[AFB-XYZ]

I bet it’s not so much the “extremely pretty” comment, but instead the “You eat with your eyes” comment.

Still no reason for them to have a conniption about it.

[Jan_Sobieski]

I’ll bet this is a German idiom that is much more innocuous in native Deutsch

[Mr Rogers]

“You eat with your eyes”

Means the presentation of the food is the first thing you notice. Or so they say on a Chef Gordon Ramsey show. Me? The first thing I notice about food is quantity....but I eat at Denny’s more often than a fine dining place.