Food culture!

 Remember the days when the whole family ate together?  When a meal was a communal thing, a gathering of the fam'?  You know -- when we were classy?  When you could enjoy a wafer-thin mint with your dinner?

When I was young (roughly a millennium or so after the dinosaurs were wiped out by a big rock), we started every meal with a prayer. To wit, this one:  

But those are the days of a different culture than we have today. Back then, mom stayed home and made all the meals.  Remember mom's home cooking?

But it was not to last.  This evil thing slithered onto our tables, enabling us to ignore one another, forget to say grace, watch the evening news and enjoy pictures of poor people who couldn't afford Norman Rockwell's giant mutant turkeys.

Today, most families don't eat together.  Mom's probably working and dads mostly can't cook. But there's an abundance of frozen food, ready to irradiate and shovel into our mouths.  

Or is that only in America?  Other cultures have food, too (I think they stole the idea from us).  

So how did you eat when you were young?  And how do you eat now?  Did the food change the culture?  Or did the culture change the food?

And remember the wisdom of R. Crumb:

     AlextheKay is going for a snack!