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Strait of Hormel Visual Pun Meme

This is an absurd visual pun meme. The artwork depicts a narrow strait between two rocky coastlines, entirely filled with cooked baked beans in sauce instead of water. Multiple large and small cargo ships travel through the bean-filled strait, all emblazoned with the Hormel food brand logo, and loaded with Hormel branded shipping containers. At the top of the image, text reads "STRAIT OF Hormel", styled to match Hormel's official brand logo. The entire joke relies on the phonetic similarity between the real-world strategically important shipping lane "Strait of Hormuz" and the food brand "Hormel", paired with the visual gag of the strait being made of a popular Hormel food product (baked beans).
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This is an absurd visual pun meme. The artwork depicts a narrow strait between two rocky coastlines, entirely filled with cooked baked beans in sauce instead of water. Multiple large and small cargo ships travel through the bean-filled strait, all emblazoned with the Hormel food brand logo, and loaded with Hormel branded shipping containers. At the top of the image, text reads "STRAIT OF Hormel", styled to match Hormel's official brand logo. The entire joke relies on the phonetic similarity between the real-world strategically important shipping lane "Strait of Hormuz" and the food brand "Hormel", paired with the visual gag of the strait being made of a popular Hormel food product (baked beans).

Origin notes

This meme was originally shared on Reddit as noted in the provided source information, with the original title "Strait of Hormel". It is a digitally created humorous meme, likely generated with AI image generation tools, playing on the homophone pun between the Strait of Hormuz and the Hormel food brand.

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