Much Ado About Eating

We are all creatures of predictable dietary habits. Most of us have our favourite dishes, our preferred fast food and our little culinary secrets.
Some of these we share with others, and then there are a few we simply prefer to keep to ourselves. God knows why, but we do.
For example, we may like our hotdog from the street vendor sprinkled with deep-fried onion rings, mixed with Tabasco sauce. It may not be another person's favourite kind but we don't really care because it brings a silly grin to the one who loves it to death.
Who knows why certain kinds of food ring all the bells in our heads? Perhaps 30 years ago when we were in our pre-teen days, one rainy day an unknown hotdog seller was on the right side of the street, and someone's child happened to be there as well.
His best friend, the one who has lots of pocket money, treated him to the above-mentioned hotdog with a so-called secret recipe. What transpired was an undying love born of a teenage culinary love affair for a simple bun with a sausage and some sauce.
That's what makes up our personality. We all grow up developing certain tastes and refining them as we grow along. Sometimes we think we know all that is to be learnt about eating, but then as the years pass, we know better.
However, eating can be considered a cultivated art. It breaks my heart to see diner labouring over their food at fine restaurants. Other than humans, I can't think of any other life-forms that enjoy food as much as we do.
Enjoying a great meal comprising excellent dishes is a gift from God. We all want to live to eat. Woe be he who eat to live and abide by rule for the rest of his miserable life.
That is a punishment exacted by no other than the sufferer himself. Therefore, it is my credo that as long as our mouths can move, as long as our jaws can open and close and our teeth can bite, eating should be counted as a great blessing because it puts us in touch with some of the finest moments of human living.
On that note, I shall have to keep my date with a restaurant in an hour's time.