Ten minutes supper, is it strange?
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Ten Minutes Supper
We usually have a regular meeting of English circle on Tuesday from 8 pm to 9 pm. I finish working in 7 pm and I need to move, so usually I have no time to eat supper before the meeting. But today I had some time to eat supper, the time was limited though. It was only ten minutes. But ten minutes was enough for me to finish having supper, so I felt strange when one of our members said it's very short.
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Nutritional experts will tell you that it is not good for your digestive system to rush through a meal.
ReplyDeleteIt's enough time to heat left overs or pick something up, but not long enough to enjoy what you're eating.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't have to prepare it yourself - I mean, you spend the ten minutes actually eating, and you eat a light one-dish meal: it's enough.
ReplyDeleteYou are right. I bear it in my mind that bite well, taste well, think something before swallow.
ReplyDeleteThat time I ate the rest of luncheon. I think basically this matter concerns the difference in tradition. Japanese people don't have a culture to enjoy having a meal. I think Japanese people tend to think that eating is considered a shame, disgrace.
ReplyDeleteI used to go out with a Filipina woman in my early thirties. She was very worried about my eating habit saying 'no one is trying to catch you or running after you'. She had to repeat the phrase tens of hundreds of times and left forever without catching and running after me.
ReplyDeleteThe Indians don't have the "enjoy" culture either, they just sit down, shovel the food in, and get up.
ReplyDeleteWhen I eat alone, I don't think it takes me more than ten minutes, normally. Then I have left-overs or something very simple and eat it thinking of something else.
I'm very surprised! Japanese food is so elegantly served and with so much thought for harmony between tastes etc., even colours. I'd have thought you really took your time to enjoy it with both mouth, nose, and eyes. The food deserves it.
ReplyDeleteOnly noble people or celebrities might have the culture to enjoy having Japanese cuisine slowly. But ordinary people work usually 60 hours in a week. I mean 12 hours in a day times 5 week days. There's very scarce exceptions. Even in a day they finished eating their luncheon in ten or fifteen minutes and rushed to resume working though they have 60 minutes break. This is a very sad reality. This is a fact. Me? I work no more than 44 hours. But I've got many things to do besides working, so I feel indifferent to spend time in eating.
ReplyDeleteI understand. Still, your tradition gives people a 60 minutes lunch break. In Denmark, where the work week is 37 hours, the lunch break is only 30 minutes.
ReplyDeleteIf they told the Italian workers to eat in 30 minutes, there'd be a revolution. Seriously.
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