What Is the Eat Hot Chip and Lie Viral Meme?

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Learn more about the copypasta and the hit tweet that started it

Co-authored by Luke Smith, MFA Reviewed by Candace Gasper

Last Updated: July 15, 2025 Fact Checked

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Eat Hot Chip & Lie Explained

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Origin & Spread

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Spinoffs

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Using Eat Hot Chip & Lie

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Related Memes

If you’ve been on the internet in the past several years, you’ve probably come across the phrase “eat hot chip and lie” on social media platforms like Twitter/X, Facebook, or TikTok. It’s a viral tweet that makes fun of a younger generation, and it quickly spread across the web. We’ll tell you about what it means, where it came from, its different forms, and how to use it yourself.

Eat Hot Chip and Lie Tweet

“Eat hot chip and lie” is a viral tweet that became a meme format and copypasta in 2018. The tweet says, “Any female born after 1983 can’t cook, all they know is McDonalds, charge their phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip and lie.”

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Eat Hot Chip & Lie Explained

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“Eat hot chip and lie” jokingly pokes fun at younger generations. The full meme says, “Any female born after 1983 can’t cook, all they know is McDonalds, charge their phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip and lie.” It’s a silly and ridiculous way of making fun of the habits of young people, and the trends that pop up in newer generations.
- “Eat hot chip” specifically makes fun of younger generations’ obsession with spicy chips, like Takis or spicy Cheetos.
- The meme also takes shots at younger people’s promiscuity, obsession with their phones, poor diets, and personal identities.
- The meme’s become a popular “copypasta,” which is a joke that people love to copy and paste into online conversations.

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Origin & Spread of Eat Hot Chip and Lie

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“Eat hot chip and lie” started with a viral tweet. The original tweet was made by user @realdirtjane in November 2018, and quickly racked up thousands of favorites and shares, making it an almost instant meme.^{[1]
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- The text itself is actually a shortened and remixed version of a popular Facebook post made in 2015, which said something very similar (and much more explicit).

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Spinoffs of Eat Hot Chip and Lie

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The Bernie Sanders incident In 2020, during Bernie Sanders’ campaign for president of the United States, a Twitter/X user generated a fake video of Sanders reciting the meme. This sparked a firestorm of misplaced outrage, and also a discussion of Sanders’ supposed misogyny. Of course, most people involved in these discussions were fooled by the fake video.
- The meme itself has often been accused of being misogynistic, since it singles out and makes fun of young women in particular.
- Some say that the fake video was meant to expose how gullible people are online.
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Other forms of Eat Hot Chip and Lie The meme isn’t just limited to a goofy and grammatically incorrect sentence. Over the years, people have taken the idea and ran with it, warping it into new forms, like a parody of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, with “lie” at the top of the pyramid, and the other parts of the joke beneath it.
- Some have made the meme into a daily to-do list, like: “Schedule: 1. Wake up 2. Twerk 3. Charge phone 4. Eat hot chip 5. Lie.”

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Using Eat Hot Chip & Lie

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Use “Eat hot chip and lie” to make fun of a certain type of person. Like any good meme, Eat Hot Chip and Lie is super versatile and remixable, which is exactly what people have done to it on social media. Swap “females” for whoever you want to take a playful jab at, then customize the rest of the meme to fit the profile. For example:
- “Any dog born after 1900 can’t hunt. All they know is kibble, bark at mailman, chew they toy, scoot, eat table scraps and cry.”
- “Any student born after 2000 can’t study. All they know is Sparknotes, laptop, ChatGPT, sleep in class, eat ramen, and want to die.”
- “Twitter users can’t read. All they know is 280 characters, memes, spam accounts, slide into DMs, complain, and sigh.”
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Use “Eat hot chip and lie” to make fun of yourself. While the meme is a little mean, plenty of social media users have embraced it as a self-deprecating joke that they find pretty relatable, actually. Sprinkle it into your conversations to add a little humor and self-awareness.
- “Sorry, I can’t come to the party tonight. I’m planning to twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip and lie.”
- “Honestly? It’s true. I don’t know anything but eat hot chip and lie. The education system in this country is in shambles.”

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Related Memes

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OK Boomer “OK Boomer” is a phrase used online to dismiss the arguments of claims of people who belong to the Baby Boomer generation, who are often accused of having backwards or irrelevant world views or opinions. Whether or not that’s true, the phrase has become a popular way to fire back at condescending and older social media users. For example:
- User A: “Back in my day, we worked hard, went to college, and never complained.”
- User B: “Okay, Boomer.”
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Trad memes Trad memes are a meme genre that glorifies “traditional” ways of living, like growing your own crops or ditching the internet. Unfortunately, this genre is also closely tied with restrictive gender roles and white supremacist thinking.
- “Eat hot chip and lie” is sometimes accused of being a trad meme, given that it complains about a younger generation that no longer upholds “traditional” values.