Peach Tree Dish

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Peach Tree Dish or Peachtree Dish refers to a verbal gaffe made by Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene while she was promoting a conspiracy theory that Bill Gates was going to force Americans to eat "fake meat" grown in a "peach tree dish," intending to say "petri dish," a shallow transparent dish biologists use to culture cells in. The gaffe led to a series of criticism and memes at Greene's expense in late May 2022.

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On May 29th, 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on her social media show MTG Live to talk to her supporters. While pushing a conspiracy that Bill Gates wanted to control every aspect of Americans' lives down to cutting out their intake of real meat, she claimed Gates wanted Americans to eat "fake meat" grown in a "peach tree dish." The video and the "peach tree dish" gaffe were posted by the Twitter account @PatriotTakes^[1] that day, where they gained over 5.3 million and 970,000 views, respectively, in three days (shown below).

Marjorie Taylor Greene says the government is planning to “zap” people inside their bodies if they try to eat a real cheeseburger. pic.twitter.com/gCDHiH5Bsy

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 29, 2022

MTG warned everyone of “fake meat” grown in a “peach tree dish.” #PeachTreeDish pic.twitter.com/GYr7OJgzvi

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 29, 2022

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The gaffe led to a wave of criticism for Greene, who once made a similar verbal gaffe when she claimed Nancy Pelosi had a "Gazpacho Police" when she likely meant "Gestapo." For example, on May 31st, 2022, Twitter user @7Veritas4^[2] tweeted, "Peach tree dish. Imagine the jumbled spaghetti of neurons in her brain that processed this statement and let it pass," gaining over 60 retweets and 500 likes in less than 24 hours (shown below, left). On May 29th, Twitter user @RobertMaguire^[3] posted "I just saw multiple references to “peach tree dish” without context and I swear to God my first thought was “Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to say ‘petri dish’,” gaining over 580 retweets and 11,000 likes in three days (shown below, right).

Additionally, social media users began posting memes centered around "Peach tree dishes." On May 31st, Redditor^[4] cybermage posted a dish with a peach ornament on it as a reference to the gaffe, gaining over 5,500 points in one day (shown below, left). Twitter user @PatriotTakes,^[5] who posted the video to Twitter, made a similar meme on May 29th, gaining over 260 retweets and 2,000 likes in three days (shown below, right).

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