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TOP・UPDATES・FOUR PILLARS・CINEMA/TV・GAMES・MANGA/ANIME・MUSIC・WRITINGS・FAQ・LINKS
I don't understand "foodies" (I hate these baby-speak terms that are invented for everything these days). I love a lot of things about Japanese culture, but one of the things that I felt the most alienated from them about was the obsession with aesthetic, gourmet food over there. It seems like people LOVE food in Japan. Food is better than sex to so many of them. Sure, tasty food is great. But it seems like every other TV show over there is about showing off some ultra-gourmet, delectable, rare piece of food and people really really like watching these. Of course, this isn't completely alien to western countries. Food channels exist all over the world on TV, it seems. So I think that while a lot of Japanese culture is perhaps an extreme on one level of being uncommonly obsessed with food, I'm probably not a "normal" westerner with regard to this. I'm probably on the other extreme of being uncommonly uninterested in food.
Do I like great, tasty food? Of course. If you gave me the choice between some grocery store California Rolls and something from Jirou's gourmet sushi restaurant, it's obvious that I'm going with the latter. But if I was going to rank the things that make me happiest in life, food would be very very far down the list. It would be far under things like friends, family, art, music, films, video games, books, porn, nature, travel, spirituality, and the like. Whenever I think about my best memories of food, it's usually less about the food itself. For example, things like hot chocolate while sitting outside in the cold, well-brewed maccha as part of a tea ceremony, shaved ice on the beach in the summertime, amazake during new years' at the local shrine, and so on are more about food as an accent to the whole experience.
Hell, if I was given the option to push a button and never be allowed to eat food again but still receive an automatic filling of my daily caloric intake (and of course have any other potential health side effects mitigated), I think I would press it. Don't get me wrong, I would be sad for quite a while. I would miss a lot of my favorite foods and miss the opportunity to have a fully rounded-out experience of situations like the above, for example. But the amount I would save on time and money buying and cooking food would easily be worth it, not to mention the extraordinarily positive impact it would have on the environment. Of course, I'll never have to make that choice. And no, I'm not going to replace all my food with Soylent because that shit can't be good for you and seems to turn you into a tranny.
So yeah, I don't understand people whose major interest, passion, hobby, etc. can be food or cooking. 90% of the time, food is like fuel to me and little more. And cooking is as fun to me as doing laundry or scrubbing my toilet. I guess that's a good thing because it means I can adapt to a pretty healthy diet that is easy on my wallet, my health, and/or on the environment. Unfortunately I'm not there yet because I still find myself eating out a lot just for the convenience of not having to cook. By next year, I would like to try to stop going to restaurants completely unless it's for a social reason. At least I already have completely given up using any apps like UberEats or DoorDash, because those can be truly terrible for your health, your wallet, and for society at large if you get addicted to the convenience.
Does anyone else just really not care about food very much one way or another? It seems like the only others who do are poor college students and other freaxxx like me. It's so hard to relate to normies and their love and passion for food when I just don't give a shit.