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It's Not That Hot, Just Eat
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About
It's Not That Hot, Just Eat, also known as Eat Your Food, It's Not That Hot, refers to a series of memes in which sexually appealing fan art and other imagery metaphorically represents the hotness of food. The format gained significant spread in /r/animemes community in early June 2019.
Origin
Before May 31st, 2019, an unknown user posted an image of a lava-filled cauldron from Minecraft captioned "Parents: It's not that hot, just eat / The food:" (shown below). On May 31st, the image was reposted by several accounts, including reposts by Instagram user empanycal[1] (233 likes in two weeks) and iFunny user represent (31 likes in two weeks).[2]
![It's Not That Hot, Just Eat Parents: It's not that hot, just eat The food: ++](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/502/853/5b0.jpg)
Spread
On June 2nd, 2019, Redditor majkelmichel posted a fan art of character Mai Sakurajima from Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai anime series paired with the caption to /r/animemes subreddit (shown below).[3] The post gained over 6,900 upvotes in twelve days.
![Now that's hot Parents: It's not that hot, just eat The food:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/502/854/a49.jpg)
In the following days, multiple posts containing images of various anime characters paired with the caption were posted in /r/animemes subreddit, with the posts implying that the offered food is as hot as the characters in the attached images. Additionally, parody posts in featuring characters considered attractive were posted in /r/animemes, /r/dankmemes and other subreddits. For example, on June 3rd, 2019, Redditor Dumb_Foxy posted an image of Shrek paired with the caption which gained over 28,800 upvotes in ten days.[4]
Various Examples
![mom knows best MOM: "JUST BE CAREFUL, THE FOOD 15 REALLY HOT" ME: "yES IT IS"](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/502/863/1a5.png)
![The Best Fastfood Parents: It's not that hot, just eat The food:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/502/858/74d.png)
![Hot Parents: It's not that hot, just eat The food:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/502/855/84f.jpg)
![Keanu Reeves good Mom: eat your food, it's not that hot The food: u/Sepperoni](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/502/875/b94.jpg)
![sexy af Parents: It's not that hot, just eat The food:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/503/167/cd2.jpg)
![I burnt my tongue Mom: "Just eat your food it's not that hot." The food:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/502/874/125.jpg)
![I was expecting something different Parents: It's not that hot, just eat The food:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/502/865/a76.png)
Template
![It's Not That Hot, Just Eat Template Parents: It's not that hot, just eat The food:](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/503/171/6b8.jpg)
Search Interest
External References
[1] Instagram – empanycal's Post
[2] iFunny – Parents: It's not that hot, just eat Thefood:
[3] Reddit – Now that's hot
Top Comments
Onion Man
Jun 12, 2019 at 01:35PM EDT
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