/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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Meme is a misnomer, the weak minds of the Zoroastrian cleaning products board mean "viral." In this sense, "meme" foods are the ones that are popular through a vitalization of their aesthetic components. The base attitude of the board is "outcast exceptionalism", meaning that anything that is mainstream becomes instantly anathema because the function of the board is to preserve "outsider taste" unique. If something is not obscure or esoteric or arcane or shocking to the common taste, then this identitary device loses its ability to establish a difference between the "us" and "them and, thus, loses its capacity to make the user feel special or unique. Given that most people here have very little going for their lives, they need to feel they they are superior at least by capitalizing untapped cultural landscapes, mirroring the logic that being the lonely king of a tiny island is preferable to being a below-average peasant in a rich kingdom.
"Meme food" then is anything that has been widespread and that has a status symbol attached to it, that is, that is has a cool factor that makes it viral. /ck/ likes fast food because, although it is popular, it is looked down upon. "meme food" is aything that /ck/ feels it threatens its cultish nerd superiority status.