We are reasonably influenced by people from other cultures that visit or come to live to our country. And although sometimes we are not aware of it, that influence makes us change our behaviour; and eating, even though is one of the most important needs of animals, when it’s done according to the society’s rules, it becomes a custom strongly attached to our way of life.
Nevertheless, from my point of view, the most important circumstance that has succeeded in changing our eating habits is the lack of time that rules our society. Due to the little time, we have to do everything we are supposed to, we have changed the way we feed ourselves.
We cannot waste one hour to buy the ingredients, another to prepare the meal and two hours to have lunch, so we buy ready-made food, heat it in the Owen or the microwave oven and swallow as soon as possible. We just do all that when we do not have to work.
The lack of time has changed our eating habits. It is not a question of American, African o Asian influence. There is no difference in eating a bruschetta, kesar pulao, jellyfish with chicken or sashimi, for we do not chew food properly to nourish ourselves as we should: we simply just swallow.
