Saturday 8 December 2012

Tfl Smelly foods ad sinister or savoury

I noticed this poster on the under ground saying please don't eat smelly food and this got me thinking
what foods don't smell
the smell of food is part of the process of tasting
From fresh baked cookies to cod and chips
also that there is no reason given why they don't want people to eat smelly food on the tube
Also their is nothing saying not to bring smelly food upon the tube and wouldn't that just defeat the object of the poster and its plea
And wouldn't eating the smelly food reduce the mass of smelly food and you get left with the less area based aroma
But the more analytic side of me finds that this is a polite way of being rude for the smelly food seems not to mean one of an english variety but of an other sort
Also the absence of reasoning behind it is also suspect if it were because other people may be hungry it would go against the capitalist nature of the underground which whores its walls and even its carriages with adverts advertising all manner of things and the fact exiting certain tube station one is sometimes made aware of the nearest "restaurant" usually being MacDonald's

If it is distress it kinds of questions the morality of the people who are being distressed for is it over sensitiveness is it because the smell is putrid and if so i don't think anyone will be eat food as such like a raw fish straight from the market and since london is such a multicultural place any food brought upon its tube and train service will have a shop of origin it can be purchased at even if the food is homemade
so what is the main difference between whiffing it on the street to that of the train
the answer people would say is duration
but the tube is a beehive of interconnection how long could one be on a tube line with someone with "odourous food" maximum an hour and even if they weren't eating it what could they do about the smells on their person

food is made for consumption so foul smelling foods will in general be avoided except for the durian which is not epidemically eaten in the uk undergrounds which gets you on to who complained about food on the underground and who was more worried about them eating said food than having said food unless they also worried about them having said food but knew you couldn't ban it so went pc with don't eat

Also since it is merely a suggestion a request what would stop the people eating smelly food are they going to  have smelly food enforcers patrolling the tube tram and railways and call them something pc like environment supervisors

i won't jump to say its pc racism but it indefinably something covert which fails to address any questions and adds more to the bunch

p.s. will they start recommending non smelly foods with the tube map

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