Food Porn Index Wants to Fulfill Your Carrot Fantasy
In DepthDo you love food porn? Of course you do! Who doesn’t? Communists, that’s who! And hey, you know what’s especially fun to look at with food porn? Fruits and veggies, which are rich in — WAIT, NO, COME BACK, I MUST TELL YOU OF THE WONDERS OF BRUSSELS SPROUTS.
In an effort to promote interest in fruits and vegetables, Bolthouse Farms (a carrot and juice company, it needs to be noted) started the Food Porn Index, a website that tracks the food hashtags used on Twitter and Instagram in order to see what’s trending. When you click on certain foods, it takes you to riveting internet games like “guac-a-mole” and “melon meditation,” because apparently this is 1996 and they’re taking their cues from what the Space Jam homepage wished it could be.