When aromas coming out of the kitchen kept you in euphoric ecstasy and joyful anticipation for 2 or 3 hours.

Then you sat down and devoured a 7 course delectable meal in all it’s glorious grandeur

Look how many thousands of years it took us to ‘advance’ to “Fleeting Eating.” (Eating on the run)

Look how many people got rich from this advanced form of eating. Companies like Rolaids…Tums…Maalox…Mylanta.

Restaurants today are meeting competitive racing standards for dining. Some get very creative. Some of them have their own racing forms. Some put a cute clock on your table and you’re clocked on ‘food arrival’ and you’re clocked on how fast you can ‘glom’ it down…so they can have your space for the next Olympic ‘glommer’.

Some of them even offer a snappy incentive to get you out of there fast…like tasteless food

You’ve heard the expression “we hate to eat and run.” You’ve also heard diners burping all over the place. That folks, is the fast food frenzy!

Nobody takes the time to prepare. I’m reminded of the old days. A seafood customer impatiently waiting and starving for dinner. You could hear his stomach gurgling. The waiter trying to patronize and console him says: “I’m sorry sir , it’s taking longer then we thought.”

Just think back thousands of years. The very first meal in a cave took 32 hours because they didn’t know how to start a fire. It wasn’t until Murray who was impatiently dawdling with two sticks, caught fire…and before they could put the fire out, they roasted two iguanas, a rhino and Murray. The Rhinoburger took a week to eat…it was tough!

If they had a microwave in those days, they could have saved Murray and a lot of time.

Today it’s fast food - junk food and processed food. Stop eating for one minute and just think where we are going next. Ponder this: Your wristwatch alarm goes off…you reach into your watchband and peel off a ‘pill’ and you will have just dined on your favorite gourmet meal. That Simple!

No loss of appetite - no loss of time - maybe a loss of equilibrium and vision occasionally, but every phase has some sacrifice.

Dominos and Pizza Hut have made driving in traffic rather dangerous and some of them have crashed into our living rooms trying to beat the delivery deadline. The race got so competitive a company is now offering a 15 minute delivery ‘cook your own pizza’. See where we are going! It didn’t stop there. All you can eat restaurants are popping up all over the place. You can always spot them by the ‘Medics’ parked outside.

Remember, this started when Svenga Smorgasbord threw a picnic for his employees which led to the very popular salad bars, buffets and pig-outs we enjoy today.

But we cannot , and should not , get so complacent that we forget the unsung heroes who gave their lives in agonizing torture, ‘tasting - testing and touting recipes so you and I can go to McDonalds today with a minimal amount of pain!