If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?

    "If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?" was a fairly simple story to read. As soon as i started reading i suddenly found myself getting hungrier but I began to realize more and more what the story was about. Throughout the entire story it felt like the author had a constant struggle with how to fit it. She didn't necessarily seem socially handicapped but more so confused and misguided.
    At the start of the story she talked much about how she and her sister wished to grow away from her families food traditions and wished to eat more "American" foods such as: bologna, bacon, hot dogs, and many other meets that Americans seem to eat on a day to day basis. Although, as life went on the "American" foods seemed strange to her, smelled weird, and were frankly unattractive to her tastes anymore. This seemed to make her even more confused and nervous in a way. She began to wonder where she belonged; she didn't necessarily want the ways of her parents, who were Indian, and she didn't seem to fit in with the American ways.
    She eventually at one time heard of the Indian restaurants in America and was pretty fond of them for a short while. After this point the story just seemed like a confusing struggle about food really. She managed to get married to a meat-eating husband who had to make several odd negotiations about when he ate meats or didn't eat them, and she became a little scared of him leaving her for a "meat-eater".
    All together, it was a pretty interesting read. She seemed to have a very real struggle throughout the story over such a simple matter to most people. I realized that foreign things, no matter how simple, can be extremely frustrating and confusing to those who are new to it, even to the point where it's just out of the ordinary.