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Taking pictures of food and viewing pictures of food is almost pointless, amirite?
by Anonymous1 week ago
I love food pictures. Food is art.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I loved eating the mona lisa
by Lost_Dot1 week ago
It is, but pictures of that food are not.
by Beginning_Stable1 week ago
I appreciate aesthetics in other areas of life, taste and texture are all I care about with food.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Appearance plays a bigger role than you realize. It also gives you a sense of food quality, atmosphere and general care taken with the business to see photos.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I've had enough food to realise that its appearance can be misleading.
by Anonymous1 week ago
i can change your mind. have you ever seen anyone with a name like srt.dave or john.r34? are cars "art"? since you can't drive a photograph its useless right actually, all photography is useless because it can be misleading
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yep
by Anonymous1 week ago
Food Is not art. It is meant to be eaten.
by Anonymous1 week ago
This isn't art?
by Gleasonannabel1 week ago
If it is food, then no.
by Anonymous1 week ago
It is food. It is also art. It's okay to be two things. They don't even contradict one another.
by Gleasonannabel1 week ago
Nope. It is either ART, or food. Those absolutely contradict one another.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Art is not the opposite of food. Is a candy necklace food or jewelry?
by Gleasonannabel1 week ago
It's almost as if I was trying to emphasise the taste of food is the most important aspect, not that photography is useless. Your English teacher would be disappointed in your interpretation.
by Anonymous1 week ago
My english teacher would have been disappointed in your headline that basically contradicts yourself. All while missing my point. Next time you try being sarcastic, do it right.
by Kind-Willingness1 week ago
My title and first sentence quite clearly outline that I think looks can be deceiving when viewing food. You brought up other senses and tried to make my opinion about photography. I didn't miss your point, it's just irrelevant.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Looks can be deceiving about most things. They can be misleading about the quality of a person or the actual experience at an event
by felton971 week ago
Let me tell you something about porn…..
by Anonymous1 week ago
You can't taste a picture. You think people take pictures of the food so they can eat them? 🤣
by burnicegulgowsk1 week ago
No dude, that's not the case at all 👀
by burnicegulgowsk1 week ago
Psychology. The point is to entice people to eat the food by building expectation via photograph.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Look at how corps craft the photos for their advertisements. They used paint and other inedible products to trick you.
by Anonymous1 week ago
ok but you kinda answered your original question there. it's to build desire.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Lol well that's corps
by Anonymous1 week ago
Sometimes food looks really pretty and I like photographing pretty things
by Anonymous1 week ago
Speak for yourself. I've found some amazing restaurants and recipes by viewing other people's food pics
by Anonymous1 week ago
By that theory watching or viewing anything through a lens is pointless.
by Still_Breath_86491 week ago
Do backyard grill photographs count here? People are more interested in your food photos if you're the one making the food and documenting past work helps track your performance over time.
by IndividualToe34781 week ago
Nah totally excused. I should specified this is for food you didn't cook.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Wow can't even stand on business for ur own opinion🤣. If I can't taste the pic of ur backyard bbq, why is that fine to take a pic of?
by Anonymous1 week ago
I otherwise agree that dining photography is generally silly.
by IndividualToe34781 week ago
This I do kind of get and have done the same in the past. Suppose this opinion is more for eating out.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I've made a whole food picture folder of most of the things I learned to cook in the last few years. When I'm out of ideas for meals, I scroll through it for inspiration. It's also nice to compare the way "my" food looked 5 years ago to now.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Id argue that taking a photo of almost anything has no real point, any point to any photo in manufactured by the one taking it.
by Brycengleason1 week ago
Why even open your eyes?
by Asleep-End1 week ago
Some of us eat with our eyes.
by Cold-Difference-89851 week ago
It gets people excited about food. I think that's a great thing!
by Anonymous1 week ago
Never go to Japan then I guess. They pride themselves on the aesthetic presentation of their food (and, well, pretty much everything else too)
by OutsideSpirited1 week ago
Looking at pictures of a car is pointless cause you can't drive a picture a picture of a dog is pointless cause you can't pet a picture a picture of a house is pointless cause you can't live in a picture this is your logic
by Anonymous1 week ago
A picture also can't crap on my rug or hog the blankets at night, so in some ways dog pictures might almost be preferable at times. I'd rather watch cat videos online than clean a litter box every day.
by Vonkallie1 week ago
You can see the texture and taste if you look at it, know what's in it, and make a wild guess.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Spoiler alert: everything is pointless, to a point
by Anonymous1 week ago
It's in no way a representation of how the food tastes. Don't know why you brought up your dog lol, glad you don't want to taste it I guess.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I think of it as a reminder of how the food felt to eat or make
by Careful-Translator911 week ago
I like putting effort into the presenting of my food, it makes it more enjoyable to eat and makes me feel more proud of my cooking skills as they improve. My friends and I also like sharing the food we cook with each other, so that's another reason I take pictures of my food
by OkCabinet26751 week ago
Tell that to "Yelp" lol. I know I love a menu that has pictures next to the description.
by UnderstandingSame3441 week ago
I used to love stalking foodie instagrams when I was deeeeeep in my eating disorder lol. I now have no interest in seeing what people are eating
by Anonymous1 week ago
I always take a picture of my food, it's fun and the food looks pretty and aesthetic.
by Balistrerilotti1 week ago
Sometimes I just see a plate of BANGER meal that I'm going to devour. I need to save that moment and that's exactly why I take pictures of my food, that is if I actually managed to remember about taking pictures when I'm hungry af
by Anonymous1 week ago
I agree if you change food to family. Cause I don't want to see your family
by Anonymous1 week ago
I take pictures of food for my journal. And despite your beliefs, people do get excited when they see pictures of food. How else do you think restaurants and small businesses attract customers outside of word of mouth?
by Ashahahn1 week ago
i don't think the point is to eat the picture
by fbode1 week ago
But you can see the ingredients
by meagandickens1 week ago
I live a time zone away from most of my friends so a lot of my communication with them are through words and pictures. And sometimes, you eat or make something and you want to share it with people who aren't there. That's what pictures are for. For sharing. It's not about whether or not you can actually taste something, I want to see what my friends are up to, where they go, and stuff like that. Social interaction is a multi layered thing and the best parts of that is when you show something to someone that you find cool in that moment. It's not always super deep. Sometimes it's a fun, silly thing that we do to connect with others.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Op hates fun
by Anonymous1 week ago
i take pics of the food i personally make just to remind myself i made it and to feel good about it, which is maybe a little narcissistic.
by Schinnerdario1 week ago
It's a fad I can't understand. Millennials definitely invented it but I'm not entirely sure why.
by Anonymous1 week ago
One could argue that social media is pointless but yet here we are
by gennarorunolfsd1 week ago
*completely pointless
by Anonymous1 week ago
Food pics can really inspire me to make a dish. I don't care for fast food photos, but most people only take photos of a photo worthy food
by Anonymous1 week ago
I love them! When they are my own, it helps me remember a particular restaurant I went to and dishes I enjoyed ("Where was the place that had the awesome sashimi platter in Chicago?") When they are other people's pics, it makes me want to try restaurants I haven't tried before. If it is food that someone made, I might ask them for the recipe. (Assuming we are not talking about pics from Mickey Dee's or Olive Garden)
by Few-Actuary1 week ago
Yeah, it's stupid but it looks like we're vastly outnumbered lol. I might just grab something off a plate if someone pointed their phone at it. If you don't want to eat it… 🤷♀️
by True-Cardiologist1 week ago
TIL photographing something makes it no longer able to be eaten
by Anonymous1 week ago
You'd grab something off of another person's plate? Jail.
by Anonymous1 week ago
It's a great way to determine if something looks like something you'd enjoy or not.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Amateur pics of food usually look like excrement.
by alexandriakub1 week ago
Sometimes I can tell by the photos that it won't taste good, for example sushi
by Anonymous1 week ago
Especially the instragram thing where your not even eating it
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Everyone is sending pics of their food to each other. I feel utterly disconnected.
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