Category / food porn

by crmayes

Taking Food to Bed

Hungry Jack’s Angry Angus – it’s not a kebab, but just as cheap and regrettable.

“Discussing his love of take-away food, Victor talked about regularly taking a doner kebab home at night while sober and extending it to the morning after (he did not use alcohol as an excuse-account for his actions). Victor said he would reheat leftover kebab meat in the microwave for breakfast because he enjoyed it so much. If Campos (2004) talks about ‘food porn’ then doner could be described as a cheap, casual lover who is so good partly because she has a reputation for being so bad.” 
Lee F. Monaghan Men and the war on obesity: a sociological study, Taylor & Francis, 2008: 55. 


by crmayes

C.S. Lewis and MasterChef

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act – that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?

– C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Collins, 1988: 82.

If the feverish desire for MasterChef and “food porn” in general weren’t enough, it has been announced that the leader’s debate between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott will be moved an hour earlier to make way for the MasterChef final.