In Search of Sustenance (Interview)

Attesting to the size of the macho burrito.

“Id say probably half the week my mom would cook, a couple days my dad would cook and the rest of the days we’d go out to eat.  They're both pretty good at it my mom usually cooked the dinners, my dad preferred cooking breakfast. 

Family room back home, not usually I mean we all ate pretty fast so it was all like, the food is made and we were done eating it in like minutes, the food was made fast, we all ate you know in the same room, the family room, theirs a table in there.  We ate probably past seven, but usually before eight.  When my parents were getting home from work and stuff.” 

“I’d probably have to say the worst experience I’ve had was when I went to Outback steakhouse, which I love, but I ate too much.  I ate hella steak, and potatoes…and then dessert, and I was only in like fourth grade, it was a lot of food.  So I mean I finished it all, but I puked all over the place, in outback steakhouse, but I played it off like I didn’t do it.  That was probably the worst experience, but that was because I overate and it was in public.”

"In terms of a change in my appreciation for food, Well coming here I have been deprived of my favorite types of food, and…different types of food, and I have been limited to only using wolfbucks, so, my appreciation has exponentially grown, especially since I’ve been here, and I miss home cooking more than anything.  Also, having a car allowing me to go to different places around the bay, or around my city, allowed me to have a lot more of a cultural diversity in what I ate." 

"One appreciation that’s growns is that I appreciate Mexican food more.  I love its combination of strong flavors combined into one…I’m talking about spice, salsa, spicy salsa, guacamole, sour cream… I would say one of the best Mexican food experiences I’ve had would be one time after football practice, um it was one of the harder ones, we were all really tired, and uh I needed some sustenance so I went to the Mexican restaurant up the street, caravel street, called “El burrito” and uh, I got their macho burrito, and what made it so macho was that it was double the size of a normal burrito,  and was basically a foot long, like massive burrito, and there was nothing more filling and sustaining as a macho burrito, two burritos put into one, the most glorious burrito of them all.  A steak macho burrito, a lot of steak." 

"It has to be filling…not nearly it isn’t.  I guess for me it would just have to be the…its not even about portion size…It just doesn’t get all the pyramid groups for me, maybe it just gets a lot of fried fat, a lot of carbs, empty calories, but where’s all my nutrition?  I want to be healthy, I want to grow up and be strong, how can you do that with all fried food?"