The Best Food Memes of the Week (September 8, 2026)

Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor

Sep 8, 2026 3:45 PM EDT

It's time to feast on some memes.

You never realize how much of a food snob you are until you eat at a mediocre restaurant that everyone else claims is great. You have to have eaten some good pasta and pizza made by professionals to be able to distinguish a great Italian restaurant from a middling Italian restaurant. If you've only eaten spaghetti from a box and tomato sauce from a can, you probably think that a restaurant that serves the same thing is pretty great, even though it's objectively pretty bad. But what do I know? Is there objectively "good" food that most of the population can agree upon? I'm not sure.

Some of us are content with eating mediocre food. We know that certain fast food restaurants serve higher-quality burgers than others, but that won't stop us from eating the burgers from our childhood because they are nostalgic. We know that if we put more time and money into the kitchen, we could whip ourselves up a delicious and amazing meal, but we don't want to put the effort into that, because we know that making a frozen pizza will achieve the same result of satisfying our hunger, and it will do so quicker than more actual recipes.

I think the most important thing about being happy with what you're eating is to have normal expectations. If your buddy who only knows how to cook scrambled eggs offers to make you dinner, you should expect that his meal is going to be barely edible. If your girlfriend wants to go to a nice restaurant for her birthday, it's going to be a little more expensive than your average takeout night. If you eat frozen green beans that have been living in your fridge for years, it's going to taste like cafeteria food. If you don't expect all of your meals to be great, you'll want for nothing.

These food memes are for foodies and normal people alike. If you need to eat to live, you will eat these memes up, and you won't have any room for dessert.