Eating With You

So a little earlier in time we read a short story thing called Nice to Eat with You by Thomas C. Foster. This writing is about how we like to only eat with people we enjoy, or like. We refrain from eating when we are in the company of people we are not comfortable with. This piece is trying to explain that eating is an act of communion in a sense because it is such a sacred thing to stuff our faces with things needed for survival. We eat depending on our relationships with those around us. If we eat with friends or family, it should be a very talkative, boisterous meal full of love and all around happiness of those we are with. If the family is cold, or you eat with people you don't like very much, the dinner will be quite and maybe even very formal to make sure everyone is polite and not laughing at each other the whole time. If a meal gets interrupted for any reason in a story, you know something in their relationship has gone wrong and bad things will happen. When Foster says "I'm with you, I share this moment with you, I feel a bond of community with you" (Foster), he is saying because putting food in our bodies is so holy, we only want to do it with the best of company.