Food Trends 20 Years Ago vs Food Trends Now

Here's a premise that is perhaps a little bit hacky, and a format that is a little overused, but hey, you gotta make something that has popular appeal every now and again, right? I'm sure if I were more of a visual artist I would be working myself to the bone on some epic Among Us fanart right now. A man's gotta eat! Still, I think this comic is good-- whenever there is a "burst of text" comic like this, I work very hard to make each little one-liner just right. 

Ah, the 90s/early 2000s. Every snack food for a kid just a just a mess of neon colors, artificial flavors, and drinkable slime. Had these trends continued, by 2030 all distinct food groups would have convergently evolved into big cartoonish barrels of toxic waste.

And now, the current era of gimmick cookery. What do normal people eat? I wouldn't really know! Between the tacky "world's most expensive____" shit (the producers of which are surely aware of/cashing in on the outrage at such an ostentatious display of wealth in the current era, fuck em) and the NowThis quackery of "look at these gentrifying dipshits eating at a restaurant that serves clam chowder in a burrito" I suppose it's hard to say. My best guess, obviously, was cans of beans. 

Originally, the page 2 joke about youtube shows had Hey Arnold instead of Game of Thrones as the punchline. It's a funnier, weirder thing to reference for sure-- but also more divorced from the zeitgeist. The game of thrones thing elicits more of a "Oh my god, that's so true!" response from anyone vaguely familiar with those sorts of youtube cooking shows I'm referencing. It's more to the point, cleaner, describes the actual state of things more acutely. The Hey Arnold joke would have worked better if there was a more drawn out, detailed discussion of those types of shows, rather just an implication/reference. Would work better as a joke in a "2 Friends Discuss Comic." Apologies for rambling-- just my thought process on the matter.