Eating Habits

In Hortwiz’s article “Eating at the Edge”, the author talk about the eating habit and eating time at the modern society. It is turn out nowadays people like to eat alone and eat at on their own mealtime but not the regular time. In order to illustrate the author’s idea, he gives an example which is the soup. At before people put the soup into the big pot and by doing this people can eat together and share with the same pot of soup. But nowadays, lots of people have the soup in a single package which means everyone has their own bowl of soup and have the meal all by their own. For the eating time thing, the author write that “the increased significance of grazing, not eating at fixed meal times in the same place in the company of one’s family or workmates” (qtd. in Hortwiz 42) which means people also eat not at the regular meal time and even do not eat with the same person, instead they will eat the meals whenever they want.

For me, I would like to eat with my friends or family, because I am not the kind of person who can eat or stay alone. Also when I eat with my friends I can talk to them and get large information from them. I am not alone in the society, so I must communicate with others. But when it comes to the meal time, I must say I am not a regular time “eater”. I am a university student now, so I always eat meal between the break of the two classes. I believe this happened for many of the university students. But if it is not in hurry, I would like to eat at the regular meal time, because eat at the right meal time can help me have a good healthy body.