Cooking with Dante

From what I've seen, certain cooking videos on the Internet are more about trying to sell you merchandise or make you subscribe to their content, rather than actually teaching you how to cook. The worst ones are the videos that don't do any talking at all and just use some lazily-selected stock music track for the audio -- I'm watching the video to cook sausages, not burn up the dance floor.

Final Countdown

As the year comes to a close once again, I'm stuck with boxes of food from various social gatherings as well as a pile of largely expired (but unopened) food items that I should probably get around to eating before it starts posing more of a threat to my health. Because it won't a pandemic that gets me, it'll be that pack of Ghost Pepper Mamee Noodles I've been saving for... something.

FOMO

Little known fact about life: Whenever people you know eat at a certain place, they often experience the most delicious, life-changing food they've ever eaten. But whenever you go to the same place (and perhaps even eat the same food items), the food is just average. Either your standard for food is really high, your peers are exaggerating middling food or the restaurateur hates you for no reason.

Delegation

This is probably the reason why I tend not to do food buying favours for people anymore. Even worse, when you're in a group at a restaurant and have to painstakingly recall what food and item combinations everyone ordered. Look, I go to a restaurant to eat, not play "Dr Kawashima's Brain Training".

Food Alchemy

A reference to that all-time classic anime series revolving around moral ambiguities and The Law of Equivalent Exchange. Also a reference to the massively complicated list of ingredients you normally find on the labels of your favourite canned foods, I suppose. Like, what the heck is "partially defatted peanut flour" anyway?!

Endless Appetite

You know those days when you suddenly have the capacity to eat three platefuls of meat, and then other days you can barely finish a couple of garlic bread slices? Even worse, these fluctuations in appetite never seem to play into your favour, so you're often either not very hungry at an all-you-can-eat buffet, or very hungry when you're trying to diet. Darn stomach, I would punch you if it wasn't such a critical internal organ!

Price-cream

Inspired mostly by my general malaise at how ridiculously expensive places like Ben & Jerry's can charge you for a few measly scoops of sugary gold. Yes, I admit their ice-cream is actually some top-notch stuff, though it wold be more enjoyable if it didn't cost me an arm and a leg... Whether I mean that literally is up to you, pal.