There are times - many of them actually - when the food world takes itself too seriously to be taken seriously. It's just too damn precious. Yes, issues regarding carbon emissions from farming and good animal husbandry are fine fare for a serious discussion, but when we get so deathly earnest about artisanal beer, the merits of a Lacanche oven, and the moral high ground achieved by making our own vinegars at home, it's all a bit revolting.The online world is the worst. There is so much food-lifestyle noise out there that one starts to feel bludgeoned by shots of good-looking-food-through-a-filter. If you're sensible enough to be crying out for some light relief, here are a few places to find it (mostly online, of course).Nothing is too lowbrow or odd for the author of Food Junk. Everything from the mainstream (Lays chips and Ovaltine) to the really not (breastmilk flavoured lollipops and a San Quentin State Prison Lunch-pack) gets a review. The recurring stormtrooper action figure elegantly posed next to most food items adds greatly to the appeal. Not just hilarious but really clever too. Go to www.foodjunk.wordpress.comMy 12-year-old guided me to the cult YouTube channel Good Mythical Morning, but it's great for adults in need of some healing absurdity too. Though it's not all about food, edible matter seems to be a main theme. The best outings are when Rhett and Link (two ex-engineer, 30-something, quasi-adults), persuade various food items into different formats. So, we have "Will it fondue?" (Turkey legs and cheesecake both do, deep-fried fish-heads not so much.) "Will it deep fry? (Turns out sunglasses won't) and so on. I also like the Dumpster Food Challenge. Strangely addictive and soothing.And then of course there's the classic: Cake Wrecks. If you think the idea of badly flopped confectionary (actual, unintentionally funny cakes, not ones made for the site) is hilarious, you'll love this. Badly punctuated celebration cakes, fondant-icing babies that looks like deformed Martians, it's all there. Go to: www.cakewrecks.squarespace.comLastly, a real thing rather than something only absorbable via screen (but of course you must buy it online), is the Japanese mini food fad Popin Cookin! (the exclamation is part of the brand). It represents everything which would throw Slow Food into a frothy. And yet, it is hugely charming and fantastic. Children, teens and grown-ups alike are besotted with the kits, which contain powders and gels for mixing, and moulds for shaping, to enable tiny bento-boxes, doughnuts and even noodles to be formed. It's what Hello Kitty would invent if she was a food technologist. Available from White Rabbit Japan...