It's food porn! For people who really like to cook, or eat.
I don't usually indulge in it, but I did once, with confit du canard. Duck cooked and preserved in about 2 pounds of its own lard, in a pop-top can. It's French fast food. Cheap, but very, very good.
And we live overseas, with 7-9 hours between time zones of all our family back home. So FB for us, is grandmas' online photo album. It's how they keep up with us and their grandbaby, between weekly Skype/Vonage calls.
Im 45 and never thought I'd want to be on FB, but if you use the right privacy controls, and control/restrict your friends list, it can be a very useful and free tool for people like me.
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I take pics of unusual produce that I purchase and fun food I've prepared. I think it's become the trend of foodies and amateur food critics to do so.
I find purple and white carrots, white eggplants, heirloom tomatoes, purple, rose and gold potatoes,golden cauliflower and more at my local farmer's market in the summer. I like to bring attention and awareness that local produce is the best and fun to buy! My neo-hippie friends enjoy looking at the pics.
I also cook with as many unusual ingredients like purple, red, and Forbidden rice, colourful sauces, and various cheeses and spices as I can find. I love to cook and share with people (preferably in person as munchybotaz and luckychucky can tell you). Cooking has become a passionate hobby for me and I like to show off. :) Addition: Unless I'm somewhere really special or overseas, I probably wouldn't take pics of a meal out unless it was truly beautiful.
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It's been going on for a while. If people cook something interesting or eat something fun at a restaurant, they share pictures of it. I just wish that they'd post the recipes too, if they have them. I'm always requesting recipes from my FB friends because they post menus or photos that look delicious w/o further information.
I don't mind the photos but if they bug you, go to the right side of the post and click on the X. There is an option to block photos from the individual person from posting to your newsfeed. I had to do this because one of my friends was posting a lot of raunchy joke photos and while I wanted to hear her news and updates, I could do without the photos. It worked - none of her photos post anymore but her other info comes through fine.
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I photograph food as an art and only quality professional plating, please. The people that click at their double cheeseburgers with bacon and all that have no taste, food or art wise.
You're right, I did enjoy the blog. Thanks! I like how they used both available light and studio sets and have rustic settings as well. Indoor restaurant light is sometimes all I have and it's less than ideal.
I have a fb friend who does this, but she and her husband are both professional photographers and it is, in fact pornographically-good stuff. I love those food shots! Certainly more than all that defense of Mitt Romney's Mo-ism crap!
food, crops people have grown in their own yard, etc. Often the photo's give me ideas on recipes I would like to try or modify my own.
There are a bunch of magazines that do photo's of food and wine, etc. It's a long tradition. And it's international.
People post their photo's for the same reason people publish and others buy food magazines. Those magazines have been around a very long time and most likely won't be going anywhere as food is something we all enjoy!
Don't like the Facebook pics of food? Click the "Hide" button. Whoosh. Gonner ! :-)
The difference SusieQ is that if you look at food pics in a magazine you choose to do so.You know what the magazine contains. On facebook it is just THERE. And really stupid for day to day conversation. Make a GROUP on yahoo for food pics if that is your thing.
Like Susie said- The hide button is your friend. When people get particularly preachy or annoying, I hide them for a few months. Really, I'm not getting why this is such a big deal.
Itzpapalotl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Like Susie said- The hide button is your friend. > When people get particularly preachy or annoying, > I hide them for a few months. Really, I'm not > getting why this is such a big deal.
I don't know why it's a big deal either!! I like food pictures. I like food magazines.
If someone doesn't like food pictures on Facebook they have several choices: 1. unsubscribe 2. click Hide
I thought it was just my TBM cousin and his family who did this. Maybe it is just a fad.
No, they don't take photos of beautiful produce, or fancy food presentations--it is pictures of greasy fast food, piled high in a nauseating mountain on a single plate. You can see the grease--a giant pastrami sandwich with cheese fries, bratwurst with bread & butter and mustard, even a Big Mac & fries, and an In and Out platter. It is almost like "in-your-face" to us health food lovers. My cousin weighs about 300 pounds, and his wife and children are all extremely obese, too, and they have no health insurance.
I recently read a news article, that one of the ways to curb your tendency to overeat, is to take photos of your food, and keep them on your computer screen, so you can actually see how much you are eating. They also recommended eating in front of a mirror. Gross.
I can think of a lot of photos to send right back at them--a large latte with whipped cream and chocolate shavings on top, a crystal goblet of wine, one tiny decorated petit-fors on a china plate with a silver fork. As opposed to the THREE pies and carton of ice cream my cousin photographed last time, that his family of 6 was consuming.) Obsess about food much?
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I don't mind those that much, since I'm guilty of posting pictures from a cookie exchange party, and from a camping trip where the mac and cheese was cooked in a Dutch oven. Even then, the food pictures are pretty rare on my Facebook, but I do have a couple of FB friends with vegetable gardens who sometimes post pictures of what was picked.
I also consider the hide button to be your friend, as I had to do that with a cousin of mine who volunteers at her local SPCA and posted a graphic picture of an abused dog.