“Please, sir,” replied Oliver, “I want some more.”
How often have you asked a variation of these:
- Want to get some coffee?
- What are you taking to the potluck?
- Do you have time for lunch next week?
- Can we get together for dinner and talk about it?
- How about kicking back and ordering pizza tonight?
- When are we going to that new restaurant?
We are a food-friendly people. And rightly so!
Whether it’s a romantic restaurant meal that became a turning point in your relationship or the thin gruel fed to Charles Dickens’ fictional orphans, food nourishes us. We have favorite food linked to memories, like my pal Juanita’s Sock-It-To-Me cake from long-ago birthdays. Please give me a good movie, a comfy couch, and then add the chips and salsa with cheddar cheese melted on top. Years later, friends can recall meals at great restaurants. We have stories about cheap meals on a date with the person we married. We munch on popcorn or peanuts and can’t stop grabbing one more handful. We have that comfort food Mom made—for me it was potato salad, ranger cookies, or fried chicken—that no one else in the world can duplicate. We swap family recipes, sneak junk food, taste the sample “snacks” at Costco, and on rare, fun occasions eat breakfast for dinner because, well, just because!
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