aesmael

 [sound of retrieving food from refrigeration]
My mother: "There's a pie in there if you want something to eat"
Me: "Actually it's in my hand"

[...]

Katarella: "Nyao!"
Me: "You're very talkative"
Me: "Well, you could say I'm very talkative..."
Me: "... but I know I mean things. I don't know if you mean things."
Me: "I suppose you'd know if you mean things"

Having been six months since my last photo post, we continue with something from just four days after the last one.

Since I had been cooking lately, my mother asked me to make something from a recipe. I no longer remember what it was called, but here are some photos of it in progress and finished.

( cuts are for hiding pictures behind )

I think it came out tastily, but very sweet.

Why is it some foods it seems are so dreadfully that merely mentioning them or expressing enjoyment for them gets me warned they 'are fattening'? Do they have some kind of radical, permanent overnight effect on biology? I think if that were the case, in this culture they would be long since banned.

It's very frustrating, that this seems to be the only lens people are capable of viewing food through: 'fattening' (= bad), 'non-fattening' (= good). What ever happened to eating for enjoyment? I don't care if food has been placed into a particular moral category. I don't want to care, and I do believe people's bodies will largely sort themselves out.

But I am not entirely impervious to peer pressure. It frustrates me a lot to look at some food or drink item and have my first thought be "that's fattening". Hard not to, when that is the only context everyone around you regards food in, vocally and frequently. At this point, please consider an additional tear-filled rant at culture and advertising destroying people's ability to enjoy even simple things, and an inability to find escape from it.

At least I can and do still enjoy the 'banned foods', but I'd be happier with that rubbish entirely out of my head.

(cross-posted to feminist_rage)

Due to its high natural deliciousness the pancake, alas, is very nearly extinct. The decline in numbers was swift, perhaps inevitable. Unfortunately for many organisms, their deliciousness - or lack thereof - is largely not under their control, but rather the domain of the organism performing the tasting.

What lesson can be drawn from this? One which immediately comes to mind is of utility. If the quality of deliciousness can result so swiftly in the near-extinction of the pancake, and if it is property existing only in the context of an observer - a taster - then a solution to certain pest problems readily suggests itself.

If humans were modified to find cockroaches supremely delicious, for example, then they would soon cease to suffer from cockroach infestations. Except, perhaps, from the lack thereof.