*Italian Chef Kiss* Gets Emoji
For many decades, mankind has understood that when the discourse is as belissimo as a spicy meat-a-ball, there is only one appropriate reaction: the Italian Chef Kiss. While the stereotype of the mustachio’d Italian chef blowing air kisses out of self-satisfaction is thought to have been around since the mid-20th century, it was only in the past year or so that the hand gesture reached the status of an internet meme, largely in thanks to some of the most iconic-looking Italian chef mascots as seen on TV and canned food packaging, like Swedish Chef of The Muppets and the nameless mascot of the Croatian condiment brand Vegeta.
Unfortunately, up until recently, Apple had failed to recognize this universal expression of appreciation in emoji form. That changed on August 13th, when designer Jen Lewis unveiled a collection of "Chef's Kiss" and "Chef's Diss" stickers available for $0.99 from the Apple store.
The set features a total of 48 stickers, as both the “Chef’s Kiss” and “Chef’s Diss” sticker sets feature six different colored chefs and four different hats. After purchasing the set, one clicks the “A” icon, and from there, the kissing may begin. There hasn't been any telling sign on whether the stickers will replace the time-honored tradition of typing “Italian Chef Kiss,” but the lazier among us now have a pretty stylish little character to express when that discourse is just right.
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Carrie Enright
Now this is my kind of emoji.
be-a-part-of-soil
> italian gay niggers
CatsGoneWildVol4
I have to take off my usually left wing hat for a moment and put on my 'old man yells at clouds' hat for a moment.
Because this is fucking absurd. 24 fucking emojis just for 1 expression? Because someone was offended that emoji's, that are symbolic cartoon representations of an emotion or expression, were 'yellow', and said 'yellow is kinda like a white person! emojis are all white! emojis are racist!'. And rainbow hat too, because 'need a gay version!'. Worst part is, this won't even please the SJW crowd because there's no clearly distinctive female version, and if a female version was created, people would object to that too because whatever way they come up with of illustrating the emoji is 'female' will require some kind of female stereotype like long hair or lipstick or eyelashes and people will complain about that too.
Thanks SJWs!
/rant
Hot Sauce
Well, being honest they are indeed charging 1 dollar for this, soy they better turn 2 emojis into 24 to make the number bigger i suppose.
But yeah, it's stupid, even more than they charge money for it.
GuyWithThePie
Those are stickers, not emojis. Would be pretty funny to see it added to Unicode though.
MittRomneyXIIV
I didn't even question it at first, because it almost seems like the kind of thing the Unicode Consortium would actually add.
GuyWithThePie
Nah, the round smileys would never have a million different hat and skin tone variations. Only the human emojis do.
Channing Tater: The Potato Lord
I understand people want diversity, but do we really need 48 images to represent two different emotions.
GuyWithThePie
The yellow smileys aren't even supposed to have different skin tones.
classified
cant wait til all the news outlets scream "cultural appropriation" and then apple gets it taken down from the app store and this "jen lewis" guy will be pressured to apologize for creating it to begin with
am i looking a bit too far ahead
rubexbox
Actually, what'll happen is that Apple removes it to avoid the risk of it showing up as a character in Emoji Movie 2.
krashlia
I thought this was "The Discourse" for a good minute.
El piso
Freakenstein
I would also wear a rainbow chef hat if I was gay lmao
EternalSonata
I'll say this… But was the rainbow one necessary?
krashlia
Such statements trigger "the Discourse".
Penultimate Keyboard Cat
None of them were necessary.
Mono Bear
"BUT HOW ARE WE SUPPOSE TO KNOW IF THE CHEF EMOJI IS GAY OR NOT??"
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