There are very few things more relatable in life than food and cooking. After all, we all eat! There’s no way to get around that fact. That’s why it’s such a good topic for memes—it already resonates with people on a fundamental level.
Today, we’re featuring some of the most hilarious memes featured on the ‘Famished Club’ Instagram account. They’re witty, some of them hit a bit close to home (cleaning up after cooking, ew), and they’re making us hungrier than we care to admit. Scroll down to check them out, and remember to upvote your faves!
Bored Panda got in touch with the team behind the popular 'Famished' brand, and they were kind enough to answer our questions. Scroll down for our interview with chief executive officer Abhi Chatterjee and chief marketing officer Moses Albo.
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We were very curious to find out more about the roots of the 'Famished' brand. "The inspiration for Famished comes from growing up in an immigrant family where I watched my parents build a community through food," CEO Chatterjee told Bored Panda via email.
"Now, Famished leverages tech to help small restaurants engage directly with their diners, ditching hefty third-party fees. After all, we feast with our eyes first—Famished is your go-to for culinary inspiration and your next food adventure."
Meanwhile, CMO Albo had this to say about the inspiration behind the meme-focused Instagram account. "We love food and we love memes, the decision was only natural. Memes are the voice of our generation, it’s how we communicate. What better way to merge both than creating a place on Instagram for us to laugh about food."
According to Albo, food and cooking memes resonate with so many people because it's such a fundamental part of our lives. "Everybody has got to eat! Who doesn’t like food? Name one person on this planet who doesn’t like food."
Albo told Bored Pand that "only the dankest memes survive," adding that the internet users following 'Famished' are also big fans of 'deep fried' and vegan memes.
We were curious to hear what advice the 'Famished' team would give someone who's completely new to cooking and having a hard time. Chatterjee, the CEO, had this to say: "Start with easy dishes to build your confidence. Read the recipe first—it’s like a mini roadmap for your cooking adventure."
In the meantime, if things don't turn out 'perfect,' we really shouldn't worry. "Every meal is a chance to learn something new or an opportunity to make fun of yourself! Learn the basics and remember, cooking is more about having fun and experimenting. So, turn up your favorite songs and enjoy the process," Chatterjee said.
Speaking as a Brit, mushy peas are disgusting but they are NOT that colour!
Also speaking as a Brit, I like ‘em, but no they are definitely NOT that color.
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Speaking as a Brit - our mushy peas are disgusting but they are NOT that colour!
I like fish and chips (if the brown thing in the back is breaded fish?). But why would you want to eat it with peas in the first place, let alone with peas that look more like algal bloom?
Nowt wrong with this! Proper grub and no mistake! Maybe add a round or two of bread and butter to make a mushy pea buttie, also to mop up the plate when finished.
Yeah, I'm from the UK and that's disgusting. I think it's a northern thing. And those peas look totally unnatural.
Definitely a Northern thing, I was born and raised in Lancs. Those peas look like someone added food colouring though, regular mushy peas are more a khaki green colour.
Load More Replies... I love mushy peas. Those aren't mushy peas, they're some radioactive sludge.
Did they add food colouring? That's the only way to make mushy peas look like that.
I've never seen mushy peas that bad/gross ever, but I have this (image) colour frequently. The ones above look like partially melted dark green crayons. UGH. british-mu...9589e4.jpg 
This one also has a dose of food coloring. That's not the colour of Marrowfat peas. As someone says above, they're much more like a khaki color than mint ice cream color.
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That is the color of the relish that folks in Chicago put on their hotdogs. In California it is pickled colored.
Is that what mussy peas look like? Oh well I think it will taste good
Oy vey this looks like a crime against humanity. The fries look like dried wood and the peas look radioactive. And what's this turd next to it, a breaded sausage? Blech
Britain, are you okay, is bangers and mash the only thing that looks nice in that country, (as a aussie, Bangers and mash are the best tbh-)
someone once said the British went all over the world collecting spices, brought them home and never used them
It almost looks like beans, maybe baked beans, that have been drowned in green food coloring.
OMG! That looks DISGUSTI... Oh, wait.. they're peas? OMG! That looks DISGUSTING!!!!
Even pistachio ice cream never had such a color in the past when colorants were used liberally. I have no idea which vegetables can give such a dark green color, but it doesn't seem very natural. Replace that green stuff with apple compote and I'd like it.
The ‘Famished’ project is quite well known on social media. On Instagram, the company’s account boasts 189k followers. Meanwhile, another 17k internet users follow its page on Facebook. Though the company itself deals with food delivery orders, it uses its social media presence to brighten up everyone’s day with funny memes. And these pics are iconic! You’ve likely seen them pop up on your social media feed at some point.
Luck plays a massive part in any content going viral on the internet. Though experience with content creation can help you notice trends and shifts in popular culture, it’s still impossible to know for sure which pics your audience will resonate with and which ones will get ignored.
With that in mind, the more consistent you are with your posting schedule, the better your chances of slowly building up a following.
Even great memes can end up being sidelined because your fave social media platform’s algorithm got an update or you simply shared your post while your core audience was asleep or distracted.
However, there are some things that you can do to improve the quality of your memes to up your chances of getting them noticed in the vast expanse of the World Wide Web.
Something that all content creators should focus on is visual clarity and fluency. Memes tend to work best when they’re punchy and compact. So, you want to use high-quality images and easily readable fonts.
On the flip side, if you go for low-quality (‘noisy’) pics and overly complex fonts, your audience might simply skip past your meme because it takes too much effort to understand what’s going on.
Similarly, if your memes have walls and walls of text in them, you’re probably going to lose the majority of your audience. Not many people have the time or attention span to read long chunks of text when the main point is for the pic to be lighthearted and comedic.
The shorter the text, the clearer the message—the better. At the core of memes lies the idea of shorthand communication. Longform content is generally antithetical to meme culture.
Well Japanese cheesecake is the absolute bomb so I can't even begin to imagine these pancake pillows!
I guess that was before olive oil got so expensive you can only find it in jewelry stores. In Greece, the prices have gone through the roof in the last year!
Though posting memes is supposed to be all about fun, it’s easy to get burned out if you look at it like a full-time job. It really helps if you enjoy the topic that you focus on in the content. Your audience is also likely to notice that passion. Meanwhile, if you’re only posting things for the likes, views, comments, and engagement, you might struggle to keep it up in the long run.
If you care about standing out from the crowd online, then you should spend a bit of time researching your competitors. Look at the type of content that the biggest meme social media accounts post.
What formats are the most popular right now? What memes do internet users tend to react the most positively to? In short, try to do things at least as well as your competitors… but embracing innovation and improving on what they do is a great way to carve out a niche for yourself.
Even though our sense of humor might change over the years and decades (have you tried looking at some memes from the 2010s recently?), some topics will always be in vogue.
Food, work problems, parenting challenges, relationships, money worries, chronic exhaustion, nostalgia, and rewarding ourselves with little snacks—these are all core parts of the human experience. They won’t be going anywhere, even as the world around us changes.
Ooh, the spicy fries, hot and crispy, super salty… damn, now I’m hungry too…
Memes will survive as long as there are people who share popular ideas, opinions, and cultural attitudes with one another. But the format of those memes is bound to change time and time again.
So, even if we’re still laughing at food memes 20 years from now, they’re likely to look very different. Who knows, we might all be chuckling at how our fully sentient AI-powered personal chefs refuse to cook anything that’s bad for our health, so we have to hide our cheeky snacks from them!
Even when living alone I would never do that! I'd eat the whole damn block of cheese.
Which of the memes featured in this list did you find to be the most deliciously funny, Pandas? What do you do when faced with a huge pile of dirty dishes after trying out a new recipe? What’s the last dish that you made that you’re genuinely proud of?
We can’t wait to hear what you have to say. Share your thoughts in the comments.
I don't know how this person came to this conclusion, but they are absolutely right.
I could do this when I was a teenager. These days, not so much XD
Yes, it's disturbing, but why are there skewers in it?? Were the Lilliputians hurling spears at it to try and kill it??
Yep, every single set of these found anywhere will have a set of bite marks in them.
Mmm diced cilantro. Now gimme my carrots and jalapeños with the green sauce
Ever look in your fridge and theres nothing good in there so you lower your snackspectations and eat like a slice of cheese and a single grape
Yep. Or when you slice up the strawberries thinking it's going to last all week and then 15 minutes later there's no berries left.
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Some of these are funny, but these are POSTS, not memes. Please learn the difference, BP!
Ever look in your fridge and theres nothing good in there so you lower your snackspectations and eat like a slice of cheese and a single grape
Yep. Or when you slice up the strawberries thinking it's going to last all week and then 15 minutes later there's no berries left.
Load More Replies... Some of these are funny, but these are POSTS, not memes. Please learn the difference, BP!
