Taking pictures of food and viewing pictures of food is almost pointless, amirite?

I love food pictures. Food is art.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I loved eating the mona lisa

by Lost_Dot 1 week ago

It is, but pictures of that food are not.

by Beginning_Stable 1 week ago

I appreciate aesthetics in other areas of life, taste and texture are all I care about with food.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Appearance plays a bigger role than you realize. It also gives you a sense of food quality, atmosphere and general care taken with the business to see photos.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I've had enough food to realise that its appearance can be misleading.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

i can change your mind. have you ever seen anyone with a name like srt.dave or john.r34? are cars "art"? since you can't drive a photograph its useless right actually, all photography is useless because it can be misleading

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yep

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Food Is not art. It is meant to be eaten.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This isn't art?

by Gleasonannabel 1 week ago

If it is food, then no.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It is food. It is also art. It's okay to be two things. They don't even contradict one another.

by Gleasonannabel 1 week ago

Nope. It is either ART, or food. Those absolutely contradict one another.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Art is not the opposite of food. Is a candy necklace food or jewelry?

by Gleasonannabel 1 week ago

It's almost as if I was trying to emphasise the taste of food is the most important aspect, not that photography is useless. Your English teacher would be disappointed in your interpretation.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

My english teacher would have been disappointed in your headline that basically contradicts yourself. All while missing my point. Next time you try being sarcastic, do it right.

by Kind-Willingness 1 week ago

My title and first sentence quite clearly outline that I think looks can be deceiving when viewing food. You brought up other senses and tried to make my opinion about photography. I didn't miss your point, it's just irrelevant.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Looks can be deceiving about most things. They can be misleading about the quality of a person or the actual experience at an event

by felton97 1 week ago

Let me tell you something about porn…..

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You can't taste a picture. You think people take pictures of the food so they can eat them? 🤣

by burnicegulgowsk 1 week ago

No dude, that's not the case at all 👀

by burnicegulgowsk 1 week ago

Psychology. The point is to entice people to eat the food by building expectation via photograph.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Look at how corps craft the photos for their advertisements. They used paint and other inedible products to trick you.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

ok but you kinda answered your original question there. it's to build desire.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Lol well that's corps

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Sometimes food looks really pretty and I like photographing pretty things

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Speak for yourself. I've found some amazing restaurants and recipes by viewing other people's food pics

by Anonymous 1 week ago

By that theory watching or viewing anything through a lens is pointless.

by Still_Breath_8649 1 week ago

Do backyard grill photographs count here? People are more interested in your food photos if you're the one making the food and documenting past work helps track your performance over time.

by IndividualToe3478 1 week ago

Nah totally excused. I should specified this is for food you didn't cook.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Wow can't even stand on business for ur own opinion🤣. If I can't taste the pic of ur backyard bbq, why is that fine to take a pic of?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I otherwise agree that dining photography is generally silly.

by IndividualToe3478 1 week ago

This I do kind of get and have done the same in the past. Suppose this opinion is more for eating out.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I've made a whole food picture folder of most of the things I learned to cook in the last few years. When I'm out of ideas for meals, I scroll through it for inspiration. It's also nice to compare the way "my" food looked 5 years ago to now.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Id argue that taking a photo of almost anything has no real point, any point to any photo in manufactured by the one taking it.

by Brycengleason 1 week ago

Why even open your eyes?

by Asleep-End 1 week ago

Some of us eat with our eyes.

by Cold-Difference-8985 1 week ago

It gets people excited about food. I think that's a great thing!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Never go to Japan then I guess. They pride themselves on the aesthetic presentation of their food (and, well, pretty much everything else too)

by OutsideSpirited 1 week ago

Looking at pictures of a car is pointless cause you can't drive a picture a picture of a dog is pointless cause you can't pet a picture a picture of a house is pointless cause you can't live in a picture this is your logic

by Anonymous 1 week ago

A picture also can't crap on my rug or hog the blankets at night, so in some ways dog pictures might almost be preferable at times. I'd rather watch cat videos online than clean a litter box every day.

by Vonkallie 1 week ago

You can see the texture and taste if you look at it, know what's in it, and make a wild guess.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Spoiler alert: everything is pointless, to a point

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's in no way a representation of how the food tastes. Don't know why you brought up your dog lol, glad you don't want to taste it I guess.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think of it as a reminder of how the food felt to eat or make

by Careful-Translator91 1 week ago

I like putting effort into the presenting of my food, it makes it more enjoyable to eat and makes me feel more proud of my cooking skills as they improve. My friends and I also like sharing the food we cook with each other, so that's another reason I take pictures of my food

by OkCabinet2675 1 week ago

Tell that to "Yelp" lol. I know I love a menu that has pictures next to the description.

by UnderstandingSame344 1 week ago

I used to love stalking foodie instagrams when I was deeeeeep in my eating disorder lol. I now have no interest in seeing what people are eating

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I always take a picture of my food, it's fun and the food looks pretty and aesthetic.

by Balistrerilotti 1 week ago

Sometimes I just see a plate of BANGER meal that I'm going to devour. I need to save that moment and that's exactly why I take pictures of my food, that is if I actually managed to remember about taking pictures when I'm hungry af

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I agree if you change food to family. Cause I don't want to see your family

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I take pictures of food for my journal. And despite your beliefs, people do get excited when they see pictures of food. How else do you think restaurants and small businesses attract customers outside of word of mouth?

by Ashahahn 1 week ago

i don't think the point is to eat the picture

by fbode 1 week ago

But you can see the ingredients

by meagandickens 1 week ago

I live a time zone away from most of my friends so a lot of my communication with them are through words and pictures. And sometimes, you eat or make something and you want to share it with people who aren't there. That's what pictures are for. For sharing. It's not about whether or not you can actually taste something, I want to see what my friends are up to, where they go, and stuff like that. Social interaction is a multi layered thing and the best parts of that is when you show something to someone that you find cool in that moment. It's not always super deep. Sometimes it's a fun, silly thing that we do to connect with others.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Op hates fun

by Anonymous 1 week ago

i take pics of the food i personally make just to remind myself i made it and to feel good about it, which is maybe a little narcissistic.

by Schinnerdario 1 week ago

It's a fad I can't understand. Millennials definitely invented it but I'm not entirely sure why.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

One could argue that social media is pointless but yet here we are

by gennarorunolfsd 1 week ago

*completely pointless

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Food pics can really inspire me to make a dish. I don't care for fast food photos, but most people only take photos of a photo worthy food

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I love them! When they are my own, it helps me remember a particular restaurant I went to and dishes I enjoyed ("Where was the place that had the awesome sashimi platter in Chicago?") When they are other people's pics, it makes me want to try restaurants I haven't tried before. If it is food that someone made, I might ask them for the recipe. (Assuming we are not talking about pics from Mickey Dee's or Olive Garden)

by Few-Actuary 1 week ago

Yeah, it's stupid but it looks like we're vastly outnumbered lol. I might just grab something off a plate if someone pointed their phone at it. If you don't want to eat it… 🤷‍♀️

by True-Cardiologist 1 week ago

TIL photographing something makes it no longer able to be eaten

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You'd grab something off of another person's plate? Jail.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's a great way to determine if something looks like something you'd enjoy or not.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Amateur pics of food usually look like excrement.

by alexandriakub 1 week ago

Sometimes I can tell by the photos that it won't taste good, for example sushi

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Especially the instragram thing where your not even eating it

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Everyone is sending pics of their food to each other. I feel utterly disconnected.

by Anonymous 1 week ago