# The Memes of Anthony Bourdain

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [June 27, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-memes-of-anthony-bourdain/1003382 "2024-06-27T00:24:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-memes-of-anthony-bourdain/1003382/1 "2024-06-27T00:24:51Z")

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Loved this article (limited gift link). I had no idea Bourdain memes were such a thing.

> **[The Meme-ification of Anthony Bourdain](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/magazine/anthony-bourdain-memes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.200.ut0q.OB_HbQFfUSSB&smid=url-share)**
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> The beloved chef’s admirers have given him a distinctly modern kind of digital afterlife — at the center of fondly parodic jokes.

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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-memes-of-anthony-bourdain/1003382/2 "2024-06-27T00:26:42Z")

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_”Modern Bourdain memeing” is playful, irony-tinged, knowingly unserious. One common meme uses a still from a 2006 “No Reservations” episode in Beirut, with Bourdain announcing, “I got a serious lust for shawarma.” (One user shares it with a two-word caption: “ovulation week.”) An enduring meme called “Bourdain on a train” has him wearing sunglasses and headphones, looking out a window between two trains; people deploy it to joke about the smug worldliness one feels when learning about another culture’s food. (One of the most viral examples simply reads “white people correctly pronouncing pho.”) Other popular images are even more obviously relatable: In a March 2024[Instagram post](https://www.instagram.com/p/C4UWaPTuu_n/?hl=en&img_index=1), Drake included a familiar screenshot of Bourdain saying: “It’s 11:00 a.m. I’ve got like six drinks in me.”_

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**Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-memes-of-anthony-bourdain/1003382/3 "2024-06-27T15:50:47Z")

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**Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-memes-of-anthony-bourdain/1003382/4 "2024-06-27T16:26:02Z")

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I made this one shortly after he died:

[![](https://i.imgur.com/P2EISzH.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/P2EISzH.jpeg)

Quote is from the end of an episode of “Parts Unknown” in Houston.