Hi, my name is Addiction and I am a Food.First off, let me say that nothing is more addictive and easy to spend money on than food. Many times I wonder if it would matter if we didn't have those little taste buds on our tongues or couldn't feel the texture of the food we were chewing. I'm sure smell has something to do with appetite, too...so let's take away that, also. Without those senses, would it matter what we ate? Oh, besides being good for us or tummy grumbles if it isn't cooked right...what if we all just ate health shakes of all the main ingredients and things our body needs to survive from the moment we were born...would we have cravings then?
Food is an important part of our society because it is one of the main things that all human beings need (which means other people can make money off of it). Because of smell, taste buds, and our delicate human reactions to texture, we can be quite a picky lot. Everyone needs good, healthy food to function properly. One could say that they kind of food we eat depends on what level of society we are in.
If you are below the poverty threshold, chances are you are eating cheap fast food and value mart canned goods (and you haven't known anything else but). Your lives are shorter because the food you ingest is not even really food, it's commercialized by-product. Can you afford better? No.
If you're lower to upper middle class, you've probably gone out to fast food places quite a bit, too. But you also eat in, and have the luxury of not only having the CHOICE to eat healthy, but the choice to eat better, also. Chances are you look down on poverty-level or lower lower middle class overweight people with disdain and judgment.
The wealthy, forget about it. These people are in shape and healthy because they can afford to be. Perfect bodies? A poverty-levels healthy meal-plan for a year in money spent on trainers and other things. These people can eat whatever they want and never ever face the consequences.
So...food can be addictive because it's the one thing that we can indulge in and feel good about ourselves. A middle-class family can eat at an expensive restaurant and feel a bit more wealthy. Food is important because to us it signifies our social status in life. If we eat good and without restraint, we feel better about ourselves. If we are penny pinching, we eat worse and look worse.
Food, my addiction...I crave thee.
Labels: chipotle, food, poverty level, social status
