More analogies to food

Lately I’ve been using an analogy to practices with food, to talk with people about practices with media. Two interesting pieces offer some additional substance and complexity to my arguments. First, here’s a video clip (hat tip to apositivelutheran):

And here’s an interesting article thinking about online education in the higher ed context, which among other points, notes that:

Let's say you're invited to make a savory but unusual choice. Each night, you may get a fine four-course steak dinner from a drive-thru and eat it in your car on the way home. Or, you may elect to have burgers at home in the company of your family and friends. Taken alone, the four-course dinner may be more delicious and more nutritive, unquestionably the better assortment of consumable items. But is the meal better? Meal begins to sound like an ambiguous term. What do we mean by meal? Is a meal a social experience or an object we consume? These days we are asking the same of university classes.