Tempest in the teapot

As you remember my blog's theme is on food, which is important enough to explain the revolution. As this link explains, colonist drank a lot of tea. They did this in imitation of the British, who introduced the beverage in America. Britain putting a tax on tea upset colonists, who responded by boycotting the product. When Britain upped the ante by allowing the East India Company to sell tea in the colonies, protesters threw in Boston Harbor. For Britain this was the last straw and war became unavoidable. The moral of this blog in don't mess with Americans tea!

As you remember from my last entry my blog is on food. Now my assignment is to relate the topic of food to our colonial unit. Probably the most famous meal from colonial times was the first Thanksgiving. I found this link at the History Channel describing what we know about the menu. A lot of the food was pretty familiar but i was surprised to see how much seafood they served. It was also interesting to see how the menu combined American and European dishes.

Americans are used to getting what they want when they want it so why not breakfast too. Americans are so used to this lifestyle that the food industry has taken advantage of this. The introduction of fast food and places that have breakfast all day have made billions because they take advantage of this. It has gotten to the point where some americans don't go to the grocery store anymore they just go eat out because they're too lazy to cook a meal themselves. For a link, I'm including the trailer for "Supersize Me", a documentary about fast food consumption.