Actually, this strip contains a huge error:
The server’s supposed to wait until Arlo has his mouth full before asking any question.
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I’m pretty sure that the majority of people who take pictures of their food are technically grownups.
Recently I went with my family to an extremely expensive restaurant. (It was Pineapple and Pearls, if you’re familiar with upper end DC restaurants.) I suggested to my wife that we take pictures of each course, not to post but simply to add to our own memories. She shot it down, so we did not, but I still think it would have been kind of nice to have a record of the things we were served.
“Adults,” Usual John. And no all adults are grown-ups.
Somehow recording the FLAVOR of the foods would be even better.
What’s not “grown-up” [*] about taking pictures of your food? I never do it, but there doesn’t seem to be anything intrinsically immature about it.
[*] or “adult” – I don’t find the semantic meanings or implications of those two terms that different, really.
Grown-up movies are different from adult movies.
I take pictures of my glass of juice on the kitchen table, when there’s nice shadows of the blinds running across it, and a burst of sunlight light popping through the glass, like a lens flare. The red cran-whatever juice really contrasts nicely against the white table.
Salads and dinners, not so much.
I’m suddenly reminded of the time I considered doing a photographic series of frozen dinners, before and after shots comparing each against the photo on the package.
And, finally…how much I’ve missed Calvin & Hobbes…
I have been trying new recipes (one of my goals now that I’m no longer a productive member of society) and I have thought about snapping pics for some of my siblings that might be interested. I haven’t at this point. I’m not on Facebook or the ilk, so it would be email or text distribution.
Brian, it’s one thing to take a photo of a specific meal to send to a specific person for a specific reason, and quite another to post photos on Instagram of everything you eat.
Here is the difference between “adult” and “grown-up.”
If you are an adult you can go into the adult bookstore. (Maybe you have to be a geezer to know what an adult bookstore is. It’s what we had before the internet.)
If you are a grown-up you have no desire to go into the adult bookstore.
Grawlix, there are sites that compare pictures on the menus of fast-food restaurants with the actual thing you get when you order.
But if you knew that in the picture the ice cream is mashed potatoes, the milk is Elmer’s Glue, and the maple syrup is motor oil, maybe you’d find the ugly reality is actually better.
Mark In Boston: Looking at pornography certain isn’t a sign of maturity, but it doesn’t strike me that it’s particularly a sign of immaturity, either.
Hee hee hee. Boobies!
Friends and I who have the same one-tin recipe books sometimes post pics comparing book with reality. This one of mine came out pretty well: http://www.nawaller.com/salmon.jpg
Talking of faked food photos, as we sort of were, a former schoolfriend of mine had a company producing replica food (and other) items, some of them evidently stunningly realistic: see the gallery here: http://www.replica.co.uk/gallery.php
(Of course, it would be the ultimate irony if their marketing used faked photos, ie used pictures of real food to fraudulently illustrate how realistic their fake food displays were!)
In the 80’s I visited Japan. Many of the small restaurants in Yokohama had displays in their windows of fake food made of soap or wax that represented menu items. The equivalent real meal looked exactly like the display but I can only assume, tasted much better.
Thomas, plenty of restaurants right here have fake food on display.