Is it cake?
Though, at the time they offered a way to spruce up a tablescape, now the images Pallai posts mostly just make us snort with laughter. For Pallai, @70sdinnerparty is a rejection of the virtue signaling on Instagram around food as wellness and an endorsement of eating for fun. “It’s a childish thing, you know?” she says. “People like crafts and making things. Well, this is the stupid end of it.”
The current surge in culinary trompe l’oeil might also be born of the endless stream of doom we’re constantly scrolling through. After all, outlandish art has often come out of challenging times. The satirical Dada movement and surrealist painting both flourished after World War I as artists grappled with the inconceivable horrors they’d endured.
Just before we log off Zoom, Pallai asks if I’ve heard of the Lemon Pig Phenomenon that swept @70sdinnerparty back in 2017. That New Year’s Eve, she posted an old magazine clipping of a lemon pig with toothpick legs and a coin in its mouth to warrant good luck in the coming year. Before she knew it, hundreds of others—and now it’s an annual tradition. “In a collective sense, we can do something a little silly and fun for an evening,” she says.
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