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Lactose Intolerance in Wisconsin Meme

This meme features a weathered plastic skeleton prop slouched casually against the back of a wooden park bench, set against a background of green grass and dry shrubbery. Bold white text is overlaid at the top of the image, reading 'WHAT I IMAGINE LIVING WITH LACTOSE INTOLERANCE IN WISCONSIN IS LIKE'. The humorous premise relies on the fact that Wisconsin is widely known as the 'Cheese State', with dairy products forming a core part of its local culture and cuisine, so a lactose intolerant person living there is humorously depicted as having wasted away to nothing but a skeleton due to being unable to eat most of the local iconic food.
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WHAT I IMAGINE LIVING WITH LACTOSE INTOLERANCE IN WISCONSIN IS LIKE

Overview

This meme features a weathered plastic skeleton prop slouched casually against the back of a wooden park bench, set against a background of green grass and dry shrubbery. Bold white text is overlaid at the top of the image, reading 'WHAT I IMAGINE LIVING WITH LACTOSE INTOLERANCE IN WISCONSIN IS LIKE'. The humorous premise relies on the fact that Wisconsin is widely known as the 'Cheese State', with dairy products forming a core part of its local culture and cuisine, so a lactose intolerant person living there is humorously depicted as having wasted away to nothing but a skeleton due to being unable to eat most of the local iconic food.

Origin notes

This meme was originally posted to Reddit meme communities under the title 'CHEESE STATE'. It is a user-created edit of the widely used 'waiting skeleton on bench' meme template, generated using the Imgflip meme editing platform as indicated by the watermark at the bottom left of the image.

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