On Wednesday, as we traveled through both the green market and the popular fast food chain known as Taco Bell, I noticed some similarities as well as differences. The first thing I noticed was that both the green market and Taco Bell are usually not places where people tend to sit down and eat the food they purchase. Although Taco Bell provides chairs and tables, most of the customers were in too much of a rush to sit down and would often leave immediately after they received their order. However, at every place that I visited in the green market, the salesman/woman would talk about how their products were all natural and grown at their own farms. There was not even a sign in Taco Bell that would suggest something like that about their own ingredients, but they instead boasted how good their food tasted as opposed to the green market where signs advertised things such as vitamins and minerals.
The reason that most people in America would probably choose Taco Bell over the shops in the green market is because they share the same priorities as I do when it comes to food. Taste over health. All of the drinks that were available were the fountain sodas, which are all packed with sugar to enhance flavor other then water. However, the green market advertised healthy beverages such as wheat grass juice, which is something I have never tried before but as we walked past it one of my classmates said, "Oh yeah I had that stuff before! It tastes like shit." On the other hand, this beverage was packed with antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and chlorophyll. Still, most people these days will probably choose Taco Bell because even thought its bread does not taste fresh and its cheese isn't even cooked all the time, it provides that flavor that people crave and want, but for most of us it is certainly not what we need.
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