BuzzFeed Food

If you like BuzzFeed and if you like food, I'd be surprised if you hadn't spent a shameful amount of time looking at their food posts. Over the weekend, during my hours of procrastination, I came across two articles that I thought I could share with you all. 

This first is the definition of food porn: 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelysanders/cooking-projects-aint-nobody-got-time-for

Each picture is perfect. Each string of pasta or even tiniest sprinkle on a cupcake is so flawlessly placed. As I was scrolling through (and speechlessly drooling) I kept thinking "well shit if I had enough time on my hands, I'm sure I could tackle some of these projects!" But the title of this post is completely accurate, and I definitely don't have time to put that much effort into anything I plan to eat, at least not in the foreseeable future. 

The second BuzzFeed post made me feel loads better about not having time to put into working on these projects: 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelysanders/epic-pinterest-food-fails-2013

Even if I did have the time, my attempts would unquestionable come out looking a lot like those^^ pictures. So why bother, right? These two articles made me think about the way we see food depicted in the media: on pinterest, tumblr, etc... 99.9% of the time, our food isn't going to look as immaculate as we are told it is capable of looking. 

For some reason, I thought of the new Joseph Gordon-Levitt (again, drool) movie Don Jon, perhaps because of the common internet phrase food porn. In the movie, if you haven't seen it (*spoiler alert*), Jon has to realize that true, meaningful, and enjoyable sex isn't the same as what is shown in his precious pornos. Similarly, I think many people need to go through the same process that Jon does to realize that amazing and delicious food doesn't necessarily have to look like it does in the media. 

The pictures below were my personal favorites from the two articles.