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A whole lot of people sure have ‘controversial food opinions’

People take their food VERY seriously.

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David Britton

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Thanksgiving is right around the corner, so naturally, everyone has food on the brain. Maybe that’s why the “Tweet your most controversial food opinion” meme took off over the weekend.

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On November 19, a baseball aficionado named Jon Becker took a break from tweeting about his favorite sport to collectively asked the internet to “Please quote tweet this with your most controversial food opinion, I love controversial food opinions.” Little did he realize his request would quickly rack up nearly 2,000 retweets, over 14,000 likes, a slew of contentious replies.

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Becker asked for opinions and boy did he ever get them. People were not afraid to dunk on some of the world’s most popular foods.

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https://twitter.com/wadziefadzie/status/1198943752225775616

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Although some people decided to defend certain foods that they feel were unfairly given a bad rap.

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https://twitter.com/Hlehle_Lupindo/status/1198931141333573632

Others took things in a more serious direction and used the opportunity to highlight things like the world’s food inequality.

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And of course, since it’s Twitter, things got weird.

https://twitter.com/DxGGEAUX/status/1198784299861807110

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https://twitter.com/kashanacauley/status/1198755054498414592

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(For the record some people do consider chocolate to be a vegetable.)

And one man hit on something that some people might find revolting but is perhaps brilliant:

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Despite all the controversy, Jon Becker, the original poster, seemed glad to have started the discussion.

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Enjoy your Thanksgiving.

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