Profile
Blog
Photos
Videos
Inner Monologue;
( im doing this to write down my interesting thoughts along this trip, well I may find them interesting, or funny years from now when I look back on this )
I don't think I'm going to loose any weight on this trip. Despite the extreme heat and humidity, lots of walking and hauling our packs from city to city. The food is fantastic, massive portions, and relatively cheap. Everyone says I will, and granted its only been two weeks. But I'm going to blame It on my love of food, lack of will power and western culture.
Western Culture, because we live in a society of gross consumption and super sized, well, everything. We consume everything, and I believe we are taught this at a very young age. From when our mothers slam a big plate down in front of us, filled with massive amounts of processed food. And if we don't eat it all, then we can't have our desert, or watch tv. With the typical lines that we will pass down to our children; "your a growing boy! You need to eat!". "your too thin, you need meat on your bones" or my favorite, " there's starving kids in Africa that would love your left overs!"
Side note; I've been to africa, not all are starving, as those sobbing movie stars hugging children in those tv commercials make them out to be. Dont get me wrong, there are bad places where kids are starving, but so are kids and family's in north America! they stare in amazement of how much us westerners consume on a daily basis. Because if we even ate 1/4 of what normaly do. We could feed all our family's and a good chunk of theirs.
Where was I? Right. So were brought up to eat everything on our plate. Instead of eating less, and or cooking less, that's maybe why there is a lot of fat kids woddling around. I'm going to make a conscience effort not to eat everything on my plate! And have appropriate serving size of food.
Also in Vietnam, if you eat everything on your plate, it's insulting because they feel they didn't feed you enough. And of they offer you more and you refuse, it's even worse because they think you didn't like their food!
Food for thought! ;-)
- comments
Reesa Devlin I don't remember slamming a big plate of food down in front of you, and it certainly wasn't processed. It was you who ate everything in site. I remember you stoping for a three hamburger snack after school before coming home for dinner!!! It was MY PARENTS, your grandparents who said we had to eat everything on our plates because the children in Africa (Korea at that time) were starving. You had a hollow leg or two, I don't know where it all went. Love you, mum xoxoxox
Sherry Fusco Hey, I remember the line about the starving kids in Africa too. It must of came from the Dr. Spock on how to raise Children. My brother had a good response. He offered to ship it to Africa to hepl save humanity. :) Always was quick to respond. You are right about etiquette in Vietnam ( leaving food on plate) It also applies to China, and most likely Cambodia and Thailand as well. They will forgo feeding themselves to fill a guest up. If its a community platter, it is also not polite to take the largeset or best piece, and the cook will also malign their own cooking, whereby you must insist it is excellent. :) ( this is not a stretch from Western culture too...haha). Have fun, and keep the blogs coming!