Christopher R. 9/20/10
Food can define the way a person lives. Some people are the more focused on eating foods that have been classified as health or low calorie foods and other people are look at food as something that is to satisfy a persons hunger. I think a persons eating habits comes from what is available and what is given to them at a young age. People know what they around surrounded by and depending on the types of foods fed to you throughout your childhood and what you grow up eating. Most of that is from what is near in your neighborhood. If you live in a neighborhood where there are a lot of fast food places and not many gourmet grocery stores the choice is no longer the consumers. Most people like things to be at the convenience of their home which is why Fresh Direct, has become so popular and the good is marketed to be fresh and healthy. The problem with Fresh Direct is it can become expensive because you have to pay for the “fresh” food and the shipping and handling. Making the market that supposes to be a convenience more of an inconvenience. Making fast food something a majority of people turn to because there are so many of them and the price is surprisingly low for a lot of product.
Those are the things that go through a person’s head when they are deciding what to eat. Not the calories or the contents and ingredients of the product they have but how to urgently fill the need they have to eat. Personally when I think about what I am going to eat I only think about the taste. In fact I see eating as some sort of adventure, which is a way that many people see food. Even though the food you eat or don’t eat could be the difference in how you physically are in the future or any kind of repercussions the food you eat may have. About a week ago in the ever so hard decision on where to get food the choice came between McDonalds and Wendy’s. The two are almost one in the same except one of the choices has square patties and the other has the traditional circular ones. In fact there were two different Wendy’s locations and two different McDonalds locations. The final choice was White Castle, which was an out of the blue choice but the victor in the debate. Now the choice was what to eat. With burgers the size of bottle caps two burgers probably couldn’t fill anyone up. So with the help of three people we pulled together twenty-one dollars and bought a Crave Case. Thirty tiny bite sized burgers. Now this means ten for the each of us. We all knew that one burger had 170 calories meaning we would be eating at least 1,700 calories in one meal but the only thing that crossed my mind was how eating all those burgers would put me up there with the guy from the Man vs. Food and I would be my own personal hero. This is something that goes through a lot of peoples minds. However you always hear something is good for you and something is bad for you but when the so called bad food is so easy to get in large amounts only taste matters. For example in China the fast food restaurant total was over 500,000 and second was America with 100,000. Geographically America is larger then China however China has 5 times the amount of fast food chains but only 3 times the amount of people.
Food is also is the way that people look at themselves. Thats where we get the kind of girls that look in the mirror and see themselves as fat when they weigh 85 pounds. Or the three year old babies on Maury who weigh 90 pounds because feeding them is much easier to get them to stop crying then playing with them. Theres even the famous line, "you are what you eat" and that has now been transformed to, "eat this and you might look like this, eat this and you will be health". Depending on how a person wants to look can determine how they eat. Like when actors want to get fatter or thinner they go on diets or binge eat. There are so many diets now everyone is trying to see which one fits them most for the certain body type they want. Food is the new way of marketing many things because everyone has to eat so food that could remove pimples, or even a food that was promised to make you grow is becoming more common then "healthy" food or "tasty" food.
My ideal meal would be a meal with a group of my closest friends while eating cheeseburgers and fries. Preferably the greasiest cheeseburgers with probably 8 pounds of beef, 2 pounds of bacon and 5 pounds of fries. Watching the boondocks would be required and we would have to be serviced.
Food is also is the way that people look at themselves. Thats where we get the kind of girls that look in the mirror and see themselves as fat when they weigh 85 pounds. Or the three year old babies on Maury who weigh 90 pounds because feeding them is much easier to get them to stop crying then playing with them. Theres even the famous line, "you are what you eat" and that has now been transformed to, "eat this and you might look like this, eat this and you will be health". Depending on how a person wants to look can determine how they eat. Like when actors want to get fatter or thinner they go on diets or binge eat. There are so many diets now everyone is trying to see which one fits them most for the certain body type they want. Food is the new way of marketing many things because everyone has to eat so food that could remove pimples, or even a food that was promised to make you grow is becoming more common then "healthy" food or "tasty" food.
My ideal meal would be a meal with a group of my closest friends while eating cheeseburgers and fries. Preferably the greasiest cheeseburgers with probably 8 pounds of beef, 2 pounds of bacon and 5 pounds of fries. Watching the boondocks would be required and we would have to be serviced.
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