What is the obsession with food?

[good sam]

I always find it humorous when gentiles carry on about how much food they ate on Thanksgiving.  We do that once a week, minimum!

[CountValentine]

I always find it humorous when gentiles carry on about how much food they ate on Thanksgiving.  We do that once a week, minimum!

If you really want to know about eating food you will need to marry a nice Italian girl. 

[good sam]

meh

[Galitzyaner]

Wow i can't believe i'm actually agreeing with Ergel.

An obsession with food is actually contrary to religion.

I agree with cv. I think that many people use God as an excuse to be obsessed with food. I don't think this obsession has anything to do with religiosity. It may have been spawned by religion but I don't think it has anything to do with God at this point (cue up all the Chabad people to argue). In it's current state it has a lot more too do with one's boich than God

+1
It is probably more a Chassidic thing, and ironically, throughout the generations Chabad was the Chassidic philosophy that stood out, in actually not putting an emphasis on food and such (in avodas Hashem), even de-emphasizing it.

[jj1000]

I agree with cv. I think that many people use God as an excuse to be obsessed with food. I don't think this obsession has anything to do with religiosity. It may have been spawned by religion but I don't think it has anything to do with God at this point (cue up all the Chabad people to argue). In it's current state it has a lot more too do with one's boich than God

No ones arguing with that in this thread.

I and others were talking about how it was spawned. That was CV's question. And I think we are in agreement on that.

[churnbabychurn]

+1
It is probably more a Chassidic thing, and ironically, throughout the generations Chabad was the Chassidic group that stood out, in actually putting an emphasis on drink and such (in avodas Hashem).  This is well documented fact.

FTFY

[Galitzyaner]

FTFY

LMAO