I’d like to add: find a source of cheap, tasty salads that are “composed” by people who are better at matching tasty leaves to tasty salad toppings than you are! Salad composition is pretty noticeable; meaning, the range of tastiness between well-put-together, harmonious salads and thrown-together, random salads is pretty big. If you already don’t like veggies, then finding salad components and putting them together is too hard anyway, so pay someone else to do it thoughtfully!
Why can’t I describe this without using pretentious art words?
I hope they’re effective in this context! I think the concepts are similar, but I feel weird because I don’t want to connote the same importance about salads that artists do about artistic things.
Mm. Yeah, there’s a line, but it’s very fuzzy and hard to pin down, and your mileage will vary for any given example. I tend to find reading chain restaurant menus an exercise in pretension (fancy language dressing up far-less amazing food items), but just describing the sensory qualities of food in artsy language is often the best way to say what you actually mean—aesthetics can totally cross disciplines like that.
I’d like to add: find a source of cheap, tasty salads that are “composed” by people who are better at matching tasty leaves to tasty salad toppings than you are! Salad composition is pretty noticeable; meaning, the range of tastiness between well-put-together, harmonious salads and thrown-together, random salads is pretty big. If you already don’t like veggies, then finding salad components and putting them together is too hard anyway, so pay someone else to do it thoughtfully!
Why can’t I describe this without using pretentious art words?
Because they’re not actually inherently pretentious, and effectively serve your purposes in the right context?
I hope they’re effective in this context! I think the concepts are similar, but I feel weird because I don’t want to connote the same importance about salads that artists do about artistic things.
Mm. Yeah, there’s a line, but it’s very fuzzy and hard to pin down, and your mileage will vary for any given example. I tend to find reading chain restaurant menus an exercise in pretension (fancy language dressing up far-less amazing food items), but just describing the sensory qualities of food in artsy language is often the best way to say what you actually mean—aesthetics can totally cross disciplines like that.
Food is at least as important as art. Art only nourishes your mind, but food nourishes both mind and body.