This Week in Food Porn: Chocolate Sauce and Chicken Soup

Guys, we've nearly done it. We've nearly made it through what has been, by any measure, a monstrous kick-in-the-crotch of a year. But, before we get there, we might as well stop along the way to smell the soup bowls and pick the pastry. After all, there will always be more meals.

Here are some of the most photogenic, organic, and panoramic dishes uploaded to Instagram this week. A bientot.

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A photo posted by Sneже '77 (@_____schneewittchen_____) on Dec 9, 2016 at 12:49am PST

Oh, look what you did! That is so adorable! You've laid those two chilis out like large, red flaccid dicks! Thank YOU. Oh, yes, the heart. Well sure, the heart's nice too. I mean, beans or whatever. Yeah, good one.

Labneh @thegoodegg_ with @helencathcart - lovely to catch up with our awesome publisher @hoxtonminipress who've had a busy and productive year producing gorgeous books. @eastlondonfood is out now, fresh from , a perfect Christmas pressie for the food lover in your life

A photo posted by Rosie Birkett (@rosiefoodie) on Dec 2, 2016 at 7:46am PST

While I believe it to be inhumane to put something as naive as yogurt under too much strain, it's hard to argue when you're facing a bowl as beautiful as this. Strained yogurt, anxious curd, worried cheese, overworked butter—I'll eat them all if they look good enough.

Tym razem mamy dla Was klasyczny przepis z kiszoną kapustą - bigos Do najnowszego numeru przygotowała go @gotujzkasia razem z mężem #bigos #klasyka #kiszonakapusta #kapusta #daniezkotła #danie #jednogarnkowe #magazynkulinarny #kociol #dolnyslask #fotografiakulinarna #cabbage #sourcabbage #dinner #polishcousine #polishfood #yummy #tummy #foodphotography #foodstyling #foodphoto #foodpics #foodblogger #foodporn #foodpost #instafood #foodstagram #gotujzkasia #magazynkociol

A photo posted by Magazyn Kocioł (@magazynkociol) on Dec 8, 2016 at 10:41am PST

Oh, look children! It's a cauldron full of wet cornflakes, bits of grit, greasy cabbage, and a great big wooden spoon. Now, why don't you back through the woods to tell grandma that lunch is ready?

Gelato with Chocolate Sauce @aromagelato.id #Instafood #f52grams #foodstagram #foodporn #food #foodgasm #foodies #tasty #vscofood #buzzfeedfood #eeeeeats #streetfood #feedfeed #buzzfeast #indonesia #Jakarta #foodstagram #Video #Buzzfeed #Jktfoodbang #instagram #instagood

A photo posted by JAKARTA FOOD BANGERS (@jktfoodbang) on Dec 8, 2016 at 11:26pm PST

Like fruit-flavoured condoms, scented toilet roll and non-fitted bed sheets, I've always rather wondered about chocolate body paint. I mean what is it really for? Who buys it? What's the point of it exactly? Who wants to either eat pube-threaded chocolate-flavoured paste off someone's arse cheeks, or have brown stuff smeared all over their breasts? I'm genuinely interested.

Tàrtar d'ostra i caviar Per Sé!! Autèntic gust a mar! #ElsTinars #Llagostera

A photo posted by @elstinars on Dec 8, 2016 at 9:42am PST

It's amazing how beautiful you can make an old concrete shoe full of snot and pond scum look, isn't it? (Let me say right here and now: I absolutely love oysters and would swallow them by an effluent outlet if there was enough lemon to hide the smell.)

Chicken mushroom soup for cold weather. Stay healthy! || Ну не все ж одним десертам царствовать на моей страничке! Вот грибной суп-пюре с курицей! И он невероятно вкусный и отлично греет в холодную зимнюю пору! Заботьтесь о своём здоровье, дорогие! #feedfeed #eeeeeats #gastropost #foodie #instafood #foodporn #foodlover #yummy #cooking #tasty #delicious #view #soup #chickensoup

A photo posted by @eyesseethisworld on Dec 9, 2016 at 12:47am PST

The only meal that both John Major and Holly Hunter in Top of the Lake rejected as "as bit too much grey."

Pop in for a mince pie and a, or grab one to take out. Want to make our mince pies at home? Head over to our Journal on lyleslondon.com for James's recipe. We use aged mince beef and fat from @farmertomjones Dexter cattle. It's really important to get high quality trimmings so ask your butcher for his best gear. In London, go see @naththebutcher at The Butchery at Spa Terminus. Use a good old school tart apple, like Russets or Cox, which you can get from @chegworthvalley #mincepies

A photo posted by Lyle's (@lyleslondon) on Dec 2, 2016 at 4:48am PST

According to a small amount of research into the Victorian tradition of mince pies, the actual pastry bit used to be called the "coffin" and would be disregarded completely, leaving just the meaty, spicy filling. Man, the more you hear about Victorians, the more genuinely, achingly, wretchedly goth they turn out to be.

Lunch, oh lunch. #mattarpaneer #biryani #lunch #food #friends #family

A photo posted by Dishoom (@dishoom) on Dec 8, 2016 at 5:27am PST

This may have a little something to do with the fact that I drank three glasses of wine on an empty stomach last night, but I could probably eat a bathful of biryani right now and still be looking in the sink for seconds.

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A photo posted by Instafood (@lnstafood) on Dec 8, 2016 at 11:04pm PST

Talking of hangovers … I'd love to see the bicycle-sized pizza cutter they rolled along this bastard. Imagine. Just imagine the size of those mozzarella strings.

#tbt #throwbackthursday I haven't found a single viable #Laetiporus since I moved to TX, but I know I'll find them soon! This one is a L. cinncinatus at the base of an old oak in Ramapo, NJ. It's from 2014. #laetiporus #laetiporuscincinnatus #chickenmushroom #foraging #forage #wildfood #foragedfoodie

A photo posted by Foraged Foodie (@foragedfoodie) on Dec 8, 2016 at 2:23pm PST

All the wonders of the world are happening outside, on the damp and heady smelling sides of trees. So get out here and sniff some fungus.