Welcome to Comely or Distressing, the place we rate contemporary meals memes, movies, and other decidedly unserious information. Glimpse last week’s about McDonald’s adult Happy Meals.
Be aware when extinct Original York Metropolis mayor Bill de Blasio ate pizza with a fork and knife, inflaming the pizza-loving masses who cried sacrilege and unfit leadership? In some way, a TikTok of a man rolling up an complete pie into a drippy cone ahead of shoving it less than elegantly into his mouth feels worse. “Would you eat a pizza treasure this?” Reads the on-display camouflage textual mumble material. No. I wouldn’t.
Thankfully, the internet repented by elevating corn but again to the pop culture canon by way of Emma Chamberlain’s cob-shaped pool deck decor, by turning a bag of Lays chips into a leather accessory fit for the Balenciaga runway, and by sprinkling Lactaid cinematically onto a sundae.
A man rolls a pizza into a cone and eats itIn the span of my lifetime I have considered some upsetting things. I’ve considered the upward push of influencer culture, I’ve considered the gradual death of the middle class, I have considered the entirety of HBO’s Looking. But by no means ahead of, dear reader, have I been so fundamentally incensed as I was after I scrolled upon this video of a guy shotgunning a pizza à la Liz Lemon. To take a perfectly unbiased margherita pizza—with real basil leaves no less—and willingly roll it into a cone so that all you taste is crust is purely demonic. 4.8/5 deeply, deeply distressing. —Sam Stone, staff writer
Balenciaga makes a calfskin grab that appears to be like treasure a giant bag of Lay’s chipsBalenciaga’s SS23 Paris Fashion Week demonstrate had everything—a mud pit, Kanye West in SWAT couture, fake babies in front packs, and, most importantly, calfskin clutches that regarded treasure bags of Lay’s potato chips. Creative director Demna auditioned the uncover back in June, the place he was noticed in Antwerp holding an empty sack of Lay’s (Wavy, Original, no longer made of leather) perpetually below his arm. I fantasize about owning one, ideally in the salt-and-vinegar colorway, and using it to carry a stash of snack-sized Lay’s bags. 4.4/5 finger-licking enjoyable. —MacKenzie Chung Fegan, senior commerce editor
Emma Chamberlain presentations off her corn-shaped stoolsA few things gave me pause in Emma Chamberlain’s Architectural Digest dwelling tour. Her green-tinted, sun-soaked kitchen? Magnificent. Her bedroom-turned-walk-in-closet (featuring a clothing rack dedicated entirely to her knit vests) that’s larger than my complete apartment? Vaguely upsetting for personal reasons, however also visually pleasing. But her hyperrealistic corn-shaped stools took the cob for me. Yes, corn remains to be having a moment, thanks to Chamberlain, influencer extraordinaire and once-in-a-generation tastemaker. Situated between plush chaise loungers on her pool deck, these incandescent yellow hand-painted stools uncover treasure gigantic cobs of corn with a great chomp taken out of them. I can’t speak to their comfort. Nonetheless, they’re deliciously campy and sculptural. 4.8/5 enjoyable. —Li Goldstein, digital production assistant