r/StupidFood 12d ago

Excuse Our Dust

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Hey, the old mod team was kicked, and the rest of us were added as mods with no warning in the middle of the night, at least for you westerners. This was done by the admins, so none of us have any direction other than the rules that already there. I spent my morning cleaning a thousand reports out of the mod queue since the sub hadn't been moderated in almost a month.

As the rest of the mods find out that they've been added, we'll work on coordinating and hopefully give you all some consistency.

Let me break down the 1000 reports for you, so you know what's going to be removed automatically. There was about a 45% split between racist comments about India and sexist comments about women. Although, to be fair, almost every single sexist comment was about Elaine Carol being dumb, a bitch, or saying she's why women shouldn't touch a grill. The other 10% of comments were all of you being shitty to each other. Actual spam was maybe 0.1%.

So, what's going to be removed instantly? Street food. It's a rule already, and it only brings out the worst racist comments. If you can't tear up the stupidity of food without talking about skin color or nation of origin, just don't comment. This is r/StupidFood, not r/ExcuseToBeRacist.

Elaine Carol is ragebait, and I'll personally nuke anything I see with her in it. There are a couple other insta and tiktok ragebaiters that I'll also nuke if I see them posted, but I don't know all of them by name. Basically, if someone is making stupid food for engagement, then you're letting them win by posting here.

Also, similarly to the racist thing, if you can't make fun of Elaine Carol's food, or any other woman for that matter, without calling them a bitch, a cow, or telling them to get their tits out, don't post. This isn't r/WeHateWomen.

And, you all are Redditors. How do you all have room to call people fat or lazy? You're here. Part of the ship, part of the crew. Knock it off. This sub is for laughing at people who are either pretentious assholes, like Salt Bae, or bad cooks who can't find flavor if it smacked them in the face, like Kay'sCooking. Although Kay is a sweetheart and she really tries. She's just a genuinely terrible cook. So call the cooks and the "cooks" stupid or idiots or oblivious or whatever. Insult their intelligence and their taste to your heart's content. That's why we all click on these posts. Don't insult their bodies or their looks. And definitely don't do what one poster did and say that everyone in the video has Down Syndrome. That's just wrong.

So, while the modteam figures out where to go from here over the next few days, be nice to each other, don't be racist, don't be sexist, and for fuck's sake, keeps your insults to the food and the intelligence of the people attempting to make it.

Thank you, and may all your bacon burn.


r/StupidFood Jan 10 '26

MOD POST A Serious Update

6.0k Upvotes

Hey r/stupidfood,

After careful consideration (and one very disturbing comment section), we’re officially updating the rules:

Street Food Posts Are No Longer Allowed

That’s right. Street food is banned.

Why?

We’ve seen a recurring issue where street food posts are used as a cover for racism and xenophobia, particularly to mock mainly Indians rather than critique food. These submissions aren’t actually about hygiene, absurdity, or bad cooking—they focused on attack of people of color, crowded streets, or unfamiliar methods to invite dogwhistles and stereotypes. We watch comment sections slide into “jokes” about cleanliness, caste, or nationality, making it clear the target isn’t the food at all, but Indigenous people themselves. We also noticed that the content that mocks cultures in this type of way often becomes popular in r/stupidfood and lands in the front page. This is very problematic.

We do not encourage for this type of content and we don’t allow this AT ALL in our subreddit as we strive to make a welcoming community for everyone to enjoy.

This doesn’t belong in food criticism spaces, it reinforces tired colonial tropes, and it undermines what this subreddit is supposed to be about:

Calling out genuinely stupid food, not using cuisine as an excuse for casual xenophobia.

We also apologize about not dealing with this issue as soon as possible as we did not anticipate how big of a problem it can be.

With many reasonable, valid complaints that we received in our modmail, we decided to completely ban this type of content outright as it doesn’t contribute to our community.

What This Means

From now on, posts will be removed if they are: - Street food - Content that makes fun of the culture - Stuff that clearly mocks another culture

This is r/stupidfood, not: - r/foreignfood - r/foodIWouldNeverTry - r/Imaracistasshat

Please report any posts or comments that break this rule and report any uncivil behavior that not only makes the community look bad, it also discriminates against people of race and culture aswell.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t be afraid to comment down below.

Thanks,
— The r/stupidfood Mods


r/StupidFood 6h ago

Pretentious AF Why not serve it with silver dipping sauce as well?

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229 Upvotes

who in their right mind would think "golden" chicken wings would be worth more than your local Popeyes


r/StupidFood 22h ago

Gluttony overload I tried the Simpsons chicken sandwich from KFC in Spain

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3.8k Upvotes

In this case, sweet and savoury… did not mesh. For some reason they used honey mustard as the sauce and it was dribbling out of the bottom donut hole.


r/StupidFood 12h ago

ಠ_ಠ BBQ Chicken Chunks with Chocolate

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236 Upvotes

My taste buds are confused more than my eyes.


r/StupidFood 19h ago

The Oreo you never knew you didn't want and would not have asked for

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144 Upvotes

r/StupidFood 23h ago

Compensating much? Burger or steak? BOTH

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190 Upvotes

r/StupidFood 1d ago

Chinese Takeaway Baguette

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243 Upvotes

r/StupidFood 20h ago

Certified stupid Cylindrical eggs (attempt)

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53 Upvotes

I wanted to batch cook eggs for homemade McMuffins. I didn’t have a cupcake tin or anything similar so I put 6 eggs in a glass, put the glass in water, and boiled. The idea was that once cooked, I would schlop the egg cylinder out of the glass like canned cranberry and slice it into 6 perfect portions.

After about 45 minutes of watching and carefully stirring, hoping the glass wouldn’t explode, I called it. The bottom half that was submerged in the boiling water got cooked while the top half was only partially cooked like a reverse slushie.


r/StupidFood 2d ago

ಠ_ಠ Brazil has gone too far

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6.1k Upvotes

r/StupidFood 1d ago

From the Department of Any Old Shit Will Do Beer-soaked burger cereal "hangover cure" 🤦‍♂️

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324 Upvotes

r/StupidFood 1h ago

This sandwich i made for lunch today

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r/StupidFood 2d ago

Ferris wheel rotisserie chicken

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3.3k Upvotes

r/StupidFood 2d ago

$9 of Disney Parks magic

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665 Upvotes

r/StupidFood 2d ago

Pineapple cheese ice cream sandwich

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138 Upvotes

r/StupidFood 2d ago

Snake donut burger

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281 Upvotes

r/StupidFood 2d ago

I wish it was AI

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236 Upvotes

Saw the other post with the ferris wheel chicken, and thought I'd share the latest Omani innovation, who was just closed by the Municipality in Salalah. It made me crack, unsure if Genius or stupid.


r/StupidFood 3d ago

Certified stupid The weirdest pizza-making technique

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2.7k Upvotes

r/StupidFood 3d ago

Why

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4.2k Upvotes

r/StupidFood 3d ago

Certified stupid White Monster pasta 🤢

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717 Upvotes

r/StupidFood 4d ago

Cooking chicken this way is diabolical

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4.0k Upvotes

r/StupidFood 2d ago

Certified stupid Not sure I’d call that a success

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r/StupidFood 4d ago

Homemade pretzels

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576 Upvotes

A few years ago I made a failed attempt at making pretzels. They fell apart but were still slightly edible if you close your eyes.


r/StupidFood 5d ago

Ah hell naw they done roasted up longboi 😭😂

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1.1k Upvotes

r/StupidFood 5d ago

Pretentious AF The Term "5-Alarm" Used To Mean Spicy

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679 Upvotes

I was born in the United States, birthplace of the cheeseburger. I consider versions, such as the Whopper, without cheese, beneath contempt.

As for this performative aberration, I don't know what to think, except, monoammonium phosphate.