Food #3 - Food Cultures - Home & Corporate

one major thing america seems to value or like to talk a lot about in the media, movies, etc, is FAST food. how to cut down the time of MAKING your meal and get right to the eating. along with this comes mainly what we call fast food, like mcdonalds, wendys, sonic, pizza, etc.-- all unhealthy food that the media portrays as other wise. they'll use family themes - sitting around the table (or sitting in the living room watching tv,but that ok because you are sharing that experience with your entire family) and say these places, like applebees and chili's, and the food they serve are "family friendly" making it SUPER persuasive to the viewers. eww.

my family does not have a sense of togetherness at all, and i've noticed that for years now not only since the start of this unit. we used to sit together at the table and eat breakfast, lunch or dinner together. now we dont, everyone has dinner at a different time and at different places. the only one who eats at the table, and by themselves, are my grandmother and my brother sometimes. i prefer to eat somewhere else and my mother as well,for her dinner....point is no we do not eat together...at all, but with the TV or games. the last time i remember doing that was about 8 years ago i think. ever since then i've secretly wanted all of us to eat like a family again, however i never said it out loud because i was afraid they might think that was wierd or tell me to shut up and change the subject =/ the funny thing is, most of our outside family--they all eat together, most of our family also does not live in the united states =/ so well, its been about a year now that i dont care much anymore whether we sit together or not. now it would just be wierd to do such.


something i wanted to add, to how america does food the convenient FAST way: umm, it seems like you know all the developed countries are in competition to become more and more advanced every day ... well duh ... but thats just ... eww... so well one day i was reading something about food i think, and i came across a video about the 5 laziest inventions. one of them i believe was called THE COL-POP. this new invention is present in south korea....but of course. and well now we can only WAIT for it to touch american soil :D


here'san article about it if you're intrested: http://www.seriouseats.com/2008/02/bbq-chicken-all-in-one-chicken-nugget-drink-cup.html