“And thus Caesar’s salad was struck down by 23 daggers, all laced with the foulest of poisons – Ketchup.”
— Me (just now)
About The Site
An enjoyment of food has been at the forefront of my life for as long as I can remember. Almost as important to me is having a catalog of meals to look back upon in later life. The hope is that the pictures and experiences documented within can serve as a touchstone to remember my youth and to observe how I have changed as I’ve aged.
These posts originally would mostly be short notes shared amongst my friends, but I often wondered if I could start sharing with a wider audience. This blog aims to be my answer to that.
Each post in this blog documents an individual experience surrounding a meal that I have had, be it a frozen TV dinner, a homemade breakfast burrito, a tasting menu at a Michelin star restaurant, or anything in between. The post will contain a brief review of the meal, a rating following the guide below, and a more lengthy discussion of the meal’s circumstances.
The Rating Guide
The ratings on this blog are mostly nonsensical, as I like food too much to be objective on any particular dish (if a sense of objectivity is even humanly possible). With this in mind let me unveil the world’s greatest rating schema!
General Format
Each and every rating will appear in the format [score] [emoji] [+/-]. See
below for the breakdown of each part.
[score]
| Score | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Death | I should not have eaten this. I think I might die. |
| Bad | It certainly is edible. |
| Ok | It was fine but not something I would crave. |
| Good | It was something I enjoyed eating. |
| Great | It was superb, and I wish I could have more. |
| Peak | Does there exist anything better in the cosmos? |
[emoji]
The accompanying emoji to each rating will convey – as is the point of emojis – my principal emotion during this meal. Use your best judgement when decoding the riddles within.
[+/-]
Ratings need to be context aware. You can’t say that a 15 course meal from a fancy restaurant on your birthday is somehow better or worse than a home cooked stew your parents make you when you are sick.
Well you could, I suppose, but you would also be wrong.
With this in mind, each of the ratings will be appended by a + or a -. This
will answer the question of
“Given the context, was this meal something that was ‘worth it’?”
for whatever definition of ‘worth it’ makes sense.
Examples
Example Rating | Possible Scenario |
|---|---|
Death 🙏 + | I found some berries on the side of a mountain while starving. They saved me from malnourishment but they tasted like poison. |
Great 💸 - | The meal was fantastic, but it cost way too much money |
Ok 😑 + | The average meal. It was fine and I would eat it again |