Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Tastes better when spoken in hushed terms

Food presentation is funny. It's not just how it smells, or looks, or what kind of dish it's on, but how you describe it as well. It's one of the things that it's better to over describe it than not. Ideally done in hushed tones like if you spoke too loud the food would stand up on the plate, huff, and storm off like some diva. Which is impressive if you picture a salad "walking off set".

I find examples are best. Let's do KD and microwaved hotdogs - a not infrequent meal from my childhood. Remember to read this next section in hushed tones.
Tonight we are having precision curved pasta, served in a bright saffron inspired sauce made with select cheddar cheeses. This is accompanied with locally prepared select cuts of meats that were cooked in an electromagnetic oven.
 Now that sounds pretty good. Much better than the following
We're eating mac and powered cheeze with nuked lips and assholes.
 See, it's totally the hushed tones that sell it.

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