4 new food emojis – and the internet is exploding
Among the sixty new emojis Apple is adding to your iPhone next autumn are four new food emojis. Half the internet is already up in arms over the new images of gross falafel balls and the suggestive bulb of garlic.
Among the mysterious Asian characters and the hundreds of variations on a smiley, your iPhone also has plenty of food emojis. Healthy things like apples and strawberries, fried eggs and whole hams, cakes and lollipops, popping bottles of bubbly and mugs of frothy beer—your phone has it all. Enough to talk about delicious food even when you don’t feel like typing letters, to congratulate people exuberantly (cake! chocolate!), or to entice them to have a drink (wine! champagne glasses!).
Falafel and garlic bulb
Four new ones are coming this autumn: butter, waffles, falafel and a bulb of garlic. All delicious (although not in that combination), so you might say they’re a valuable addition. But people on the internet see it differently. To begin with: the falafel balls. According to some, they look like manure. Like steaming droppings that horses sometimes leave behind… Google’s version of the emoji is actually a little clearer: fewer balls, a plate underneath, and it immediately looks a bit more appetizing.
Pentagon waffle?
The waffles are heart-shaped, they look cute, and chances are everyone will immediately crave fresh waffles when you send them. But suspicious internet users fear that the waffles will be used as a symbol for something else, such as the Pentagon, the Illuminati and other mysterious conspiracies.
According to some, the butter is too square, too yellow and too hard. Is it really butter? Surely it isn’t—oh, horror!—margarine? People are also afraid that butter will be used as a symbol for lubricant in 18+ text conversations. Butter? Really? A dirty mind is a joy forever, as they say.
Going wild over the garlic bulb
But the most talked-about one is the bulb of garlic. Beautiful, plump cloves wrapped in a white skin—the imaginations of some people are running wild. They see the bulb as the indispensable companion to the suggestive aubergine, and not in a delicious ratatouille, shall we say **wrong wink**.
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