Can anyone think of similarly generation-defining food items in media?

    • Apeman42@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Would that mean that the cake is not, in fact, a lie?

      Or is it a deeper commentary on the realism of a representation of a thing, a la Magritte’s The Treachery of Images? The cake is a lie because it’s not a cake, it’s a representation of a cake.

      Doc, this is heavy.