People see food as such a great importance because they enjoy the experience of eating. Since eating satisfy our taste buds, we enjoy tasting many different flavors. This causes people to eat for many reasons besides survival. Eating has now become the cure for boredom, emotional disarray, and daily problems. Eating out of boredom lets you feel as if you are doing something when you are really not. Many people eat to forget their problems and their emotions. In these cases, the person usually eat "comfort" food like ice cream because it's has a taste many people find appealing, sugar. Other "comfort" foods include many other deserts like chocolate or cookies. The thing about food is that it causes a person pleasure so people enjoy the experience of eating because it causes them to feel happiness.

     I enjoy eating sweets, but prefer the sweetness from fruit then the sweetness from candy. Many of my favorite foods are fruits and the taste of good fruit is just so satisfying. However, I eat candy more often then fruit. The reason for this is that candy is more convenient. All kinds of different candies are sold all around in the city whether its in drug stores or the subways. However,  finding a ripe piece of fruit takes longer and is less convenient so even though I enjoy the taste of fruit better, I settle for candy. When it comes to food, convenience seems to be key. Many people will settle with food they don't actually want to conserve time or just to satisfy their tastes right away. Everyday, many students settle for the the restaurants around the school because there isn't enough time to eat somewhere further. People also settle with whatever food is around them when they don't have enough money. If there is a place with decent food and cheep prices, I would rather eat there then eat nothing because I cant afford what I want to eat.

    Another thing that I find interesting about food is how they pump chemicals into certain foods so they will taste a certain way. I remember watching a movie where they show factory workers finding chemicals to put into their burgers so that costumers would believe the burger was prepared a certain way, like when they prepared bacon to be sold they inject the meat with liquid smoke so the bacon tastes as if it has been smoked when it actually hasn't. It's also strange how they put a chemically made flavoring of a different food into another one like candies that are flavored to be cherry. The flavor of an actual cherry and the chemically made cherry flavoring are totally different (ones much sweeter) but it causes us to think that the chemical is actually what cherry is suppose to taste like.