On Thursday (4/14/2016), we started off class by eating food prepared by our guest speaker Allen Ocampo. In the beginning of class we all took a few minutes to taste the dish and write down our thoughts. After, we all came together to share our thoughts about the dish Through this one dish, we all were able to share similar past experiences with this dish either at family parties or as a kid. But once again, why is this fruit salad considered a Filipino dish? Over the years, colonialism has greatly effected the food within our culture without us knowing. Many food production facilities such as Del Monte and Nestle have offshored their facilities to exploit the cheap labor and land of less advantaged countries. By doing this they have ingrained the idea of convenience and longevity of canned goods and changed the way we prepare our food. This idea of convenience and long shelf life in canned good explains why the fruit salad we all know is entirely made of processed American ingredients instead of actual fruits. As kids, we would also remember all our aunts and uncles bonding together in the kitchen by preparing food. But as the years passed this idea of convenience has interrupted our ritual Filipino food ways. Now instead of actually preparing food together and conversing, we would just stop by Filipino fast food restaurants for food. Not only has food colonialism disrupted our ritual Filipino food ways of preparing food together but it also has changed our past diet of seafood and vegetables. Our diet now consists of oily foods such as Lumpia or Adobo because of the expansion of fast food chain restaurant such as McDonalds into the Philippines. Through these examples, we can conclude that the food within our culture was never greasy to begin with but has greatly changed due to colonization.
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