Carbohydrates Memes

Okay, this is BRILLIANT chemistry humor! The meme is playing with the fact that both strawberries and cellulose (what paper is made of) are composed of sugar molecules, but in totally different arrangements! 🍓📝 Strawberry Shortcake's cute little house is made of fructose and glucose sugars, while toilet paper is made of cellulose - which is essentially a chain of glucose molecules linked together. That chemical structure shown is actually cellulose! So technically, you COULD extract the sugar from toilet paper and distill it into alcohol (moonshine). It's just that nobody except a slightly unhinged chemistry nerd would think to do this! 🧪🥃 The real kicker? We've been sitting on a gold mine of potential booze every time we use the bathroom. Science is wild!

Chemistry nerds showing off their increasingly pretentious ways to say "sugar daddy" is peak science humor. Starting with the colloquial term, then escalating through chemical formulas to that final IUPAC monstrosity that probably took someone with three PhDs to write. The progression of galaxy brain images on the right perfectly captures how chemists think they're ascending to godhood with each additional hydroxyl group they can name. Next time someone asks what I do at parties, I'm definitely introducing myself as a "β-D-Fructofuranosyl α-D-glucopyranoside Human Male" and watching their eyes glaze over faster than a donut.