HW 5-Dominant Discourses Regarding Contemporary Foodways in the U.S.

    The dominant discourse in today's world is the act of eating healthy, and people strive so hard to try and trust anyone whom can help them achieve this goal of a healthy diet. I say this because around me this topic is the most discussed especially by the females in my family. For example my eldest sister Erika works from home while working her other job as a physical therapist as a saleswoman for a company called Isagenix's. This company is basically a company that try's to sell you food products that you are suppose to turn into your natural diet. As a result of you doing this they say you will be healthier, and feel better naturally only if you follow this diet of crazy eating and methods of eating. I personally think that this diet is bullshit and the stuff is bad for you but my sister has yet to show any signs of bad health and she has mad a ridiculous amount of money by selling these products online and in her neighborhood.

    This little thing that my sister stated about a year ago grew into something huge and it is all because it's a part of the topic of a healthy diet which happens to be the dominant discourse in today's world. After my sister started this my brother caught on to it and started following it as well for my brother in law , my mother , two of my aunts and a whole boat load of my mothers friends caught on to this and started following and selling this health brand. So this even backs my position on the dominant discourse of today even more so because almost everyone in my close family is becoming a part of this health brand attempting to acquire a healthier diet. Even in the news today there are numerous articles about gaining better health, for example this article: Doctor's Orders: Eat Well, To Be Well

    This article about a Dr. Maring promoting the importance of eating healthy through eating more fruits and vegetables and including them more frequently in ones diets. You can see just how crazy everyone is getting about eating healthy because even the media is stuck on discussing the subject.  What I noticed through my own experience of seeing my family going is that they are going out of their way to get this simple task of eating healthy done. They are going on eating binges and making crazy drinks and meal substitutes instead of just going on their own schedule and eating healthy naturally. This Isagenix crap is just so appalling to me because I have no clue what it is that they are eating everyday. Maybe these crazy eating habits that are suppose to be healthy for you are only the dominant discourse because they are different then anything else anyone has ever seen and maybe seem like a heaven send for some people.

HW 4-Your Families' Foodways.

    Well first on a personal level of my own food ways I tend to base the favorite things that I eat with my mothers cooking/ fathers and my own and that food tends to be very heavy sicilian and I guess in a sense I approach this food because I grew up with it as a kid. I believe that peoples food ways are created by the food atmosphere that they grow up with while they are in their younger years. Although people create and become accustomed to these foodways at a young age their habits are constantly changing as they are growing older and more influence form others. Their peers and media and other adults are the people that these kids take into consideration to make the constant change their foodways. In another example for me personally my father loves peanut butter and when I was younger I ate a lot of peanut butter all the time. So as I saw my father eating peanut butter I became accustomed to it and started to do it my self because he was my influence during that age that effected my foodways.

    Now for the approach of food my parents generally don't care what we eat as long as its easy to get and some what healthy every now and then they are almost always happy with what they are eating. For me it's all about desire to eat healthy mostly and to eat what I'm craving form time to time. On a regular night my parents will order soups burgers or salads  from the greek diner from down the block from my house and for them they consider that a healthy choice. But occasionally on other nights they will order italian or spanish food which they consider unhealthy and sadly this effects me in a bad way. It does this because I have to order something from these places cause they want to so I end up eating badly or healthy every other night. You can see how my family still affects my foodways even at my current age of 17, everybody's foodways are constantly changing through out  their entire life.

    My families food choices affect me in a negative way because since they are always ordering out this constantly pushes back the time we are suppose to be getting groceries and groceries is something I have a horrible time living without. This is the result of my family's food ways effecting my house hold groceries:

The refrigerator in my house is the exact replica of this refrigerator in the picture above and I hate it. Every now and then I'am able to place fresh direct orders for groceries but because of my family's food ways postponing this there is barely a good amount of food inside of my home when I need there to be. So you can see as well how your families foodway's can effect your quality of living in their foodway's effect you in a negative way, just like in my case with my lack of food in my refrigerator situation.

Hw 3-Food-Fast Food Insights and Green Market Realizations.

    I believe that the whole reason on why the business of "Fast Food" is so successful is because of the constant aspect of convenience that these businesses maintain remarkably well. To be specific, when my class went into Mc Donald's I noticed there was a sense of convenience almost everywhere I looked. For example inside of this Mc Donald's there were multiple people ready to take your order, on the menu there were orders already created for you to order even faster, and there was even a little counter place to the side  where you could conveniently grab napkins and any condiment or seasoning you like. Maybe to even add on to some further reasoning I could mention the cost of the food in general, it's ridiculously cheap, that could even be seen as another connivence aspect to some people. It's reasons like this that strike me for being some of the contributing factors to why the businesses of fast food are so successful.

    When I come to think of differences and similarities between a Fast Food restaurant and a Greenmarket I can think of about maybe two very bland similarities and about a ton of differences. These similarities are in fact very simple, I said that both of these places of business sell and both of these places create there food their own type of way. Some differences between these two places are their prices, the quality of their food, the way they prepare their food, and customer service as well. The difference of price is a simple one, fast food compared to a Green Market is very cheap, while you are paying more in the green market your are paying for a better quality of food in general. The quality of the food in the Green Market is in fact much better then the quality of a Fast Food restaurant because the things being sold at the Market are things actually being grown on farms and taken care of and then brought directly to the market to be sold fresh. On the other hand the fast food restaurants freeze and fry their food and create fatty salty unhealthy foods from food that isn't directly from farms. Another big difference between these two opposites is the customer service, usually in a Fast Food restaurant you will get the occasional nice person every now and then but not usually,usually you will get a very direct person who wants your order, the cash, and the next person in line, repeat, in a way these people are almost like robots. But at the Green Markets you will usually always get a very nice person whom interested in the food and interested in selling it to you and making a nice friendly conversation out of it. From personal experience I have encountered both of these different types of interactions with salesmen at Fast Food restaurants and Green Markets close to my home.