Food

So my most recent joining of TasteFresno.com made me think so much about food today, that I have to write it out to get it out of my mind so I can get back to work.

Working at a German/Russian slanted school in a Hispanic area of town, across the street from a really good Asian cuisine restaurant, I get a lot of different types of food choices. This morning I had Zwiebach with home-made jam for breakfast. Lunch was Chinese food. Dinner will most likely be Italian.

Living in America, we have TONS of different choices on what to eat. Why? Because we do. This is what makes our country so great: there are so many cultures and people groups living right within our boarders, that it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to travel to a certain place to experience what their lives are like, and eat their tasty and interesting foods.

If you stopped one person on the street and asked them their favorite restaurant, they would know exactly where it is, why the like it, and why everyone has a wrong opinion. We are very particular about our food, and this comes along because of our freedoms. We are free (due to constitutional rights as well as financial ease) to say "I would rather not eat rice." In other places throughout the world, saying that meant that you were probably going to die due to self-starvation.

I guess what I'm getting at is: America, we have all this wonderful food just waiting to be tried! My policy is not to reject something as not tasty unless I have for a fact tried it and told myself that it was unappetizing. We have the money, we have the means to travel, we have the adventurous spirits, so why don't we get out of our McDonald's Double Cheeseburger routine and go down to a small Mexican, Thai, Mediterranean, French, German, Italian, or one of many other types of restaurants instead? Let's get out of our normal, boring routine and try something that we haven't. Maybe you'll discover a new favorite food, or a new worst enemy. Either way, you found out something else that you can talk about around the water-cooler tomorrow.