Food can almost always be turned into a topic of conversation. It might be any angle, from world hunger in general to feeding people in need right around the corner. It can be the quality of food, its costs at the supermarket, or problems of farmers. It can be proclamations of one’s favorite foods, some recipes on a box, questions about where is a good restaurant or appliances for preparing a certain type of meal. It can be strange eating habits or strange things eaten in far distant lands. It can be new things to try. Regardless, it’s about stuffing a thing or two in the mouth.
No matter which angle or aspect is brought up, however, there needs to be a little knowledge in the picture. There’s a common lament one sometimes runs into about city children not knowing that milk comes cows, and similar things. One fact about food is, there are plenty of adults that aren’t particularly in the know about food stuffs, either, although they like to talk as if they know a few things. Especially among the elderly (and elderly care) there’s chat about no salt this and low sodium that, or whatever item the dieting has prescribed for some individual.
So, food is a big deal and time-consuming even just in the eating of things all set to eat, never mind growing the wheat for bread or even picking the apples for a pie. A recent discussion lambasted fast food restaurants as being a poor way to get nourishment. It may not be the best possible, but few people can indulge in the best possible all of the time. At least the fast food has a value to some degree and is readily available usually at a reasonable cost. If such didn’t fill a need, it wouldn’t exist. It’s easy to criticize something just on the basis of talk or maybe political expediency.
There are good hamburgers.
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