The Foodies, The Food Trippers, and The Food2graph

Recently more and more people are posting foods on social medias, I admit I'm one of them :-) I remember nung umuwi ako for vacation, our family had a dinner and after we prayed for the food, me and my siblings took pictures of those foods. 

Bakit kelangan na picturan ang mga pagkain? wag nyo sabihin ipopost nyo pa rin sa Facebook? Mommy said. Well, I don't have any idea where food posts started and why do really people do it. All I know is from my side, nakakatuwa lang na may babalikbalikan ka when you saw that food again on the picture parang marerecall mo ulit ang lasa.
Foodie, food2graph and foodstagramming? Are you familiar to those craze?

Well lets take our Food 101 class and as a partial of "My Eid Al Fitr 2013" here are some of the photos that you guys have sent and posted in response to my blog invitation. Thank you so much ^_^ 

The Foodies  

Foodie is a person that spends a keen amount of attention and energy on knowing the ingredients of the food, the proper preparation of the food, and finds great enjoyment in top notch ingredients and exemplary preparation.

Its not only the chef that can be a foodie nor the ladies in the kitchen but recently we've seen that more and more gentlemen can be seen doing cooking chores or posting their own newly discovered recipes. The best way to a woman's heart is through stomach din naman, kaya guys try nyo maging-foodie who knows you might get her sweet "yes" after tasting your tempting chocolate mouse or cheesy cheesy cake.

One of my male cousin Jep is a foodie, he loves to bake and he do it well. Aside that it runs on his blood as his mom Tita Ella is such a great baker, the interest of discovering recipes in really within him. 

 Red Velvet Cupcake by Jep Perez

Ate Che, 33 and a cousin of mine also loves to be in front of her laptop to research new recipes. She's spend her free time with her pan and oven to cook and bake.

Banana cupcake with cinnamon toppings by Che Cleofe

Baking for them is just a hobby but they are thinking as well if they can venture into business. Since I don't have cooking or baking skills I might be their marketing agent :-) so if you want to have and taste their red velvet cupcake and banana cupcake or cake just let me know. And not to mention their cheesy cheesecake as in ang sarap! If you are one of my visitor on my 31st birthday and tasted the strawberry cheesecake, its Jep's recipe too.

I'm happy to be surrounded by foodies and I'm hoping to get the same passion and interest they have in cooking and baking, sabi nga ni Mommy baka daw ibalik ako ng parents in law ko sa kanila kapag di ako natutong magluto, well ang sagot ko kaya nga po ang hahanapin ko yung magaling magluto :-) Well I know naman to cook, I'm not really into kitchen that much, but I assure you I know how ^_^

Food cravings and Food2graph

Food craving is an intense desire to consume a specific food than the normal hunger. More and more photos of food are being posted on different social sites everyday some are captioned "my cravings for the day" or "craving for this"  The act of taking photos of those mouthwatering foods and uploading it to different social media sites and tempting even the least hunger person to see it is called food2graph. If before those mouthwatering foods are only seen in advertisement for the company to promote their products not nowadays, the consumers themselves are the one who's promoting for free the food offered by food chains or restaurants. Kahit walang advertisement kikita at dadayuhin ang balot, fishball and isaw vendor kasi nakita sa post mo.

Here are some of the pictures I've got during Eid Holidays when people crave much and food porn are flooding in social sites.

 Halo-halo from Jollibee Doha

 

Enjoying the first day of Eid Al Fitr  

Most OFWs are still cravings for panlasang Pinoy, kahit na sabihin na naglevel up na ang afford na bilhin or mga restaurants and food chains na pwedeng kainan. Sabi nga iba talaga ang lutong Pinoy :-) 

And for those who love to stay at home and be with their family, the best pa rin ang lutong bahay and I guess it will save you more kasi if ang ipupunta mo lang sa mall is to satisfy your food cravings I'm sure paguwi mo ng bahay may paper bag ka ng bitbit :-)

Pero kahit namimiss natin ang mga pagkaing Pinoy, we can't deny  the fact na may mga local foods din dito na hinahanap ng panlasa natin kung minsan like shwarma, kebab, or lamb chops na kahit talagang super dami ng tao you'll be willing to wait just to satisfy your cravings.

 

Some of the people on holidays really enjoyed going to the malls but aside from shopping hindi rin nawawala ang pagkain. Some people are curious to try the newly opened restaurants, coffee shops, or food chains. Its not only about cravings some of them are just "food trips"

 Mocha Latte Iced Coffee and Cinnamon roll from Tim Hortons

 Food trippers - its their first time at Tim Hortons

 After coffee and doughnuts, a cup of ice cream from Coldstone

 Dinner at Chowking, Dar Al Salam Mall

No wonder why people gained weight after holidays, so guys don't ask me why I do :-) Its good thing we didn't had any food comma during our eating trips.

Food Coma

From the word itself "comma" which means stagnant, food coma is a state where in the person is generally lethargic, lazy and very full upon eating. The cause of the food coma is eating too much carbohydrates rich foods and drinking too much wine with a meal.

To relieved from food coma, one can unbutton their pants so their stomach can expand and take a short nap followed by dessert. Note only short nap and not deep sleep.

Foodstagrammers 

That's what they will call you if you are one of those obsessively taking picture on every food you eat and post it to social medias.

Some restaurants especially fine dining and hotels have stopped customers in taking pictures of their food, not because they doesn't want to be posted but because the flash from the camera sometimes bothered and annoyed others. So if you are a foodstagrammer be sure to observe this kind of manner.

Everyone of us has our own cravings. Our taste buds are different from each other - ang masarap sa'yo pwedeng di masarap sa akin, but in the end for sure if food trip magkakasundo rin!

And take note guys if you food craver or food trippers be sure not to waste foods, minsan we are only "takaw tingin" then wala na mapapatapon lang ang mga pagkain. Be sure that you'll consume what you have as I've always said kapag may nakikita akong nasasayang na pagkain "maraming taong nagugutom" 

No matter what kinds or types of food you have on your plate it will taste better if you'll eat with your family or friends.

Happy Food trip foodies and foodstagrammers! 

Note: The blogger updated this post, instead of "food porn" she used food2graph. She changed it for some personal reasons.