I should start a food recipe site that’s full of absurd parodies of these stories.

All the recipes would be lifted from food packages.

I could alter them slightly so they wouldn’t work right unless you read randos’ corrections in the comments. I would never fix the recipe itself.

The authentic Web recipe experience!

[edit] on reflection, I think I just accidentally described the exact process for creating a “serious” recipe ad-impression-farming website.

There was an amusing blog some years ago where the author ate the serving suggestion pictured on the package. The best one was where he ate raw a rectangular frozen slab of saithe together with a token tiny piece of parsley and a couple of slices of lemon.