Even junk food becomes food porn on Instagram
Presented before you is rolled beef polpettine, arranged with jalapeño-infused pomme de terre thins, miniature corn, and cheddar knots, topped with a fruity coulis designed by a world-renowned chef. Or, as it could be more accurately termed, corned beef balls with Pringles, baby corn, and string cheese, covered in Guy Fieri’s Mop & Slop BBQ sauce. Any food, it seems, can become fodder for our growing food porn obsession if you set it up neatly and put it on Instagram.
By far the best at mocking this modern phenomenon is mysterious chef Jacques la Merde. La Merde — “Jack Shit” — is devoted to building haute cuisine out of hot junk food and recording the results on Instagram, using terrible fast food and supermarket deli fare, and…
Source:: The Verge
