HW 3 - Food - Fast Food Insights and Green Markets

     After wandering around Wendys and the Union Square's Farmers Market, I found they both had one thing in common: both places made an effort to accentuate their healthier foods.  As odd as it may seem, the larger pictures of food above the Wendys cashiers were of salads and not of foods that contain fried chicken, greasy fries, and sugar filled sodas.  However, while I examined the several consumers of Wendys, I found the majority chose the crispy greasy foods over the potentially healthy caesar salads.  Quick to make their food choices, customers were reluctant to answer my questions which led me to question: Why were they unable to answer simple questions concerning their food choices even though it took less than a second to tell the cashier what they wanted?  Was it because they were uncomfortable or rather ashamed of their choice?  And if they were as ashamed as I assumed them to be, did they have the same conscience when they ordered the same on another day?  Two middle-aged African American men answered jokingly about why they chose Wendys, "'Cause it's healthy.  Good Quality."  I realized then most people avoid such questions and evade the truth by covering their true feelings with a silly anecdote or joke.  These facades reveal the the health-consciousness in some people and their attempt to evade health because of the tempting low cost and convenience of fast food.
     The ideal food mind-set of the regular New Yorker is convenience.  Convenience is key, the thing we strive for, and the light we see at the end of narrow tunnel.  In the hustle and bustle streets of the N.Y.C., everything is fast moving: the people, the lines, and the conversations.  Having noted this, convenience most definitely pertains to food.  Dodging people left and right in the farmers market, I walked with uncertainty and began to wonder how what I was seeing then, different from another time?  Eyes glaring and scoffs headed my way, some food salesmen just ignored my sincere questions and concerns and just said, "Are you going to buy something?"  Disgusted, I walked with a steady stride and saw lines of perfectly stacked canned foods of all sorts: canned honey, sauce, fruits, and relish.  Most people walked toward to canned food vendors assuringly because they were either too lazy to buy fresh goods or make a sauce.  Some people said, they had been shopping in the green market for years while I saw tourists with gleaming eyes mesmerized by the variety of healthy foods.  Different people have several approaches to food like that of New Yorkers, we seek effortless tasks.
     Food ultimately defines who we are.  This may be a very cliche saying but, nonetheless is very true.  The way we choose what foods to eat reveal how we make judgements, how we favor one thing over another, and how we make certain decisions.

Bianca C
A1

(NOTE TO SELF: Work on transitions.  And make sentences more concise.)