instant food: the high point of our society's "i want it now" lifestyle.

You know it's true. common knowledge. if you didn't realize this you might have been living in the basement your entire natural life. People desire instant gratification. Cars that accelerate faster are desired(duh!), computers must process their binary at mind-boggling speeds or else they're obsolete. and if you haven't seen a comcast commercial then you could be societally ignorant and/or you've never been to this fabulous grease-capital-of-the-world called the United States of America.

We always make fun of how horrible the typical American's diet is, yet we stuff our face with the likes of fast food, junk food, sugar and sodapop. in the case of college students we see this weight gain and resolve to cut down our body mass fast while seeming to look stylish/edgy/hip by imbibing insane doses of coffee and caffeinated energy drinks.

If you actually can say with a clear conscience that you do not do ANY of the following, then you might be an herbivorous rabbit.

This demand for instant gratification is summarized in Proverbs 19:22a:

"What a man desires is unfailing love"

Man, meet instant food products. this nugget of wisdom in the bible points out Mankind's natural tendency of self gratification, to be consistently fulfilled by indulging our desires. (asquicklyaspossibleok?)

Technology and manufacturing methods have been developed with efficiency (and profit) in mind, and now food products can be (and are) packaged with consistency of flavor, texture, longevity and widespread availability for consumers. It's like Tom Cruise says in Jerry Maguire: "You.... Complete Me."

If you can take the time, just think about it. We're wired to want something that will never fail us, that won't talk back, that won't ever leave us, no matter how bad we are.

You might be thinking that God would be a perfect fit for that(or at least that's what I was thinking). but outside of God, the perfect spouse and fatherly/motherly love, the closest things we have are....


Instant Noodles. (Nong Shim, Korean #1 noodle!)Easy mac., etc. etc.
Just add water for deep fried and dry frozen noodles high in carbohydrates, MSG, trans fat and cholesterol and nothing else. But they’re dirt cheap and it’s better than dying… quickly.


Microwaveable precooked food.
Hot Pockets, pizza rolls. microwave dinners. WHITE CASTLE BURGERS (Hellz yeah.) think about fast food. On demand. Conveniently delicious.


Chips and "Junk" Food: Pork Rinds and potato chips, among other things, are consistently greasy, high in carbohydrates, sodium and trans fat.

I mean, come on, be honest. Life would suck without quick food. We’d have to cook stuff ourselves, maybe be dependent on cooking vegetables and meat instead of sprinkling them from a freeze dry packet. It’d take time. I mean, who has that kind of time nowadays? We have so many other things to do. Like, facebook. Blogging. Watching prime time television. Stalking 14 year olds on Myspace. Looking up rugby tackles and sports highlights on youtube.

Yup. Today, Cooking is something we get paid for, it’s a job rather than a routine. Sadly enough.

BTW, definitely didn’t mean to imply anything specific about 14 YO’s and stalking on myspace. No sir.