Food!

As much as I wanted to continue with the debate in the last post, I felt I had to continue with the posting.. but let this not be the end of it. We are the future.. we need to get our act together.

‘I’m hungry’.

‘Is this edible? How do they manage to eat this?’

‘How am I supposed to eat this?’

‘Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww….‘

Yeah, I know. I call this the HFWS (Home Food Withdrawal Syndrome). And believe me, I understand.

I remember I had not eaten anything during exam time last december because my body refused to take in a morsel without salt or chilli. And my hands refused to cook for my body. So I remained hungry for about a week until the brain had to take command from its usual state of torpor.

If you do not have insurance, which I consider pretty likely as a corollary of the ‘clueless’ theorem, you don’t want to go in the direction mentioned above.. you would be spending waaaay more than you ever imagined on medical bills. Medicine and democracy don’t go hand-in-hand here.

Wokie. So we’ve decided that food is important. Not just ’survival’ important, but also ‘don’t-milk-me-dry’ important. With that, I welcome you to the land of a wonderful array of delicacies and cuisines! You are so set to experience one of the most fulfilling hobbies – tasting and gluttony!

Lesson No. 1 – Don’t give up on free food.

Since the population is less, hosts can reasonably assume that there won’t be a long queue of starving people who haven’t eaten for a month, and you can always grab a bite at an event or barbecue. Free food here means pizza, fruit, salad, juice or coke – in short, there’s something for everyone.

The trick is to get your timing right. But there’s no reason to scoot there and gorge yourself silly if you are not hungry.. you’ll only end up upsetting your stomach and metabolism.

Lesson No. 2 – Eat at the right time.

Soooo many friends of mine skip breakfast even when it is as simple as gobbling some cereal, drinking milk and then giving yourself a vigorous shake to make sure the mix is right. Breakfast is VERY important if you don’t want to end up feeling hungry at 11 am and then being forced to shell out 5 unnecessary bucks to have a doughnut. You would have done injustice to both your bank balance and your body.

Similarly, americans here have dinner at 6:30 pm or so, which I believe is a very smart move.. it eliminates the need to stay up late just in case you regurgitate whatever you ate at midnight due to acidity. Eating late also makes all that food be saved as fat rather than readily-usable energy, so think twice before eating late.

(To be continued – Vegans, vegetarians, cuisines, drinks, meat)