Whine & Cheese is just what it says, me whining and cheesing. Since this is a welcome post, I’ll stick to cheese. I heard a new phrase the other day that made me chuckle. That phrase was “food porn”. Food porn is pictures of delectable edibles that most of us will never eat. Cakes that are amazing and not like the drunken Count von Count I made for my son’s first birthday, but more like the Electric Mayhem tour bus with the entire Muppets cast hanging out of the windows.

And really, if you haven't watched the Muppet Movie lately you should. All sorts of releveant things in there, bollywood references, interspecies dating, and even Instagrow pills. But movin' right along....

This post was about Food Porn. Food Porn even has an actual website, FoodPornDaily.com where people post pictures of lovely looking food. The whole idea of food porn got me thinking though. Are we overdoing diets? Is this aq backlash against "Fat America"? Who knows for sure, but if you know me, then you know I have an opinion.

I think its some of both. American's have gotten fatter than ever. There's a website for that too, go figure! FatteningofAmerica.com is basically a sales site for a book that was written relating economic factors to weight gain. This is interesting to me in a couple of respects. One, if you look at literature from countries where famine is prevelant or even authors like Chaucer, you'll see that Fat is equated to Wealthy. So this idea of economic factors making people fat is not a new one. Second, and more interesting, is what impact does the economy have on the "Have Nots" of a society? Are our poorest members the fattest or thinest? That I don't have a website for, but the Oxford University Press did produce an article titled "Association between socioeconomic status, weight, age and gender, and the body image and weight control practices of 6- to 19-year-old children and adolescents." A short and pithy title if I do say so myself. The study, done by Jennifer A. O'Dea and Petere Caputi came to the conclusion that lower socioeconomic children tended towards overweight.

So, what do I think? I think size does matter. I think that our least expensive foods are the worst for you. I think food porn is awesome!