Drowning our sorrows... with Food...

[SoCalDem]

Booze is of out of favor these days, regardless of what the beer ads tell us.

Society gets all pissy when people drink and then drive.. and you cannot drink in public out of doors in most places, lest you get arrested for public intoxication...

Smoking's a bigger no-no than just about anything people can do or think of doing.

But Food....Aaaaha..glorious food.. That's something just about anyone CAN indulge in , any time, any place..

Our cars have special adaptations to accommodate the delicious drive-thru milkshakes, and cars handle so easily these days, it's an invitation to "eat & drive" AND even talk on the phone, hands-free while you drive (or try to).. Some cars will parallel park for you so you can eat pizza & talk to your friend while parking.

Schools used to serve LUNCH and that was IT.. no vending machines for goodies & treats..teachers routinely confiscated food items brought to school.. Classrooms & hallways were "NoFood-NoGum" zones. If you wanted a drink, there was a drinking fountain with FREE WATER, ice-cold..at each end of the hallway.

Jobs, did not have break rooms with refrigerators, microwaves, vending machines, "crash-cart vendors".. If you worked at a desk, you did not fill your bottom drawer with treats and junk food. You waited for lunch, and went to a nearby restaurant or you ate your sack-lunch.

After lunch , you worked until the day was over, and then you ate dinner..

There were three meals.. breakfast (eaten at home before work/school), lunch (see above), and dinner (supper in some areas)..

After dinner/supper, there was dessert..and then the dishes were done, and the "food-day" was OVER..


Look around.. people are eating all the time.. everywhere. Are they really that hungry? or are the collectively "feeding an inner need" that they cannot feed any other way?

Marketers know that we all secretly long for the days when we were little and anything sweet or yummy could make us "feel all better".. When we were sick, Mommy would always let us eat ice cream or would give us non-stop popsicles.. If we were good, the doctor would give us a lollipop.. Grandma always baked us cookies.. At Halloween, we got candy..and at Easter too..

Now we have no Mommy following us around(telling us to wait for dinner), but we have corporations offering us goodies everywhere we go, and they are so cheap, we cannot deny ourselves the comfort they offer.

We deserve it, dammit.. we work hard for not quite enough money to live like we want to..and if a warm donut can make us feel better, then why the hell not eat that donut?...It's at least 2 hours until the next meal time anyway..:)

And after a grueling day at work/school, why worry about cooking, when McCorporateFoodMaster can hook us up with some tasty "take home chicken" just like Grandma never cooked.. Hormonal chicken is just so 21st Century, and who wants their 7 yr old to be the only 1st grader in class without a bra..

The obvious downside is that all this food has a way of hanging around (our middles), but never fear... Gym memberships are great for filling up all that extra time we don't have, so we can whittle off the extra pounds we're packing.. just be sure to bring your antiseptic wipes so you don't catch something from the gym machinery... all those "pre-medicated" foods may have made you immune to medicines you might need , if you catch something.

On the way home from the gym, why not drive thru the Dairy Queen for a Blizzard.. They help chase away the "hot & sweaties" :)

[WilliamPitt]

1. "Booze is of out of favor these days"

Guess I missed a memo. *hic*

;)

Actually, I am at this moment mauling my way through a bacon, sausage and onion pizza, so maybe you're right.

Mmmmmm... *hic*

:P

[SoCalDem]

2. Damn you.. Fax me a piece..NOW

Pizza sounds like a winner for dinner :)

[JuniperLea]

3. Whaaaa?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[blues90]

4. I guess I am one of the lucky ones

Well lucky in just this one way , food has never been an addiction of mine . now cigs and a drink certainly and coffee . I substitute any snacks with another cup of caffine and sneak a bit of nicotine where it's still safe .

I have seen people eating while their walking to the bus or their car or while driving , nothing like I've seen before .

[madrchsod]

5. are we showing our age ?

ya i remember those days....when i grew up my grandmother fixed our meals..everything was homemade...home made egg noodles.........sorry flashback. the only time we ate in our car was on vacation at a drive in.

[blues90]

6. I'm so old the only places on the road were called

Eat in a neon sign . Most were adapted from a house , there were no chains .

[SoCalDem]

10. Eat on one side & Gas on the other

:)

[Megahurtz]

7. Aww Hell....

just drink your dinner, it's less fattening. :beer:

:silly:

[flvegan]

8. Some of this is misleading, but not by intent.

"Look around.. people are eating all the time.. everywhere."

Eating "all the time" is much better for your metabolism than 3 meals a day. Having 5 or 6 smaller meals over the course of the same amount of time is much better for the body than a tri-stuffing each day.

Just clarifying.

[SoCalDem]

9. In theory, yes..but in practice ..not so much

If breakfast is an egg mc muffin in the car
10 am break is a donut
lunch is microwave pizza
afternoon snack is cookies
dinner is KFC
night snack is icecream

I KNOW people who eat lke this :eyes:

[flvegan]

11. Oh, of course not when that's the "food" in the program

I'm talking about people that eat, not people that shovel pseudo animal-grade shit into their mouths.

[NeedleCast]

12. That's not so terrible

as long as you're not doing it daily.

[SoCalDem]

13. Many young people eat that way EVERY day..

I am amused at people who go for the upgraded appliances in their new houses, and then never actually use them :)