{"id":3474,"date":"2010-04-20T12:08:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2010-04-20T10:33:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:33:41","slug":"qotd-food-porn-and-subversive-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/qotd-food-porn-and-subversive-humour\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Food porn and subversive humour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The KFC Double Down makes me despair. Not because of the \u201csandwich\u201d itself but because of the predictable reaction; in general, if you didn\u2019t know that the thing was made of chicken, bacon, and processed cheese, you would get the impression that it was lovingly constructed from scorpions and poison. [. . .] <\/p>\n

But which side in the war between soulless conglomerates and food puritans has irony on its side? KFC has literally rearranged the same ingredients that go into most every other grab-and-go entr\u00e9e it serves, and gotten rid of the bread, which, guess what, might not be that good for you anyway. The sinister Elders of Tricon, who were surely lit unflatteringly from above in an austere modernist boardroom when they made the decision to create the Double Down, knew perfectly well that it would create panic and horror for no other reason than its configuration<\/em>. The Double Down is, explicitly and unapologetically, a piece of food comedy.<\/p>\n

And all the horrible people — for it seems virtually impossible to talk about food without being horrible — are reacting exactly as planned. The unapologetically paternalistic healthitarians, the grease-sweating Warcraft-playing fast-food reverse-snobs, the one-idea-in-their-whole-head theorists of food salvation, the paleos and the Pollanites, the narcissistic Nietzscheans who look at cheese as though it was about to go critical any second but will buy whatever\u2019s new on the shelves at the GNC without so much as looking at the label . . . all the people, in short, who routinely insist on adulterating the pleasure of eating, and that includes, most of all, the types who\u2019ve imbibed too much M.F.K. Fisher and who write pornographically about the \u201cpleasure of eating\u201d as if they were zooming a powerful camera in on an open mouth furiously masticating a mouthful of gnocchi.<\/p>\n

Colby Cosh, “The Double Down: your move, America”, Macleans<\/em><\/a>, 2010-04-20<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The KFC Double Down makes me despair. Not because of the \u201csandwich\u201d itself but because of the predictable reaction; in general, if you didn\u2019t know that the thing was made of chicken, bacon, and processed cheese, you would get the impression that it was lovingly constructed from scorpions and poison. [. . .] But which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,57,41],"tags":[52,322,408,546],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-absurd","tag-nannystate","tag-pornography","tag-viewing-with-alarm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-U2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}