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Category Archives: Disgust

Reflections on disgust after tasting Nutraloaf

October 11, 2016by Sara Davis 2 Comments

In an earlier draft of one of my dissertation chapters, I made one or two claims that leaned on the assumption that tasting food is rarely a neutral act and usually elicits […]

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Disgust, Non-food, Social Anxieties, Visual appeal and presentation

Food Music Playlist #11: Heartburn

April 13, 2015by Sara Davis 2 Comments

Last week, at 299 Twitter followers, I offered to let Number 300 pick the next music playlist theme. To my delight, the next follower was one of my favorite bookstores […]

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Body, Dessert, Disgust, Music

Search Term Sampler: “Late August”

September 26, 2014by Sara Davis Leave a comment

The term that led some anonymous seeker to my site: margaret atwood sex plums exploding That sounds exciting! I’ve definitely written about plums before, and Margaret Atwood does write some […]

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Disgust, Fruit, Mortality, Poetry, Search Term Sampler

Search Term Sampler: Food of the future

August 29, 2014by Sara Davis 4 Comments

Some bloggers love looking at and posting about the strange poetry of search terms that bring internet searchers to our sites. It’s satisfying to see how visible we are in […]

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Disgust, Food Distribution and Resources, Industrial/Processed Food, Literature, Novels, Search Term Sampler

The 5 Second Rule

March 10, 2014by Sara Davis 4 Comments

I recently finished  In the Kettle, the Shriek, a collection of poems by Hannah Stephenson, and was delighted to come across a poem called “Five Second Rule.” I do not […]

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Disgust, Manners, Poetry

Sugar, Skin, and Porcelain

January 13, 2014by Sara Davis 2 Comments

Via Colossal, these vintage dishes covered with hand-painted ants by Evelyn Bracklow are delightfully creepy. I love the way the artist mimicks the clustering of ants when they swarm a […]

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Class, Disgust, Gender, Race, Sculpture

The metaphors of mass consumerism

June 3, 2013by Sara Davis 3 Comments

Inequality by (interior) Design, a smart sociology blog you should be following if you aren’t already, included a shout-out to Janice Radway in a post describing the way books written […]

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Consumer Culture, Cultural connotations, Disgust, Language, Non-food, Poetry

Happy Valentine’s Day: Links and Love

February 13, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Those delectable (disgusting) little treats are hand-sculpted human hearts, made from marzipan and doused in probably too much red food coloring.  I made them with friends several years ago for […]

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Blog Notes, Dessert, Disgust, Holidays

Eating, enjoyment, and The Middlesteins

February 7, 2013by Sara Davis 2 Comments

Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins has been making a bit of a splash in the book business, not least because one of its main characters is morbidly obese. Though I suspect (perhaps with premature […]

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Body, Disgust, Family, Health, Literature, Novels, Senses

I Scream: Little Baby’s gross advertising tactics

September 11, 2012by Sara Davis 2 Comments

I meant to post about Little Baby’s creepy ice cream ad weeks ago, but it fell off my radar until someone dropped a .gif from it into an Email thread, […]

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Advertising, Aesthetics, Dairy, Dessert, Disgust, Performance

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