petunia
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Peter Piper packed a peck of peppery papers

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    #103

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    ramen coffee, but no one acknowledges the sausage?

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    #104

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    pov
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUCK

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    #105

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    Headless chicken
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I don’t understand

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    #106

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    Onion Patch Petunia
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Mystic Pizza?

    #107

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    Shayne Randlett
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    When you need snacks for your trip and you're in a rental car...

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    #108

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    Little Lion
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    FIZZY IN DA GLIZZY

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    #109

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    ƒιѕн
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    My go to meal

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    #110

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    Alexandra Davis
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Someone explain this to me!

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    #111

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    ОльхаКинг(AlderKing)
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    pb&jeggs, if you will

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    #112

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    Procrastinating....
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I know this is about Garfield, but it's gobbledegook!

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