Revenge Meatloaf

About

Revenge Meatloaf is a viral meatloaf recipe that the author claims was their mother's secret recipe. However, due to her lack of support for his homosexuality, he posted the recipe online.

Origin

On November 9th, 2019, Tumblr ^[1] user mysteries posted the earliest known version of the recipe. He began the post, "When I was little my mom’s meatloaf was my favorite food. But ONLY her meatloaf. I didn’t like anyone else’s, and she told me that she would teach me how to make it when I was older. And when I was like 19? She finally taught me, but she told me never to tell anyone else and I was like weird but okay. Anyway, she was super fucking homophobic and abusive to me when I told her I was gay, so here’s the recipe." The post received more than 90,000 notes in less than one month (shown below).

Spread

Three days later, Redditor ^[2] crustycumsocklicker posted the recipe in the /r/tumblr subreddit. The post received more than 5,800 points (99% upvoted) and 145 comments in less than one month.

On November 22nd, Twitter ^[3] user @MarjorieIngall tweeted the recipe with the caption "Last night my LGBT kid told me about Revenge Meatloaf and tonight I made Revenge Meatloaf." The tweet received more than 17,000 likes and 4,800 retweets in less than three days (shown below).

Following the Twitter post, people began reacting to the story and the recipe (examples below).

Several media outlets covered the recipe, including Indy100^[4] PinkNews,^[5] The Daily Dot ^[6] and more.

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