It is on purpose. It is an experiment on art getting steadily more complicated as well as drawing on lore from https://analognowhere.com/ via @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org and the lore he has built

I believe a lot of Japanese cuisine uses this premise.

I was mistaken and intended to comment about the Mastodon

Edi; I was thinking of a different account. I had yo look it up.

I have interacted with that account before. From what I can remember, it is a satire or joke account.