Instant Snobbery

Dong Ha thinks that our fam­ily is some­what food snobbish.

I don’t think that’s quite right… we were cer­tainly raised to appre­ci­ate food. In fact, my whole extended fam­ily is pretty food-​centric. We appre­ci­ate good ingre­di­ents. We were taught to be culi­nar­ily adven­tur­ous. (We always go out to try new dishes and then try to fig­ure out how they were made in order to re-​create them at home.)

That said, I don’t think we’re snobs. I enjoyed SPAM as much as the next per­son before I turned veg­e­tar­ian. But I mean, taste (as in pref­er­ence, not gus­ta­tion) isn’t a bad thing. And my par­tic­u­lar pref­er­ences can be pretty inex­plic­a­ble anyway.

For instance, take the following:

(from Can­d­wich and Gigizine [in Japanese].)

The are both instant foods of ques­tion­able ori­gin. What makes one seem so appeal­ing and the other so revolt­ing? The world may never know.

Tags: Dong Ha, Family, Food