"I Just Want To Eat"

I hate to call out another blog, but I cannot resist commenting on a blog post I saw on a fellow food blog called "I Just Want To Eat". Rated the #1 food blog on Zomato, "I Just Want To Eat" has been an active blog since 2011. Like most highly populated blogs, the blogger is sometimes invited for complimentary meals to different restaurants so their restaurant is featured on the blog, and receives exposure to large audiences. After reading one post about a restaurant that I too have visited, I was left wondering if the admin is blogging the truth, or is happy blogging positive qualities to continue receiving free meals.

The restaurant I am addressing above is called Uncle Jack's Steakhouse, which is located in Midtown West. You can find the post about it on "I Just Want To Eat's" blog here.

The first thing you see when you look at the blog post is that he (the admin) received his meal at Uncle Jack's for FREE. I am, however, glad that he mentioned this or else I would be even more suspicious of him fabricating the truth.

His review of the restaurant, in sum, was that everything was perfect. Maybe it was. The cooks were certainly aware that they were cooking for a food review and I am certain that they purposely put extra effort into ensuring perfection for his meal.

I visited Uncle Jack's with my mom, as a regular customer and my meal was not perfect. It was decent, but not perfect.

The part of his blog that left me the most astonished was when he said the restaurant offers different size steaks which therefore "makes a steak dinner affordable".

HAHA THAT'S FUNNY. The truth about Uncle Jack's is that is it outrageously expensive. The starting price for a steak is about $45 and it comes with... NOTHING. $45 for a piece of meat on a plate. Each side is at least $8 extra. Can you imagine?

Maybe this place is "affordable" for people who receive their entire meal for free, but for someone who has to reach into their wallet and pay-it is certainly the opposite.

Photographing Food Is A New Trend

It's Saturday night. You and your friends are out to eat at a new restaurant in town. The waitress comes and places all the plates of food down on the table. Yet instead of eating it while it's hot, everyone takes a picture of it for social media instead.

Why has posting food become the new pre-meal trend?

Maybe it's because our generation is obsessed with advertising every aspect of our daily lives on social media, and since we eat three meals a day broadcasting our food becomes essential.

But it also could be due to the fact that food has become 'cool'. Just look at Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg's new show that aired November 7, 2016. Who would have ever expected Martha Stewart, a 75 year old woman who started a catering business in her basement in 1976, to pair with Snoop Dogg, a 45 year old American rapper? See a clip of their show here:

This show is the epitome of what the food culture has turned into in recent years. Maybe it isn't entirely a bad thing, as people are more conscious of what they are eating and care more about things like food presentation. But as people are snapping pictures of their food, they are failing to appreciate the moment as it happens and are once again living life through a glass screen.

I am just interested in how long the trend will last...