A short YouTube #shorts monologue (creator/speaker: Ashish Kothari) arguing that the problem is not fast-food restaurants but that people have become faster food consumers. The speaker claims modern eating is rushed and distracted—people eat while working, often alone, and use food as reward or stress relief—leading to overeating and loss of communal mealtime.
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If we think about our own relationship right now and how we consume food. People talk about fast food restaurants and I'm like, the problem is not fast food restaurants. We have faster food consumers. What I mean by that is, look about all the people who are working and I'm in. You look at lunchtime and people will break something up and they're working and they're just scarfing the food down. No idea what the food is. Oftentimes because they've worked all the way for the first four hours of their break, what they're putting on the plate is as much about somehow kind of giving themselves a reward or kind of over overcoming that stress. So it's not necessarily the best. And then we're actually one eating alone. So your notion of communion and community is missing. Second, we're not even with the food. We're literally just scarfing it. And the notion, because if you're just going to scarf something down, you need very little. We overeat, we consume way too much. If you're just doing it for preservation of the body, you wouldn't eat as much as you do.