If You Need Popcorn To Enjoy It, It’s Not A Good Movie

We spend a lifetime weaving food into everything we love, and everything we don’t, blurring the lines between the two.

Food is our identity.

Food makes even the most insufferable situation a bit more tolerable. Enjoyable, even.

Food is a drug. A legal one at that.

That’s why making even the slightest healthy change to our diet is nearly impossible.

Because it isn’t just our diet that has to change; it’s dinner with family; it’s coffee with friends; it’s campfire cookouts, and birthdays, and best friend brunch. It’s even Thanksgiving.

Actually, that’s a good idea; try to imagine giving thanks without the pumpkin pies, and homemade stuffings, and cobblers, and you’ll see what I mean. Just you and your entire family sitting around the house all day, talking to each other.

If just imagining that scenario makes you want to dive headfirst into a wood chipper, you’re not alone. But it does make you wonder, how many other so-called positive experiences do we modify with food?

Consider a night at the movies; the collective tension of the audience, the perfectly timed sound and sight effects, the engaging…