The American Eating Habit

I think that the American food that we imagine is hamburger, hot dog and the like of the fast food. There is image that the American fast food has much quantity, and can easily make it. We have such images therefore I examined about the American eating habits such as Americans really usually what they eat, and there are what kind of relations America and Japanese food.

The fast food is immediate for Japanese. The fast food came in Japan in the 1970s. It is easy, convenience and cheap, so since then the hamburger and the like of the fast food is necessary for the now Japanese. In addition, convenience food and the frozen food came out, and the simple junk food became natural in Japan. But even then it is important for Japanese to home cooking. The convenience food and the junk food became general custom in Japan, but slow food is in the spotlight now in Japan because such situation made progress. However, the vegetarian doesn’t establish in Japan such as America, for Japanese has imagine that vegetarian diet, life that eat vegetables thoroughly and so on. Therefore the vegetarian doesn’t popularize in Japan that America

The hamburger, hot dog and pizza are called “Three main fast food” in America. For example, according to the data of 1995, about 5 billions hamburgers, 16 billions hot dogs were consume in America, and there are 36% to the American eating a pizza for breakfast once a month. It is important foods for the American “Three main fast food” as much. However, there is a lot of home cooking. For example, meat loafs, mashed potatoes, macaroni & cheese, chicken soup and the like. Such the American home cooking is base rich taste. There is food called “Comfort food” in America. There are people giving the American home cooking and a snack such as potato chips, but there are many people giving sweet food such as the chocolate and ice cream.

Japanese food is getting more and more popular in the America, and sushi is especially popular. But the sushi which Japanese and American imagine is different. The sushi which American imagines California roll that rolled avocado, crab and the like. It seems to be the thing which a Japanese sushi craftsman made for an American having opposition to raw fish. It became standard sushi in the America. Also, the tofu became popular now. The tofu was made for material of sweets, so the tofu became popular in the America. However, the American tofu is different from Japanese tofu. The American tofu is hard than Japanese tofu, so it is easy to cook, but it is not tofu of a mellow flavor such as Japanese.

There are many vegetarian people in the America. There are people becoming a vegetarian for various reasons such as macrobiotic foods orientation, religion, and the environment. There are people of various kinds in the vegetarian. The vegetarian is the people who don’t eat meat and fish. Above all, “Vegan” is the people who don’t eat an egg, dairy products and animal food at all. There is “Fruitarian”. “Fruitarian” is a diet of only fruit, nuts, seeds, and other plant matter that can be gathered without harming the plant. However, there is “Semi-vegetarian”. They are eating chicken and fish. In addition, the America has many vegetarian foods, and there are many people eating the foods are contained additive and artificial sweetener, so it is the eating habits of the junk food, but there are a lot of people of such a vegetarian. It seems that such things are causes that vegetarian popularize in the America.

I thought that Japan and America affected it each other. Life of the fast food, the junk food and the like became natural in Japan and America now. However, the other side of the coin is that the both countries make points of the life of natural foods and the slow food. Moreover I understood that American was different from Japanese in consciousness for the food. The American has sense of value to easy and convenient to eat. Therefore there seem to be more few home making cooking in American than Japanese. In addition, I understood that Japanese is different from American in the consciousness for the food, but they affect it each other, and there is the food now. I examined American food, the eating habits and so on, and I understood various things. Therefore I was interested to American food, and I want to know more about it.

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