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Post by OpiateOfTheMasses on Dec 20, 2020 22:19:50 GMT
Have you ever noticed how often when a reporter/journalist/writer/whatever is doing a piece about somewhere's local culture they say that food and/or family is very important to that culture? It's become a running joke in our house...
So I was wondering if any of you knew of a culture where food and family really wasn't in the least bit important. Where people find eating a complete chore and where everyone holds their families in complete disdain and only have children because they're made to.
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Post by SciFive on Dec 20, 2020 22:28:35 GMT
A joke in the Jewish world is that our festivals and holidays are mostly based on this: “They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat.”  In the Passover week in Israel, the zoos give the animals matzah bread. It is a once per year treat. They show photos of big animals (like bears) grabbing as much matzah bread as they can, including by carrying some of it away in their mouths. It’s something different so they go for it in a big way! It’s cute as hell! |
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Post by goz on Dec 21, 2020 1:41:04 GMT
I am thinking Antarctica .
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Post by politicidal on Dec 21, 2020 19:09:31 GMT
Not sure about the food, but those extreme Mormon cults perhaps.
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Post by goz on Dec 21, 2020 22:01:20 GMT
I’ve never noticed any reporters saying this. However, to answer the question: the United States of America. We eat garbage and rarely as a family. I’ve not had a meal with my family in over two years. And most American kids hold their parents in distain. That is sad. In my family we nearly always eat together as a family ( or we did when the kids were around) and we prepare meals together, often from home grown ingredients and we all love cooking healthy stuff. Of course we eat take away food occasionally ( especially fish and ships and savoury pies) however most of our food is home prepared from mainly fresh ingredients. I cook a lot of Asian and Mediterranean and some middle eastern meals as well as simpler fare like roats and casseroles and stews and soups, though we eat mainly salads in summer and the occasional BBQ where we ea outside a lot.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Dec 24, 2020 21:18:03 GMT
I’ve never noticed any reporters saying this. However, to answer the question: the United States of America. We eat garbage and rarely as a family. I’ve not had a meal with my family in over two years. And most American kids hold their parents in distain. That is sad. In my family we nearly always eat together as a family ( or we did when the kids were around) and we prepare meals together, often from home grown ingredients and we all love cooking healthy stuff. Of course we eat take away food occasionally ( especially fish and ships and savoury pies) however most of our food is home prepared from mainly fresh ingredients. I cook a lot of Asian and Mediterranean and some middle eastern meals as well as simpler fare like roats and casseroles and stews and soups, though we eat mainly salads in summer and the occasional BBQ where we ea outside a lot. When my husband and my father were still alive, I took on the responsibility of Thanksgiving and Christmas meals (my mother hated cooking), even though my parents were theists and my husband and I were Atheists. It was out of my husband's secular joy of holidays, when people were generally nicer to one another. Now, I eat with my four-footed family, and they will participate in anything worthy of a 'kitty party'! They do get a bit disappointed when I am eating vegetables, or something else they don't like, but sometimes I mix their dry food with vegetable broth, and they really like that! And yes, I am The Crazy Critter Lady!       (I need an emoticon of goats).
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Post by mystery on Dec 24, 2020 22:41:35 GMT
I'm not representative of my culture by any means, but I do consider eating to be a chore. When my stomach starts growling, I have to stop what I'm doing and find something to eat, and I find that really annoying. I honestly don't care what I eat, and my diet is horrendous. Sometimes I just have potato chips and chocolate milk for lunch, and I almost never have fresh fruit or vegetables. But, because I don't eat very much, I've always been at my ideal weight, my blood pressure is perfect, and I'm freakishly strong for my size, so I don't have much incentive to change.
My family is a mess because my brother married an evil bitch monster from hell, but I won't go into that...
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Post by OpiateOfTheMasses on Dec 24, 2020 23:00:14 GMT
I’ve never noticed any reporters saying this. However, to answer the question: the United States of America. We eat garbage and rarely as a family. I’ve not had a meal with my family in over two years. And most American kids hold their parents in distain. That could possibly be the answer. When you want the true "bottom of the pile, worse case scenario" example you more often than not just need to look at America... Sometimes I forget how self obsessed most of the people there really are.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Dec 25, 2020 16:34:22 GMT
I’ve never noticed any reporters saying this. However, to answer the question: the United States of America. We eat garbage and rarely as a family. I’ve not had a meal with my family in over two years. And most American kids hold their parents in distain. That could possibly be the answer. When you want the true "bottom of the pile, worse case scenario" example you more often than not just need to look at America... Sometimes I forget how self obsessed most of the people there really are. As a whole, I would agree with both your statement and PaulsLaugh. Many Americans are self-obsessed, and overly focused on consumerism, cell phones with all the new bells and whistles, new cars... But I think there are sub-cultures where family and food matter, perhaps in families that are trying to hold on to the culture they were raised in, their history. But the media rarely comments on this. In my family, there were no cultural traditions we tried to perpetuate, although my father's side of the family was Swedish and Danish. My father's sister married an Irishman, so that bunch did do some culturally Irish things. Because my father's parents died fairly young, there was no sense of an extended family. I never even met those grandparents. On my mother's side, that family was so dysfunctional that all of her siblings headed as far away from the parents as possible. I spent a few days with them maybe three times in my life. I grew up in an odd, isolated family that substituted a church family instead of a genetically linked biological family, but all of those events were religion-based, and not cultural. When I left that, I was pretty much adrift, until I met and married my husband, and we started our own list of celebratory occasions, just between us. I still remember those days, and observe them in some way, but without him... America has been described as a melting pot, and I am not sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing.
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