Ninth International Conference on Food Studies

Abstract

In the early 90s, Fast Food culture was so popular amongst children and it was a fruitful choose for families as they were affordable, they are packed with toys and they are fast enough for other family members to had their time in a shopping mall. While postmodern media culture was signing fast food as a cool complement of modern, hip-culture things were not going well for 90’s children as some of us, like me, were threatened with our life as a result of obesity. Unlike the post-modern culture industry of today, the popularity of Fast Food and its lifestyle was not determined as dangerous as from families to government, unless it has been figured out when we have grown up in an unhealthy body. Then, when everything of the ’90s became Nostalgia and from my own experience, I transformed the way I live into a something which juxtaposed with a term off-modern which Svetlana Boym described as a re-visiting opportunity for anything that modernism offers. Nostalgic bonding is everywhere now in our postmodern society, in every daily practice. Vinyl Records and VHS are popular again. 3rd Wave coffee shops are the new cool. Slow food culture and slow-cities are identifying how postmodernity is wounding fast culture. Same is reflecting on my body; so this is the story of mine on how I gained my health as I lost weight of 85 kilos with off modern thinking in mind on modern food culture.