Published by JPLand on 11 Feb 2009 at 08:43 am
Food Porn
[UPDATE: It appears as though lance beat me to posting this link. But since I've already gone through the work of putting up, I'll leave it here and give credit to lance for linking to it first.]
I don’t recall exactly when I first heard the phrase “food porn” but I recall the first time that I read it in print was when Hardee’s introduced their Monster Burgers to the world. The intent of the phrase is to indicate that some food is gratuitously fattening for no reason other than the sake of boasting of calories and fat grams.
I got an e-mail this morning with the following link. It’s food porn. Instead of labeling it NSFW (not safe for work) I’ll label it NSFDBTA (not safe for dieters, but totally awesome.)
I honestly laughed at this because I know of 4-5 people that would take a road trip with me to go try each of these out.
Alana on 15 Feb 2009 at 7:24 pm #
Oh! Alex and I talk about this all the time! He got really offended by Burger King, because they basically accused him of not being a man for not eating a Meat on Meat on Meat with Cheese and Bacon Burger. Some of the commercials are downright ridiculous, like the Quiznos (mega fat and calories place) commercials that make fun of Subway by implying that REAL MEN want lots and lots of meat on their sandwiches, and anyone who accepts less than four inches of meat on a sandwich is being cheated. It’s all so gross.