An interesting hypothesis I’m sure you’ll agree, and I’m sure it caught your eye!
I was listening to a couple chatting in a restaurant the other day and after being rude to the waitress, obnoxious about the decor and just engaging in general twattery they began to criticise the food. Now I was eating the same dish he was eating and it was beautiful, loaded nachos with chilli, guacamole, cheese and lashings of refried beans and sour cream, lovely balance of flavour and spice and very decadent and naughty…I was happy as Larry. But apparently according to this “Made in Chelsea” looking fucker you “eat with your eyes” and this food just looked like puke.
Now granted it sort of did (example above) lol however it does not take an anatomical genius to figure out that we most certainly do NOT eat with our eyes! It is by far the most irritating form of food snobbery going. I know everyone’s obsessed with putting soup into little towers and drizzling tiny drops of sauce in the shape of the Mona Lisa but frankly I’d rather they stopped faffing on and focused on flavour. It also astounded me that this man had come to a Tex Mex restaurant for bloody gourmet food art, I can’t help but assume that’s certainly not how it’s done in Texas…or Mexico. But it did get me thinking, I am pretty sure all my favourite foods look a little bit like throw up!
I mean sticking with Tex Mex theme who doesn’t like a good chilli, nothing better than slapping some of that on a pile of rice and yet it reminds me of the sound of something else slapping onto the tiles. Speaking of rice Indian food couldn’t get any better but looks the same going out as going in.
Or there’s always the creamy cheesy pasta and sauces that I slop onto my plate by the bucket load, but I’d better not use the same bucket as when I’m ill otherwise I would notice a striking resemblance. Tastes utterly divine yet my eyes if I’m honest wouldn’t enjoy it nearly so much, perhaps partly due to the searing pain I’d be in trying to blink a pasta bake into my system. What an idiot!
So basically I’ve intensely put you off your food by talking about some of my favourites 🙂 happy days!
I do have to admit working as a student nurse I do go from doing the most horrendous things straight to eating my sandwiches with barely enough time for a good hand scrub so it does take a lot to put me off my food, I just don’t quite think every dish I eat has to be exquisitely modelled on Mary Antoinette’s breast for crying out loud.
All I’d say it don’t be put off cooking cause you’re worried about how it’s going to look because no matter what the Michelin star chefs say your family, friends and you are the ones eating it every day and frankly I don’t think they’ll give a shit.
Down with food snobbery, up with stuffing our faces!
The Foodie
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