How food must have been consumed and purchased 150 years ago is quite baffling to modern brains. The ability to not go out the shop at almost any time of the day, to indulge almost any whim or fancy you may have in the moment is an almost impossible thing to resist and is most likely also a major contributor to the obesity epidemic. I find controlling the impulse to go to the shop and get something at night difficult. It’s a cycle I bet a lot of people are stuck in. our closest, five walk minutes away is open till ten, the Tesco eleven. If it closed at six or seven, the option wouldn’t even be there. A downside of the 24 hour instant gratification culture that we have created. Now, now, now. More, more, more.
It’s a trap, a trap of consumer ideals to keep us watching garbage on the telly while eating garbage, turning our bodies into exactly that. But the worst thing is, I don’t think people realise. They don’t notice the downfall of the human race and their part in it. Where was once proud upright warriors, wild hill-men and graceful ladies, there is now buckets of fat, lazy and useless, watching Love Island and eating shit.