Eric LeMay
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Virtual Sugar Rush
Hi Stephanie, Thanks for starting off our candy-centric week with this fascinating post. The sheer scale of these microtransaction opportunities is surprising. And staggering. Like the Google search-engine fortune, it's hard to imagine so much capita ... -
Haute Couture, Haute Cuisine
Thank you for this insightful post, Carlnita. You're spot on that our consumption of candy and our fantasies about it evoke excess. There's no need when it comes to candy. When someone says something non-ironically like, "I need a Snickers, ... -
Retrospective Resentment
Thank you for this intriguing post, Natalia. The dynamic you point out between the commercials and the user comments is fascinating. (I don't read Russian, but I note the number of exclamation marks and emoticons.) I wonder if there's a possible ... -
Feeling Like a Chump
Thanks, Sammi, for this keen post. I found myself smiling during the commercial, which of course made me feel like a wonderfilled chump. Your point about the reality of sugar is an alarming one. And it's probably no linguistic coincidence that compan ... -
I Want (to Do What I Want with) Candy
Thanks so much for these thoughtful responses to my post. I find myself musing on everything from candy and realistic representation to candy and color theory to my favorite flavor of Starburst. What strikes me foremost from our conversation is how illumi ... -
The Burger Remix
Sarah and Aaron, thank you for these thoughtful and incisive responses to my post. I think you're both right that the charge from the pieces on The Burger Foundation comes from the fact that the burger is one of the few "traditional" Americ ... -
Bacon Is Royalty Free
Thanks, Helle, for this post. I'm glad to have a chance to respond to it in this reprise. You rightly note how food is functioning as a metonym for character in so many shows that aren't ostensibly about food. As Carinita nicely points out, food ... -
Awareness-Raising as Activism
Thank you, Hannah, for this thoughtful commentary. I've glad that this reprise gives me the chance to respond to it. You raise an insightful question, "Can food bloggers be food activists?" Watching the video, it seems part of the answer li ... -
Longing and, perhaps, fulfillment?
Thank you for this post, Carlnita. You make a keen point that these highly aestheticized images of food catalyze and express our fantasies, not only about food, but about the lives—or lifestyles—for which they serve as metonyms. In this light, Helle' ... -
Industrial-Sized Suspicions
Thanks, Sarah, for starting the week off with your fine insights on such a provocatively revolting image. I think you're right that these sorts of images stoke a cultural wide anxiety about what we can't see happening in our food production syst ...