YMMV / Food Theory

• Accidental Aesop: In light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mat choosing to rest his voice when he falls ill and let Dan narrate the Mountain Dew Pizza episode, while also a mercy on our ears (especially Dan's), has an additional layer of "It's OK to take time off work if you get sick."
• Fridge Horror: Their choice to postpone the episode on All-You-Can-Eat Buffets until restaurants began to reopen normally makes an additional layer of sense when you consider that, at a buffet every customer touches the same serving utensils to serve themselves out of the same containers of food. If normal restaurants are dangerous, buffets would have been additionally so, so it makes sense they wouldn't want to encourage people to eat at them until it was safe.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In "This Lemonade Could Kill You", MatPat discusses the dangers of Panera Bread's Charged Lemonade, which contains an obscene amount of caffeine^note a large drink contains upwards of 400 mg of caffeine - just about the upper limit of caffeine someone should consume in an entire day - whereas a large coffee from Panera contains about 260 mg), which is not made evident in its advertising, as it's marketed as a normal beverage rather than a highly-caffeinated energy drink. A while later, a lawsuit went public and revealed that a few months prior to the video's release, someone had in fact already died from consuming the drink - a college student with Long QT Syndrome drank the lemonade without knowing about the caffeine dosage and suffered a fatal heart attack. The video becomes more somber once you know that it's not "This Lemonade Could Kill You", but rather "This Lemonade Has Killed".
• Uncertain Audience: In "Did FNAF Kill Chuck E. Cheese?", MatPat sees this as the problem with Chuck E. Cheese in the modern day and other similar restaurants, which are declining primarily due to an uncertainty over their appeal and novelty.
  "The restaurant sits in this nebulous place where it's trying to appeal to everyone. But by doing that, they're failing to appeal to anyone. Kids don't care about interactive dance floors, or games that are inferior to the ones that they could just play on their phones for free, and adults don't want to have to deal with screaming kids around them while they're trying to have a beer and set a new high score after work. And no one is going there for the pizza, regardless of whether it's recycled or not."
  "So to answer our initial question, what killed off Chuck E. Cheese? Well, it's delivering an unfocused experience that tries to appeal to everyone and satisfies no one, all in a market where cheaper, higher-quality options are available."

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