We start playing with food in our childhood. Who didn't make mud pies and garnish them with dandelion flowers when they were little? For some, playing with food even carried on into adulthood. Food-related humor, after all, translates well into all languages and is relatable to many.
The Boys Who Can Cook Instagram page, with its 970k followers, is proof of that. The page posts memes about nonsensical culinary concoctions and generally absurd food-related content. Some of the pics might make you gag, and others might seem relatable, but the majority will probably elicit a chuckle or two out of you. So let us know your favorites by upvoting them!
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I did something similar, i cut a groove in a full dill pickle and added a hotdog. Was pretty good!
I have crayfish in my lawn. One "attacked" me while planting a tree. It was bizarre
Jeff is awesome! *grabs a ham and runs under the sofa with it*
To me it sounds like Jeff had a wonderful happy accident! You can never have too much ham! (Well I guess you could but I digress)
Food doesn't always make sense. Sometimes, it's intentional, and other times, it's just chefs and culinary enthusiasts trying to be inventive. Edible monstrosities are in a league of their own, but weird food trends can look (and actually be) gross and unnecessary as well. In 2019, the Serious Eats team revealed what then-popular dishes they would like to throw in the trash permanently.
They called out zoodles (zucchini noodles), cauliflower-everything (rice, steaks, pizza, gnocchi), hard seltzer, and using the word 'protein' when referring to fish, meat, tofu, and other substitutes. One of the more interesting answers was avocados. They've simply become too popular, one person said. And the new avocado in coffee trend might just be the proof we need.
I'd try it once as it's one of those foods that would be incredibly tasty but make me feel so sick after 😂
I make all my burgers on grilled San Francisco sourdough. It's amazing
Animorphs! I loved that series in high school, I should read them again...
In a law that defies geometry, you somehow get more sandwich diagonally
Load More Replies...*Visibly shudders, then clears throat, then screams* NOT ABOVE THE LAPTOP!!!! NOT WITH THE CHEESE DRIPPING OFF THE SIDES!!!!!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂 They definitely took this to the surgical unit in the hospital to get that slice!
As for 2024, National Geographic had some predictions about what might be popular this year. Among fancier ingredients, beans will apparently make a comeback. The Bold Bean Co brand has skyrocketed in popularity, bringing their sales up by 650%, as many people are looking for alternatives to avocado as a toast topping, and smashed beans are one of the top contenders.
Although comfort foods never go out of style, some of them can get an upgrade. Hash browns will supposedly make a comeback as chefs are looking for ways to make them stand out. Some top them with whipped cod's roe, and others with caviar or crab. Other notable toppings include sriracha mayo, parmesan, crispy onion, and nori flakes.
When we were kids mum used make us strip down in the backyard. She'd give us a pile of mangos to gorge on. When we were finished she would just turn on the hose and spray us down. Best way to spend an Aussie summer afternoon - playing under the hose with a belly full of mango.
It's in the same realm as eating watermelon at the beach then getting in the water afterwards to clean off 🌊🍉🙂🏖️
Load More Replies...That sounds WAY more relaxing than hunkering over the sink!
Load More Replies...Sir Terry Wogan (much loved radio 2 DJ and talk show host) always used to say that the only way to eat a mango was standing naked in the sink
I always slurp the stones over sink. And it doesn't matter how many mangoes I'm cutting up, ALL of the stones are mine
*bats a stone under the sofa* All but one!
Load More Replies...In the words of the late, great Terry Wogan, mangos should only be eaten naked whilst standing in the bath.
You haven't eaten a mango if your face and clothes aren't yellow
I think it's because in naff bread the end is the worst, but in good bread the end is the best part and you fight over it
Load More Replies...The crusts make the best piece of toast as you can smother it in so much butter!
And we cycle right round in history. Ever read/hear about in a medieval setting them using a "trencher" at the table? It was a slice of stale bread used to serve food on (instead of a plate). It would soak up any juices/sauce and after the meal could be eaten, tossed to the dogs, sold or given to the poor.
LoL or bread and dripping as a meal for the poor and/or servants
Load More Replies...I stick 'em in the freezer, and when I have enough, I make bread pudding.
You stole that from The South of the Border Billboard 😂🤣😅😆😁🤪 I-95
Load More Replies...Many absurd food trends come from TikTok. Like pink sauce. What's in this formerly viral concoction? Pink sauce includes dragon fruit powder, garlic, honey, sunflower seed oil, and chili flakes. The dragon fruit is the ingredient that gives the sauce its bright pink hue. Its creator was personal chef Veronica Shaw, who believed her product would withstand Internet backlash and controversies.
Aye but this is old school. I never hear people say "bubble and squeak" these days. Anyway don't Americans eat something called "sh*t on a shingle"?
Shlt on a shingle is an old term especially from the great wars where you had not great meat on not great hard bread because of rationing/low supplies for soldiers
Load More Replies...I'm British. England specifically. I have never ever heard someone speak like that. Must be a regional thing. Someone please tell me where that would be said.
I think it's someone taking the pisd out of what sounds like it might be. And doing it rather well I must say
Load More Replies...Apparently, I’m no longer British as I have no clue what this means….
To be fair, after hearing the rhyming slang, I am ready to believe anything.
I'm British and I've never heard this term or eaten it, must be something those pesky Londoners do
Oi! Watch it mate! Us Londoners don't talk like that…we talk proper, like. 😂
Load More Replies...I sen this to my science teacher, she loved it! She later used it in a classroom post (we were learning about the phases of the moon at the time.)
That's my shopping bag right there. Just been to the Ludlow Farm shop
Unfortunately, the FDA stopped its production due to safety and labeling concerns. But the sauce prevailed: in January 2023, Dave's Gourmet put it on store shelves. However, Shaw later claimed that the company tricked her and she was 'completely broke.' Walmart currently still sells the sauce.
Right until the toppings run right off the cut sides. Just use a 2nd rack.
Load More Replies...Cleaning that oven is going to suck so much.. needed aluminum foil.
Honestly, I’d still eat that in one whole bite even though it’s missing olives
Another pretty gross trend was food on countertops. One creator would pour sauces on her countertop and top it with meatballs, cheese, and pasta. What some dubbed a 'spaghetti hack,' others deemed utterly unsanitary. It makes you think of that time Robert Pattinson risked his life to make 'handheld pasta.'
I used them once in a Dr Who themed pasta I made. Red bowtie pasta, swirley blue sauce, mozzarella Adipose. I even set the table themed with all kinds of Dr Who stuff including sonic screwdriver silverware 😃
Hold up...is NY Style Pizza [the one true pizza] better with Snapple?
You have to serve it that way by law in Brooklyn, The Bronx and parts of New Jersey.
Load More Replies...We just can't get a decent pizza outside of NY. I'm notoriously picky about pizza and almost all of them have sweet sauce. It's gross. Sauce should not be sweet. The crust is never right and the cheese is cheap.
And it's still probably better than in most places in America. Ever tried Colorado style pizza? Do yourself a favour and don't.
Oh this must be near me. The baby burritos are approximately the size of a baby, so the jumbo ones must be this.
Those are burritos? Who could eat something this size, or even the size of a baby?
Load More Replies...Interestingly, some creators are pretty dedicated to making gross stuff in the kitchen on purpose. Like Dennis Lee, the owner of the blog Food Is Stupid. Lee features all kinds of absurd concoctions, from no-knead Gatorade bread to coleslaw popsicles and Pedialyte spaghetti.
Just curious, does your regular oven have a convection setting?
Load More Replies...Air fried is just overpriced oven. Which most of the houses have already.
Not everyone has a convection oven. And the air fryer doesn't heat up your whole house when you use it
Load More Replies...My Mum would disagree, it goes in the microwave. There may be a reason why I didn’t grow up to be a logical, reasonable human being…
When it's rock solid and isn't even scoopable, then yes. I did this too
Load More Replies...I once had the whole brick of ice cream for breakfast. That was one of the dark days of my life. Ice cream didn't help
What's more interesting is that professional chefs and food writers love Lee's content. Helen Rosner, an award-winning food journalist for The New Yorker, told Bon Appetit: "He knows how to make something beautiful and delicious, but he's just doing it with wackadoo ingredients. It's almost performance art."
Yes, but cherries can't be made to rhyme with hate
Load More Replies...Our Anatolian used to graze. Really graze and not just because he had a bad stomach or anything. He enjoyed it and would look for the best bits. My wife said it was a habit the breed picked up from watching sheep for thousands of years.
Load More Replies...Olive garden stoned is pretty great. Soup, salad, bread sticks... I know it's trash food but so delicious and so much.
I've never smoked pot but am 1000000% addicted to fettuccine alfredo.
These days, it would be Very good! great vegan cheeses...and the rest is veggies! :) Yum!!
??? Cheese is made from milk. Milk comes from cows. "Vegan cheese" isn't real
Load More Replies...And Lee's not alone in his gross kitchen escapades. The creator behind the social media channel Dr Ding's Molecular Cuisine is the Internet's mad scientist of food. With over 1.3M followers on TikTok, he produces similar content, but he veers more towards molecular gastronomy. He terrifies and impresses his audience with things like making butter from breastmilk or a knife out of tofu.
Good? It's freaking brilliant! If it's a Martin's long potato roll, it's perfection.
Load More Replies...Needs must, and all that. This is good wrapped in a flour tortilla, too.
Banana, peanut butter, honey & a little granola...yum!
Load More Replies...I had to look it up, but "Glizzy" is a slang term from rap for a Glock. It later got evolved to mean hot dogs, because apparently a hot dog is roughly the length of an extended magazine of a Glock (not a gun owner, so I can't confirm).
Load More Replies...Waffles. Use waffles to make PB&J. Or replace the butter and syrup with PB&J and eat with a fork. Either way, fargin' delish.
I sometimes wonder why some people spoil good food to get a pic to post on the internet. I wouldn't. (and to be honest, I find this one funny)
I just find this one irritating and not funny because of the waste of food
Load More Replies...Thats just dumb, the bowl is upside down. And the spoon goes on the bottom.
Yet neither creator aims to produce useful recipes for their audience. It's all irony and nonsense, just for laughs and giggles. In a piece where she tries to make sense of absurdist food content, Sarah Maxwell writes that this is one way people deal with the fact that the world ultimately makes no sense.
Will eat before my next blind date, you know, the woman with a grate (spelling intentional) personality.
I'd eat this :-D during the lockdowns i once grilled several garlic bulbs and had them with my meal instead of vegetables. I was in heaven, my stomach was absolutely NOT :-D
Might take a minute to chew through but I have faith in your abilities!
Load More Replies...Brings me back to grade school when kids would bring foil to school & dare you to bite down on your silver fillings with some
Load More Replies...Check the other edge. This is a typical, one-sided can with a pop-top lid. The label is upside-down.
Load More Replies...Mike beck answered question 1, I will answer question 2. That's gold leaf
Load More Replies...My dad made me lunch one day as a kid, it was a bowl of hot ketchup and water, which is apparently tomato soup...
??? this fine dining my friend what ever could you mean??
Load More Replies..."It's not clear that this kind of content is meant to have any deeper meaning than evoking feelings of humor, disgust, and morbid fascination," Maxwell wrote. "It seems like nothing in the world makes sense anymore, so naturally, untethered humor, humor without a meaning, has its appeal, and food provides a perfect canvas for the culinarily inclined artist."
Yeah but you're two cats and a girl. So you're an exception.
Load More Replies...The only good part are the fried onions on top. I'd rather just eat them out of the container - and it's possible I've actually done that before. ;)
Ugh. Hate it. I tried making it with steamed green beans rather than canned (canned green beans are totally inedible, too bitter and salty) even that wasn't enough to make it worth eating.
my dumb brain thought the picture was on a cliff, then that it was photoshop, then that it was taken from a weird angle. I want to say photoshop but honestly I don't have the computer skills to tell.
Load More Replies...So...you work at Costco until you can't stand it anymore, eat your farewell meal at the table and then jump off the edge just so you never have to go back to working at Costco again. I mean there's only so many times one can say "Welcome to Costco, I love you" before they snap (Idiocracy movie reference,lol😝).
Please tell me this photoshop. Because this like the end of the earth.
Uh, female here. Would totally grub that down for dinner, maybe a little more rare (and by little I mean a LOT more rare.. like blue rare)
If a boy invited me over and this was dinner I would start planning the wedding
Poor cow had to die so someone could over cook and underseason their flesh
Not if I pour it in a mug and slurp it down without a spoon.
Load More Replies...This made me nauseous for a moment. Actually, longer than a moment.
I got hooked on cornbread when I visited America. You just can't get it here. That or Corn Nuts. Boo!
If you're in the UK you can get corn nuts in Tesco
Load More Replies...Bowl has to be bread but then I don't think anything can say this dish whatever the hell it is in the first place
Oh my god. I used to like bologna when I was in grade school but not any more. This pic just turned my stomach.
The black olives in the picture are still green ones coloured with iron oxide.
My Grammy loved a Granny Smith apple with some cheddar slices. This might be good too!
Apparently there's actually appetizer recipes like this but they involve a few more ingredients. https://sodelicious.recipes/recipe/hot-banana-cracker-snacks/
Sounds like it could be good? We're trying this next time we get groceries.
The only thing I see wrong is the burger is overcooked, I like mine a bit pink.
What a horrible tile job. Looks like a third grader set it. Mmm Rueben and a bath
I have no idea what that color reminds me of, but I can smell it and almost taste it 😂
My pencil box in grade school looked and smelled like this. X
Load More Replies...This is refering to deep-fried comedy btw. Something that has had so many filters put over it, that it's unrecognisable
Was this actually about the food hotdogs? Or maybe... something else? My minds in the gutter today I guess.
Hotdog omelet or hotdog with bun with cheese and fried eggs. Diced dogs and potatoes
All I can say, as an adult, there's nothing wrong with 8am hot dogs any morning. Since I'm off tomorrow, I might actually have an 8am hot dogs this morning.
I've done this with Ramen before. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Load More Replies...Knew I should've picked up one of those $2 coffee makers at the garage sale. Could have a noodle-makin pot next to the actual coffee pot.
It is not, some of us prefer the sandwich with the borders ;)
Load More Replies...Oh for Dog's sake...you don't fold the balonga..balgney...(f**k it) baloney.
It is! Just add the popcorn as you eat it to prevent it got soggy
Load More Replies...I recall seeing popcorn on a beer cheese soup in WI. Not sure about this one though.
I do this with my oatmeal and peanut butter. Without the seasoning packet it might be worth a go
I tried making chocolate pasta once. Once. It was not great. Which reminds me, I still need to toss the leftovers...
This is the second weird banana thing I think I'm going to end up trying. Although maybe combine them and put the jalapeno on this...sandwich.
When I was an exchange student in the US, the kids of the family used to eat banana-mayo sandwiches. I always wondered if it was good but never enough to try.
Once at an Ultimate frisbee tournament someone dared me to put Nutella on a pickle and eat it. So now I how to ruin two good things at the same time.
Once at an Ultimate frisbee tournament someone dared me to put Nutella on a pickle and eat it. So now I how to ruin two good things at the same time.
