Look, a lot of food is already pretty penis-y.
We use the eggplant emoji to signify dangly bits (except for a friend of mine who uses the crumbed prawn emoji, chillingly) and the peach to celebrate butts.
(Actually, peaches are pretty sexual no matter what you do with them.)
Now we have a bunch of well-known chefs, including Manu Feildel and David Vu from My Kitchen Rules, Fast Ed, and Ainsley Harriott flooding your feed with filthy-looking food.
Just look at this phallic feed from Manu. He calls it a cockembouche.
Manu’s “cockembouche” appears to be a choux pastry baked in a cylinder and injected with some kind of crème – perhaps a sweet treat, but the savoury lettuce garnish hints it’s possibly a salty one.
Here’s a gorgeously plated, frothy feast from chef Monty Koludrovic of Sydney’s Dolphin Hotel – it’s a shellfish stiffed (not a typo) zucchini flower.
And a number of participants, including Fast Eddy, Harriott, and Vu, have gone with a good old ballsy pun.
All this thirsty hunger is for a good cause. The #RudeFood campaign is an initiative of ANZUP to raise funds and awareness for “below the belt” cancers like bladder, testicular, prostate, penile and kidney.
And look, I’m not saying they’re enjoying this particular good cause too much, although anyone who’s worked in hospo will tell you chefs are not known for their highly refined and highbrow sense of humour.
Look at this especially NSFW entry from one chef with far too much imagination – although I’m sure it’s somebody’s thing.
But honestly, anyone who doesn’t enjoy a good dick joke isn’t someone you want to have a meal with anyway.