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

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    3 days ago

    Even though it didn’t come out until the later part of the 2000s, the Portal cake is probably the official cake of that decade.

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        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.

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      I was watching the screensaver of a Big Buck Hunter arcade cabinet at the bar last night, and one of the minigames involved shooting roaches crawling all over a house. The cake in the kitchen was definitely the Portal cake.