Shef

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When you cook a frozen pizza in the oven instead of the microwave shef

When you smoke your salmon by rolling it into a cigar... shef

When you tweet Gordan Ramsey picture of the food you just made, and he said he likes it shef

When you put oregano on a microwaved frozen pizza shef

me: covers bread with butter and adds ham shef

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About

Shef is an intentional misspelling of the word "Chef" which is often paired with Meme Man in a similar manner to Stonks. In the template, a person will describe a simple cooking task which could make them disproportionately proud of their culinary skills. This is satirized with a picture of Meme Man in a chef's coat saying "Shef."

Origin

On January 3rd, 2020, Redditor SuperStryker7 posted the "Shef" template to /r/MemeEconomy^[1] with the caption, "when the recipe says cod but all you have is Battlefield." The post gained 52 points (shown below).

when the recipe says cod but all you got is battlefield shef

Spread

The template began trending over the following several days on Reddit. On January 4th, Redditor Switsz_fr posted an example to /r/me_irl,^[2] gaining over 1,700 points (shown below, left). On January 5th, Redditor Xx_Kamehameha_xX posted an example on /r/memes^[3] that gained over 8,500 points (shown below, right).

11 yo me after I put fries in my burger shef

10 year olds making a grilled cheese without burning it shef

Other popular examples of the meme include a post by it_could_be_me_1027 in /r/memes^[4] that gained over 14,000 points (shown below, left) and a post by TellurideSkier in /r/dankmemes^[5] that gained over 350 points (shown below, right).