Hw 7: Reading Response

    The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals  by Michael Pollan is a fact-filled book about the true means of the food we eat, where is came from, and the true nature of the food we are eating now. The first chapter is about corn. How it came to be, its impact on our lives, and what key roles it plays everyday without us even knowing about it.  
    In part 4: Married to Man in Chapter 1, corn is depended on humans saying that "without humans to plant it every spring, corn would have disappeared from the earth..." which I think is enteresting because in The rise of Zea Mays "there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us." From this it seems that corn is not only part of humans' diet but plays a key factor in the 'circle of life.'
   Why would such an important factor of the key to human survival go completely unnoticed or be ignorant to human inteligence?

Hw 5: Dominate Discourses

The Father of All Hens: KFC vs Popeye

   

      Kentucky Fried Chicken, or better known as KFC, was founded in 1930 in North Corbin, Kentucky, when Colonel Harland Sanders started selling his fried chicken out of a gas station. As you can tell the buisness did extrodiary well, though our founded began ranting that: "They prostituted every goddamn thing I had." The second to third-largest American fried chicken chain, Popeyes, popped up in 1972 in Arabi, Louisiana and was founded by Al Copeland, who named the chain after Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle from the movie The French Connection. (http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/archives/2010/02/kfc_vs_popeyes.php)

       As a student who attends SOF, at lunch time I see a lot of students go to and come back from Popeye's. I would ask why they choose to go there when there are other places to get chicken more closer to the school. "Because it tastes good" or "The other chicken is sh*t" are the most common responses. I was even told that " You serious? You can't deny me fried chicken. I'm black! You can't keep a black kid from his chicken!" Then I began to realize something, is the fight between KFC and Popeye's just a cover up for another fued between black and white people?  

     As people can tell from the commercials on television the most recent one who promotes Popeye's chicken is an average weight black women with a southern accent. Ones who promote KFC are usually white men, now demanding the new 'double down' chicken sandwich. I guess food is just another way to show ethnic inequality. Do you really ever see a white person at the register at a taco bell? Do the black people who actually do work at a fried chicken resturaunt really look happy and joyful?

    The dominant discourse is the way people premote the chicken they sell compared to the way it is actually exchanged from those who stand behind the conter and those who order from it.

   

The Food Unit: Hw1

   The one thing that comes to mind when I think about food is varity. In America, we can eat whatever we want. Growing up in New York City, all food is at your fingertips. If you wanna get a cheesebuger, go to Burger King. You want some fried chicken, go to KFC. Wanna slice of pizza, weel, pretty much every 3 blocks has a pizzaria. As long as I eat and as long as it tastes good, I don't care what I eat.
    What pisses me off about America today is the parents who shove all this 'heathy' crap down their kids throats. Screw your organic oatmeal and give me some Eggo's! (Drowned in syrup) I'm tired of all these advertisments that tell us what's in our food. Listen, I couldn't care less if this burger has 520 calories, just put some bacon and ketchup on it and leave me alone! 
    Three things that I can't live without: chocolate, chicken, and bacon. Mama need her bacon! To all veggie head out there, I'm sorry that KFC is killing chickens by smashing them against a wall, but dip them in honey mustard...I won't complain. I know chocolate is bad your your skin and blood sugar, but even zits and the risk of clogged arteries won't stop this chick! Ever have chocolate root beer? No, well you should! And those are my thoughts about food, thank you!