A 1 star meal

As I skimmed through the list of blog sites, I became overwhelmed; the sites just continued on. I wanted to look at most of them but my lack of patience tends to get the best of me, therefore I read a good variety of blogs to assure myself I made the attempt to actually look. After awhile, I shown interest to a particular blog, Here To Eat: Ace Eats America 10 Plate at a Time. The blogger, Anthony Nguyen, sampled dishes and post his experiences about the dishes on his blog. His page consists of personal interaction with the readers, pictures of the dishes he ate, and his critique on the items. He presented himself as an actual food critique to “usual” American cuisines; his page layout included a picture and title of the meal, price and ratings, and his thoughts on the meal. For instance, the first meal I noticed looked like vomit on a hotdog bun but he titled it as a Circle K Sausage/Egg/ Cheese Roller Bite, which make sense now because gas station food isn’t very satisfying, speaking from experience.  Anyhow, he labels the price and rates it with one star, go figure, while explaining his encounter with the meal. He begins with bullet points that list his steps to retrieving the food, then he adds in a little commentary of his personal thoughts, in this case he outlined a possible sales pitch for this hotdog. Continuing, he describes his first bite experience and compares it to a gut wrenching incident, considering where it came from I believe it, and warns the reader that eating such foolery could lead to stomach flu. If I played role of a critique to this blog site, similar to Anthony’s method, I would give him three stars. His language is personal; yet, anyone read his blog could relate to his experience; he offers similar stories that relates to the reader and his humorous attitude draws the reader in. The purpose could range from him being bored to actually wanting to illustrate his experience with “everyday” meals with his readers, which seems to work because he has quite a number of views, 1562 to be precise.

Now if someone, say for instance a scholarly author, such as Pierre Bourdieu wanted to expand on my mediocre critique of the blog and convey his personal thoughts he would probably take it further than the meal and focus on the blogger instead. Based on his article Taste of Luxury, Taste of Necessity that acknowledges food as a classification of class, he probably would insist that Anthony is a middle class, full time student, fact not belief, that could only afford the basics such as gas station food. Even though he use his blog as leisurely activity, his choice of food to critique could have range from Lamb to the mere necessity of beans; however his choice of food illustrate his lack of culture and his choice of language would be its supportive argument.