Why ignore an entire range of senses?

( clockworkrat has nice pants, Fri 27 May 2011, 11:03, 3 replies)

It's not ignoring them, food just doesn't inspire me.
It's the same with cars, or fashionable jumpers, or small electronic gadgets. They just strike me as functional.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 27 May 2011, 11:08, closed)

Everyone's dull about something.
For e.g., I don't think classical music is a big deal. I don't understand the differences between the forms and composers, and some piece or section my brother will proclaim to be 'revolutionary' or 'sublime' or 'genius' sounds like...classical music. He thinks I'm an uncultured boor.
Vagabond is like that with food. It happens.

Actually, I love cooking, so I had to think for a while to avoid being extremely confrontational about it. I hope you appreciate my effort, Vag, you dull grey uninteresting bastard with no notion of joy.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 27 May 2011, 11:12, closed)

Agree
though to be fair, you don't get people going on about different smells in the same way as they do for food.

Food isn't just about taste though, it's smell and touch, and it's also a social thing. Notice how many 'best food' experiences on here are actually just quite good food in an awesome setting.

People talk about food as if the pleasure is somehow objectively derived from the meal itself, but you wouldn't think it was strange if someone was telling you their 'best sex' experience and the story was all about the context, rather than the act.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 27 May 2011, 11:15, closed)