Japanese love food porn

>>16588407
cause food is good.

>>16588407
>Is it a bubble era thing? Like, nobody has been able to enjoy gourmet food in 20 years so they have to enjoy it vicariously through entertainment media?
Uh, it's the opposite. Japan's culture in general has a pretty strong focus on food and cooking in many ways, clearly moreso than many other developed countries. Japan likes food.

>>16588465
I don't think you know what opposites are.

>>16588485
OP suggests that they've had a dip in cuisine so they use media as a substitute for what they don't have; no, they've been strong in cuisine for ages, and use media as an expression of what they do have.

>>16588638
OP here, I meant that average people can't afford gourmet food.

>>16588465
then how come they're not fat like western first world countries?

>>16593831
they eat healthy food anon

>>16593831
Having a focus on the culinary arts doesn't mean eating too much, much less eating unhealthily. I mean if you eat tonkatsu everyday you'll get fat and greasy but that's just neets.

Food is a central fixture of every culture that's ever existed. Stop trying to make everything you see in a chinese cartoon into a treatise on Japanese society just because you never leave your weeaboo bubble

>>16593831
They actually monitor their BMI and incentivize adhering to a suitable range and staying healthy.

They also have not stopped teaching kids how to actually cook meals.

2h per week in high school i think.

>>16593831
Not drinking 2 litres of pure sugar every meal helps.

>>16593917
Every culture eats, but not every culture fills media with lengthly scenes consisting mostly of people talking about how much they're looking forwards to eating food, marveling at how good the food in front of them looks, taking the first bite and commenting in unison on how tasty it is, inserting random commentary about how great every dish is throughout the meal, and then commenting that they're full after the meal.

>>16588407
It's part of the Twitter era, where good looking food connects with a ton of people regardless of backgrounds and it's something you can easily tweet about.

>>16601965
This actually seems like the most likely explanation
Japs love tweeting food

>>16595577
>They also have not stopped teaching kids how to actually cook meals.
I really wish high school had taught me home economics like this. Plenty of the skills they teach you have little practical application in your life, but cooking seems like an important skill to have for everyone, especially in a time when fast food or processed food is so easily accessible. Not to mention cooking is enjoyable.

>>16602030
Those skills did have practical application.

Fucking over the UDSSR.

>>16602018
Americans love tweeting pictures of food too. "Millennials" taking out their cameras to upload pictures of their meals to Instagram before eating is already a stereotype in the US. Do you people ever look outside?

>>16593917
Says somebody who can't compare two different cultures beyond "there is cooking"