Monday, May 2, 2011
I'm forever hungry...
Yum~Yum~
One good thing bout having offs is that it allows me to plonk myself infront of the tv and be a couch potato (not literally of course). Sitting infront of the tv, channel surfing with tidbits in hand. Then it suddenly dawned on me how much I like to watch food shows. You know shows that introduce food locally, or exotic foods, or like competitions. And it has to have abit of comedy in it.
Thus far my fav has got to TLC's Man Vs Food. Adam Richman, I'm not a competitive eater, just a regular guy, with a huge appetite LOLZ. For those of you who don't have cable or know the show, its basically this guy that goes around america introducing extreme food, either in size or in taste. And in every episode he will visit a shop that has a challenge, like finishing extra hot spicy chicken wings, giant size burgers within time limit etc etc. Somehow its just fun to see him pigging out XD.
And this brings me to my point, food isn't just food. Quote from my close sec friend, "Do you eat to live, or live to eat?". There's so much food available out there for us to eat each day, so much ingredients and seasonings. Mix them together and you get billions and billions of different cuisines, do the permutation yourself.
Yes there's always the mundane fare that we eat everyday, but tats also the reason why a term such as "Comfort Food" was produced. It's food that we want to eat, food that after eating we know we will be happy. Like chocs and desserts to girls (thou ironically its fattening). It's because of the boring-ness of life that compels us to seek ways to excite ourselves, to excite our senses by giving it a kick once in awhile. To go and try that exotic-weird-newly-introduced food in the market, or to go to Mac and chow down on a thick, juicy, spicy McSpicy. Only by doing this does it remind of us that we are actually Alive, and that we're living not for others but because we want to. In essence, just to make ourselves happy :)
But Comfort Food isn't always about the food itself. The atmosphere that accompanies the food is very important as well. If not why would there be so many regular patrons for upclass coffee like TCC, Coffee Club, Coffee Bean and Starbucks. The word "comfort" also means comfort to the soul. Sometimes you just don't mind the fare, what you seek is the environment, the people around you. It could be said the company actually makes the food tastes better. To chill around best friends, have a relaxing meal and just temporarily forget the woes of the world, this is also a kind of Comfort Food as well, food for the soul.
You would want to eat not because you have to, but because you want to. It's a blessing already to have food to eat, and to be able to eat food that you like is a raised level in itself, almost an state of enlightenment.
And that's the reason why we all like to eat. Or at least I do hehe.
Nom Nom :)
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