Jaya Saxena is a correspondent at Eater.com, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing ... so they immediately recognized the posts and memes as coming from real life.

“At school and other institutional settings, American food was coalescing ... cuisine and its antithesis. Jokes and memes about colonizers’ bland-ass food resonate, and not because of their ...

Food is life, but also… kind of ridiculous. These funny food memes bring the laughs for anyone who’s ever burnt toast, cried ...

The tradition of the “groom’s cake” also spread from the American south (you may remember ... like Duff Goldman and his string of shows on Food Network, like Ace of Cakes and Cake Masters.