Food Is A Choice, My 3 Justifications For The Foods I Love To Eat
Tummy is the target.
Food is a blessing for mankind. Even food is a blessing for all the creatures in the universe.
There is a saying: eating to live or living to eat.
I fall into the first category and you fall into the first category too.
A twenty-dollar question.
Then who is living to eat?
None. This is not fair. If there is a saying then there is a meaning and logic behind it.
I’m living to eat; hence, I whole-heartedly substantiate the above saying.
You can also call me an avid foodie.
I don’t feel bad if you taunt me. After having a regular lunch and within fifteen minutes serve me one plate of biryani with a Pepsi can, I will clean the plate with my tongue, which will not require washing.
Join me at weekends with my family for dinner. We’ll serve you with fried chicken and french-fried with soft drinks. Almost every weekend we have the same food. It sounds monotonous. Let it be. My kids love to have fries and we parents like fried chicken. Nothing sounds monotonous if something brings a smile of happiness to the innocent faces of your kids.
There are high audible noises about food consumption, there are dos, and don’ts about foods. I respect those noises without any respect.
Some people are professional health experts who care for public health and they spread their message to lead a healthy life by their professional pieces of advice with expertise and know-how. I give them due respect and pay them due to money on time.
However, some people love to engage in moral policing after seeing foods on your plate. I love them but I hate their judgemental one-way thoughts- on the food plates.
I follow below three self-made justifications that nobody should follow except me and my brother-in-law:
- If someone is eager to know about living a healthy life, he or she should not consume anything harmful to health. Smoking, drinking or doing drugs are ultimate threats to life. Having occasional foods to be happy in life is a good option than consuming nicotine, alcohol and so on. I love to have spicy tuna curry with lemon juice, if anyone has any objection to my foods then the objection shall be overruled in my food court.
- I’m accountable for my tummy. It does not bother me for anything from walking to swimming; it bothers those who love to prove their expertise without any expertise of the subject. You are a dietician, a sports person, a doctor or my wife then you can bother me about my food and its brainchild: my tummy.
- If you are theist for god sake don’t put your nose on my plate because your nose during a meal will collide with mine and jeopardize the taste. It makes my foods insipid. If you are an agnostic or an atheist for god sake also do not bother my family and me when we are gobbling a giant sandwich with overflowing ketchup, salad, mayonnaise and fries. I am not a junkie; I’m a monkey who loves to eat bananas regardless of the day, time and place.
Final Shot:
Food is a choice in a democracy. Eating is not an addiction, even overeating is not an addiction, you can call it an unhealthy practice. Eating junk food is not a bad habit if I eat with discipline. I eat fried chicken with energy drinks, it is my choice. By the way, if I look at quality wise an MNC that sells fried chicken is listed as the top best company in the world along with a top pharmaceutical company. And both of them comply with corporate social responsibility. So the moral of the story is: eating is not an illegal act, maybe it looks unhealthy to you. You know, we have been blessed with only one life, so let me cheat sometimes and eat fried chicken and ultra-spicy biryani.
Note: This is a work of Humour and Satire.
Thank you for reading.
Riaz.
March -2022.
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