Rocko402003’s Weblog

College students spend a great deal of time eating out in restaurants, probably more than most Americans do.  We live and thrive on fast food, and that nice sit down meal that we don’t have to prepare in a microwave that came from a bag or a freezer.  However, one thing that I’ve begun to realize more and more recently is that when someone goes out to eat, we no longer eat just enough to satisfy out appetites, we gorge ourselves in finger foods and deserts, to the point where our stomachs can’t take it, we feel like exploding, and end up swearing to never eat that much again.  I spoke some time ago about food merely becoming a commodity to the point where we use it as a form of competition.  It seems as if, though, it has become so much of a commodity that it’s existence and abundance means that we have to gorge ourselves consistently.

Have we really all become empty people who constantly commit what is considered to be one of the seven deadly sins, destined to live our lives out in gluttony?

It truely is amazing how much our culture is impacted through food, and it’s preparartion, so much so that it almost seems as if it is what we are focused on.  As I sat channel surfing over this past weekend, it seemed as if everytime I turned the TV on, there was some kind of food competition going on.  It seems a little coincidenal considering that we are going over this in class right now, but when I sat down to really think about it, this stuff is on almost all the time.  It just may be that I never really took any notice of it. 

We have hells kitchen reruns, Top Chef Marathons that happen 24/7 after marathons of project runway (another really ironic timing matter), and episodes of Iron Chef followed by all these different food network challeges.  Have we really reached a point in society where we either disregaurd food so much that we have turned it into entertainment, or have we become so consumed and fascinated by it that this is the kind of entertainment that we pusue inbetween meals as we plan what we eat next.  It’s really an intersting question to think about, but a little too perplexing that if you think about it too much, it very well make your head hurt.