Misinterpreting doctor's diet advice to stare at your food
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DOCTOR: YOU'RE FAT, WATCH WHAT YOU EAT. ME:
Overview
The meme has text at the top that reads: 'DOCTOR: YOU'RE FAT, WATCH WHAT YOU EAT. ME:'. Below the text is a photograph of a bald man wearing a black shirt, sitting at a restaurant table, staring intensely directly ahead at a large plate of cooked meat placed in front of him. The humor comes from intentional misinterpretation of the common phrase 'watch what you eat': the phrase normally means to monitor and limit your food consumption for health reasons, but the person in the meme interprets it literally as staring at (watching) the food he is eating.
Origin notes
This meme was sourced from the RSS feed of Reddit's Meme community, with the original title 'Misinterpretation stonks'. The reaction image of the man staring intensely at his food is a widely circulated viral photo that is frequently reused for food-related memes. The meme was edited with text using a meme generator tool, as evidenced by the imgflip.com watermark visible in the bottom right corner of the image.