Controversial pizza toppings fear meme
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PEOPLE WHO PUT CORN ON PIZZA; PEOPLE WHO PUT ANCHOVIES ON PIZZA; PEOPLE WHO PUT BROCCOLI ON PIZZA
Overview
This meme uses a popular viral photo template where two young children (a girl holding a crying boy) are pressed against a corner wall, terrified of a black rabbit sitting next to a wooden bucket on the floor. The meme labels the characters to joke about escalating levels of unpopular and controversial pizza toppings: the girl is labeled "People who put corn on pizza", the boy is labeled "People who put anchovies on pizza", and the rabbit (the scary thing the kids fear) is labeled "People who put broccoli on pizza". The joke portrays adding broccoli to pizza as such an unforgivable, unacceptable topping that even people who dislike other controversial pizza toppings are terrified of it, playing on the common ongoing online debate about what toppings belong on pizza.
Origin notes
This meme was originally posted to Reddit, with the original title "I would never cross into that realm…". It uses the pre-existing viral "kids scared of rabbit in corner" meme template, a popular format used to represent escalating levels of fear towards increasingly unpopular or controversial things. It circulates widely across Reddit and other general meme platforms, and is a user-created joke about common pizza topping debates.