This is weird !

Been on "all inclusive " holidays before and never really noticed before ! Why do so many people take pictures of the food ? Is it a Facebook thing or what !

 

Documentation just in case they get sick....

 

Yes it is, crazy I know.

 

idk y ppl do that but it is weird

 

"if my meal's not on social media, then i didn't really eat..."

 

Compare it to English cuisine?

 

Tonight there were at least ten people just walking round taking pictures of the food ! Not the food on their plates either

 

Photographing everything with your cellphone has become so popular, that I'm sure their must be photographs of people dying taking photographs. Snapchat glasses now take the hassle out of it, and automatically photograph whatever you are looking at. Recording their pathetic lives for posterity, is how they attempt to give them more meaning. Surveys have indicated that the most popular way to buy happiness today in the US, is to spend more money. People will rate their vacations on how much they spent on such meals, and you could put little price tags on them.

 

I find if I am flicking through Facebook and someone has posted a pic of a coffee they are about to have, I'm like mmmm coffee, and its a reminder to go buy a coffee.

Never works with food though.

 

maybe they're health inspectors.

 

It's an Instagram thing I think

That and presentation is such a big thing in restaurants these days. They make food too pretty to eat but you also want to eat it so..why not preserve it in a picture?

I am guilty of taking food pictures sometimes

 

I've taken food pictures also but mostly of the food that I myself have cooked

 

Having no sense of smell myself, the fixation on things like food and flowers has always escaped me, and people shoving things under my nose for me to smell is a rather rude foreign custom I've had to tolerate all my life.

 

Yeah I get that but walking round a buffet taking pictures just seems odd to me !!

 

Buffets are the cutting edge of modern franchises, still struggling to establish a better foothold in the market. Everyone I know agrees, Olive Garden sucks for the most part, and that's because its the best they can do dirt cheap right now with the technology they have, but the technology is coming along to do things such as make food taste like it has more salt on it than it does and things like that. They want to get your taste buds attention, then worry about your health. Consumers get competitive about who got to eat the most decent tasting food for the least amount of money. Saturday Night Live did a skit once, where they all shoved their faces into troughs.

Frozen TV dinners were invented, when a railroad train ran off the tracks. Although the food industry tries to be high tech, its still debatable at times!

 

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The year 2050:

The latest social media trend involves taking pictures of the food you allowed to pass through your digestive system

 

They already have pills you can swallow with cameras in them, for diagnosing colon cancer, red light they can shine through your skin, and quantum optics, that can allow you to see all the other colors of the rainbow the human eye can't normally see. Forget about cameras in public places, they can test your dna from a distance, and can already see right through your body.

Their is a 10 million dollar prize for the first Star Trek style medical tricorder and for a science tricorder, while a theory of everything is just around the corner, and those little handheld devices will do a lot more than Star Trek ever imagined.

 

No doubt strictly for medical diagnosis

 

Nah, any damned fool can play around with cameras inside a pill. Its not like you can't find one in cellphone and shove into one with capacitor or something for power. The newest cellphone cameras coming out should have flat lenses within a year or two at most, capable of emulating a 3 foot telescope. We are going down the rabbit hole and its gonna get funky from here on out, so hold onto your hat. Wear dark glasses if your eyeballs keep popping out. Assume that now is the time to assume you don't know a damned thing!

Ironically, all the shit should get too interesting for decades to come, right around the release of the next generation consoles. The entire semi-conducting and condensed matter physics community are already going cross-eyed! Nobody is saying a fucking word... Its like nothing anybody predicted, and they've all seen this day coming for at least 30 years. For example, they've discovered a way that your air conditioner, computer, fridge, or whatever will never require energy, much less, a wall socket.

The Pentagon discovered back in Vietnam that quantum mechanics manifest on macroscopic scales, but all the ways discovered that it does is a military secret. So, they censor the internet, text books, etc. and encourage idiots to keep claiming its impossible. They are censoring fuzzy logic as well, which can be used to put one through your window at 800mph. That's really what all the fuss if about with over a trillion dollars invested in AI last year alone, because the truth is getting harder to hide.