It’s an invitation to talk about comfort foods, restaurants, cooking at home, something dad used to make, types of cuisine, recipes, and also how much work goes into making food. It’s not about the specific taste, it’s about opening further topics of conversation.
Yeah, a better question would be “What kinds of foods are you in to?” but it often goes into a ‘favourites’ list that is easy to overthink. I still spend overly long trying to think of perfect movie/song/whatever answers.
I would point to parkour games like Confessions that were popular in victorian times. Even Marx was asked about favourites, though it was asked as favourite dish and not food.
The important part is to talk through your thought process. It’s okay to say “I can’t think of a favourite off the top of my head but here are things I like a lot”. As long as the convo is flowing. And it can still trip up in the moment, have to recognise it and find a good way for yourself to get past it.
Yeah I try to interpret it that way now and usually try to think of what I’m into in the moment. Favorite movie halts my brain tho lmao, I always want to answer Interstellar and then I just argue with myself in my head
That’s interesting to hear, though. Making someone curious why you want to answer Interstellar but are conflicted. But I feel that, it’s hard to turn off suddenly trying to think “What is my favourite?” and getting distracted in the moment.
It’s an invitation to talk about comfort foods, restaurants, cooking at home, something dad used to make, types of cuisine, recipes, and also how much work goes into making food. It’s not about the specific taste, it’s about opening further topics of conversation.
I wish they’d phrase it differently, I always freeze up when I’m asked a “favorite” because my brain starts trying to figure out what I like the most
Yeah, a better question would be “What kinds of foods are you in to?” but it often goes into a ‘favourites’ list that is easy to overthink. I still spend overly long trying to think of perfect movie/song/whatever answers.
I would point to parkour games like Confessions that were popular in victorian times. Even Marx was asked about favourites, though it was asked as favourite dish and not food.
The important part is to talk through your thought process. It’s okay to say “I can’t think of a favourite off the top of my head but here are things I like a lot”. As long as the convo is flowing. And it can still trip up in the moment, have to recognise it and find a good way for yourself to get past it.
Yeah I try to interpret it that way now and usually try to think of what I’m into in the moment. Favorite movie halts my brain tho lmao, I always want to answer Interstellar and then I just argue with myself in my head
That’s interesting to hear, though. Making someone curious why you want to answer Interstellar but are conflicted. But I feel that, it’s hard to turn off suddenly trying to think “What is my favourite?” and getting distracted in the moment.