I don't know when it became so
fashionable to post pictures of food, but I have a request -- please
stop. Unless you work in the food industry and are promoting
yourself, your services, or your wares, I don't want to see a picture
of your meal.
I know that it's now so easy to take a
picture of anything that we feel as though we have to take a
picture of everything, but really, we don't. This isn't a
picture of your significant other on the beach, your child acting
cute, or you and your friends hanging out that you'll nostalgically
look back on in ten or twenty years. It's a picture of a meal, just
one in a thousand that you'll
have this year (assuming you eat three meals a day). You don't need a record of it.
If you do insist on photographing your
food and posting it (really, it's just the posting I mind. You can
take all the pointless pictures of food you want as long as you keep
them to yourself), then I'm going to insist you also take a picture
of what that food looks like coming out the other end. Apparently,
my grandfather started doing this a few years ago to show his doctor
(who told my grandfather it wasn't necessary, yet he continued
anyway), so why not share that as well? Oh, because that sounds stupid --
well so does posting your meal!
So if you are one of those people who
takes pictures of your meals and posts them on Facebook or tweets
them to your friends, please stop. No one cares. No one. Not only
that, but it's incredibly narcissistic to think that anyone beyond
your dinner table cares what you're eating.
If this utterly absurd trend does
continue, I just may puke. And take a picture of it. And post it.
But I won't!
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