Why Food Pictures?

I read this post, This Restaurant Has Banned Its Patrons From Snapping Food Porn and decided to type something on it. 

The reason why I take pictures of food and write reviews, it's really for my own self, keep it as a memory. I have been to numerous restaurants in my life and most of them don't exist anymore. This is one reason why I want to take pictures of the food. The place may be gone when I want to go back again. If I have a picture at least I know I have been there before and remember how good (or bad) the food and the restaurant was.

There are always new gimmicks or beautifully plated food out there nowadays. After awhile people aren't interested anymore and the restaurant/café closes down. This is one reason why I want to go try before they close down. You never know.

I know taking pictures of food can annoy some people, some people just want to eat right away. I understand and don't mind. Please let me know if that does annoy anyone. I'll just take pictures of my own food. Good thing most of my friends know I take pictures of food and I do reviews. =)

Banning food porn is a pro and con to restaurants I think. The pro would be people will focus more on their food and taste the actual flavour (I still do that if I take pictures of food or how am I gonna write about it?). They will enjoy the restaurant atmosphere more. They may have a great chat with whoever they are with or an awkward meal. If they want to ban food porn might as well ban cellphones. Then they can really focus on their food.

Con, if it's not these food porn, less people will know about the restaurant. Sometimes the look of the food attract people to go try. A lot of people these days pick restaurants based on reviews.

However, taste of food is really personal, some people might find it delicious and some might find it horrible. It depends on who made the food that day and the mood of the chef. You just have to go try it yourself.

I think that's all I wanted to say. Typed this awhile back.