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Current music:	Joe Dassin - Melancolie

food porn (yes, you heard me)
Yesterday I asked my coworkers whether they knew what food porn was. The glances that I received demanded an explanation. Below is the definition from Wikipedia (so it must be true), and this is primarily to prove that I’m not making this up, and such a thing does in fact exist!!!

• Food Porn is a term for a spectacular visual presentation of cooking or eating in adverts, infomercials, cooking shows or other visual media. The most notable example may be Iron Chef, which has very little educational value, but scores remarkably high on the visual spectacle of cooking, cooking implements and the ingredients of food preparation. In much the same way that pornography can be a vicarious substitute for actual sexual relations, "food porn" is seen as a substitute for actually cooking and eating the food in question. Similarly, in much the same way that pornography may display feats of performance that average people would not attempt, "food porn" sometimes features exotic ingredients and excessively elaborate recipes and preparation.

• Food Porn is a term for photography and writing about food that is done in a decadent and borderline erotic style. This has become particularly prevalent in food blogging. One of the main food blog lists being called Food Porn Watch