TV dinners

Hortwiz makes a point of how one can add a lot to a situation with food. However, you can also take away from a situation if you are eating. Hortwiz brings up how she had someone in his class eating a huge sandwich, now in a lecture hall this would not matter. This event took place in a small classroom, which made it much more obvious to the teacher and all of the other students. So after all this, she brings up how s1he used to have people smoking cigarettes during class. This was a subtle way to show that the food was effecting the situation. He also talks about how TV dinners were a way for families to get together, since you did not eat a TV dinner without watching TV. "Looking at screens while eating, rather than at other people, has become more commonplace since those first tv dinners, at home, at work, and beyond. Eating in front of tvs is ubiquitous in public spaces such as airports, hospitals, and sports bars, as well as in more sequestered niches" (Horwitz 44). She makes a valid point that meals are not what they used to be. So, does watching TV with your family really add to the situation or does it make your not pay attention to the others and just look at the TV. When I think of food adding to a situation, I think about how whenever my friends and I would watch a Blackhawks game, we would get food. Some of the people, who were not as big of fans as me, would be more focused on the food then they would be on the game. So, some people thought the food of a way to bring us together and watch the game and others used it as a distraction from the game. Also, people set there own eating cycles, so like in college people eat whenever it is easiest for them, which is when every they turn on their microwaves (Horwitz)