[ SECRET POST #5701 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5701 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[feotakahari]

My mother likes this stuff. I’ve never understood why.

[philstar22]

I like books with a lot of description in general. I just like it when I can really picture the world, immerse myself in it. Not food specifically. Just a lot of description in general.

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

[(Anonymous)]

That is how Enid Blyton used to pad her page count, famously so.

A lot of people are out there eating cheap beige, flavorless, food. They want to experience something else, even if it is just in their imaginations.

[(Anonymous)]

Wartime rationing is responsible for a lot of food descriptions in mid-century British children's writing. Rationing went on for 14 years iirc.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it didn't finish until 1955, though it got less bad as time went on. My grandparents moved to South Africa in 1950 and were greeted with a basket of food and fresh fruit. They thought this was their ration for the month and were astounded to find that no, it was a welcome gift.

[(Anonymous)]

In the couple of years after the war rationing intensified, not only was the UK having to shoulder the burden of trying to feed Mainland Europe, but the US cut off all food aid to the UK too. The land was basically exhausted after years of intensive food production, prior to the introduction of chemical fertilizers, too, so the UK could barely feed itself and its returning troops. To which India, no doubt, gave a long hard bitter laugh and said "what goes around, sahib, what goes around".

[(Anonymous)]

It's why it was actually plausible that Edmund Pevensie would sell out his whole family to the White Witch for some fancy candy.

[(Anonymous)]

Rich gooey Turkish Delight? Yeah, I'd sell mine right now. How much you want for them?

[(Anonymous)]

Ha! Is one of them Cat Valente?

[(Anonymous)]

I love food descriptions in books. It actually bugs me when there's scenes of characters eating but we get no details on the food.

[(Anonymous)]

How does it feel to be so wrong.

[kallanda_lee]

Well now I'm hungry lol

[(Anonymous)]

If it got in the way of the writing and was too distracting, I wouldn't care for it myself. But I like food descriptions as part of the world building of a story and... well, I just like food, period.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it adds flavor (ha) to the scenery. I read a lot of fantasy, so describing rich banquets really give a sense of class and opulence, while things like bread and potatoes makes the setting a bit more mundane. I don't care for overlong descriptions, but some is definitely appreciated when building a scene.

[(Anonymous)]

I wholeheartedly agree. A well chosen line or two about the crispness of the wine or some other sensory detail like that can be nice, but beyond that I just find it boring. Like, I don't mind a bit of sensual detail, but I literally do not care at all about the food for the food's sake.

[(Anonymous)]

SA - I should've added that of course there are places where a bit more description makes sense. If the POV character is starving, for instance. Or if they're used to scarcity and are now confronted by opulence--or vice versa. Or if they're a stranger in a strange land and are experiencing food unlike anything they've ever had before. That kind of thing.

[meadowphoenix]

I love food descriptions, but outside of like Redwall genre fiction, and books which have cultural food that maybe isn't familiar to the audience it's selling to, I think most books are doing it so that they can sell the cookbook if it gets popular, ngl.

[meadowphoenix]

This isn't a read or shade, btw, I would definitely buy the cookbook.

[(Anonymous)]

I like food descriptions! I think it opens avenues for both reader and writer to get a bit more of a glimpse of the world/characters in the story. And IMO it often adds to the mood of the scene.