Food is Love

I’ve been eating fast food since my childhood.  Fast food has been a huge part of my childhood.  Every day after school, my dad always takes me out for some fast food, discreetly.  That way, my mom won’t find out.  She hated fast food and tried to keep it out of my reach.  She once told me if I keep eating fast food, I won’t be able to live long and do any sports once I grow older.  When she said this, it kept me away from fast food for a while.  From time to time, fast food has been a treat to me, and still is to this day.

                The places where I lived as a young child, fast food restaurants can be found anywhere and are extremely popular.  Literally, everywhere I go, traveling from country to country, there are so many popular fast food restaurants that it’s hard to avoid them.  My mom had a hard time keeping me away from those fast food restaurants.  She gets irritated that American restaurants are global; even Taco Bell and Burger King has been around in Japan and the Philippines, but they’re menus are exclusive in their respective countries.  This makes it even harder for her to get those restaurants out of my sight.  Back in Japan, my dad always takes me out to the Japanese McDonalds.  The McDonalds in the naval base is way more different than the Japanese McDonalds.  I prefer the Japanese McDonalds because the majority of their menu is based on seafood.  Instead of a Big Mac, I usually order the shrimp burger and some French fries sprinkled with seaweed seasoning.  It has been my addiction throughout my childhood and my mom would get upset that I kept eating it.  Once, I go to McDonalds with my dad and he’ll buy me shrimp burger for the whole.  I got to the point when I got very ill from eating so much Japanese McDonalds.  Until I got better, I begged my dad to take me out and order that shrimp burger for me.  The illness I had before didn’t stop me from getting my hands on that burger.  When my mom found out, she was furious with me and my dad.  So she convinced my dad to stop ordering McDonalds for me.  Funny thing is I still didn’t stop going to McDonalds.  I use my lunch money my mom always gives me for school lunch, just to buy that burger.  Then I go out with friends that have the same idea.  There are times when I look back at my childhood and think remember the great times I had with my friends and my dad at McDonalds.  It’s such a shame that I won’t be able to get my hands on that burger ever again.

                Today, I haven’t been interested in fast food as I was back then.  Fast food is a treat to me and I eat it occasionally.  As I grew older, I became aware of my health and realized that consuming too much fast food is a risk to my health.  When I eat fast food, I usually get cramps and get exhausted really easily.  This made me eat my mom’s cooking every night.  Every night I get to eat real food that benefits my health. Still, it’s good to some fast food every once in a while.