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Becca's avatar

I have been thinking of this so much! How have they actually tricked me into thinking sardines are chic 🥲 I do love all the tomatoes and olives though

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Liz's avatar

Ok I’ve been noticing this for a while (e.g “Al dente” t shirt that was circling IG a bit ago). At the risk of turning this topic from fun to decidedly less fun, a couple things that are nagging at my brain:

1. Is there some kind of fat phobic joke going on wherein superthin (traditional sample size) (read: morally superior) women wear merch of “fattening” (read: morally inferior) food in an ironic way?

1a. Anybody else remember the Kate Upton cheeseburger ads?

1b. Anybody in larger bodies wearing food merch?

1b1. If so, are you getting positive or negative feedback on it?

2. As a person recovering from a fraught relationship with food and body image, I’m steering clear of all of this (except for those Matisse-esque papercut-style fruit silhouettes that are so abstract they’re no longer really food)

2a. Anyone wanna unpack this with me?

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