I dunno where else to put this but I was bored at work and this just popped into my head. I noticed how whenever Phil talks about the food he Doordashes Khet puts in the microwave cooks from scratch he always makes sure to say that it had spices and seasonings. It just makes me think - who in the fuck doesn't season their food? Why does he have to make sure to say that what he ate was seasoned? Even the desperate poorfag's meal of choice from my country, which is lard spread over a slice of bread, is seasoned. People usually put black pepper or paprika powder over it and a little bit of garlic so they don't feel completely disgusted and ashamed for eating raw lard. I know he always wants to make it seem like whatever he ate was on the level of a Michelin starred restaurant but saying that whatever he ate was seasoned doesn't make it sound impressive at all.
Is it because he sees he has a lot of Bri'ish viewers so they don't know what seasoned food is? Is it because whatever slop they serve his dents at their halfway houses isn't seasoned? Is it because Khet is white trash from Michigan so even putting a bit of salt and pepper on something was a foreign concept to her?
He probably points it out for a couple of reasons from the top of my head.
By talking about the spices they make it sound more ''unique" according to Phil, it traces back to how he would always ham up that Kat would make up a bunch of CUSTOM dishes from time to time and that Kat is such a good cook that by using spices it just has to be good for that fact alone, for instance he has definitely over explained the ingredients with a bunch of food that Kat "cooks" such as her famous Cajun Chicken Pasta, Baked Chicken, Chicken Sausage and Tortellini Soup and Chicken Pot Pie (gee I just realised her most cooked meals all have poultry in them, is she incapable of cooking another cut of meat? oh yeah that's right they overcooked a ham).
And of course with how high Phil's self importance is about making sure people know he is totally a mature adult with successful family lifestyle, showing off his soul mate to his dents is apart of that package, Phil loves to exaggerate things to fit his narrative so seeing him just spit balling all these spices and seasonings that may or may not be in the food isn't too hard to believe, I might imagine he's learnt this behaviour from Madre Burnelli as well since she must have had a huge part to play in his mommy's boy obsession and absolutely having a wife that MUST cook for him.
Phil probably wants Kat to replicate those same feelings towards him so I think that's why he always emphasises the nitty-gritty when it comes to food and eating because he needs that feedback to keep his ego in check, otherwise do you know how embarrassed Phil would be if he had a wife who couldn't cook home made meals to save her lifef? (well truth be told considering her track record with fucking up in the kitchen and what Phil has said about some of the dishes she makes as well (involving potatoes), the food she makes tends to be more underwhelming and if you do your research about what specifically Kat has made for dinner, they all seem to be packaged meals from Fred Meyer).
Phil projects his insecurities like a nervous wreck if you are even a little bit sceptical about everything that comes out of his mouth, he has to make these things sound as good and delicious as possible because if he doesn't, how else could he fool himself and not make his wife look like an incompetent bum in front of his audience?
