Please stop.

With the guardrails down and the bus dangerously tilting into the ravine on the turns, the talking heads upfront joined together to repeat the refrain “Shalom, he should just go home” on the daily news as the First Amendment was turned into an irrelevant detail. This post was supposed to be a follow-up to My Last reaching out to those in the Jewish community who are fighting the madness that is being perpetrated in their name by MAGA in concert with Jewish Supremacy groups.

But something more urgent has come up.

Expressions of foodgasms are reaching pandemic levels. No matter your algorithm, a few swipes in—if not the very first post—you’ll be assailed by someone taking a fist-sized bite of their latest culinary triumph and melting into a slow-motion orgasm. Eyes shut, body swaying, moaning with pleasure.

When was this normalized?

Far be it from me to police people’s joy. Food is pleasure, and maybe—just maybe—some people really do experience deep-throated arousal from a well-toasted grilled cheese. Fine. I will allow that. But who, exactly, asked to see their faces in flagrante delicto?

If we were being forced to witness the rare moment when someone encounters an orchestra of flavors they’ve never experienced, I would simply have looked the other way. Although I would have thought a genuine experience along those lines would be more wonder than whoopee, had this been the case, I would have just gone on my merry way. But no, this is now every food post, every day.

Not to go all slippery slope on you but someone will soon up the ante and so we must ask ourselves, what’s next? In-mouth cameras streaming the dirty act of mastication.

Let’s be honest – if food is your profession, if you taste and critique it every day, are you really experiencing daily papillae erections? Every single thing you slap together—every slice of avocado toast, every sip of bone broth—is just so exquisite that your gustatory cells blow your eyes shut?

Have you no decency Sir? Madam? Siredam?

Please stop.

And if you share my distress, please reach out to the billionaire dictating online decency in your part of the world and ask them to show some integrity by putting foodgasms behind a paywall. Do it for the children.