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Persuasive Speech About Food

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Were you ever once in middle school, and just wanted to do dumb things with your childhood friends? Doing it to the extreme may have been exclusive to just my group of friends, but I can promise our friendships will last for the rest of our lives. I remember we would all stay the night at someone's house. Then we would go to bed at an incredibly late time, and we would wake up at six in the morning to bike to a taco shop. This wasn’t just an ordinary taco shop, it was an authentic Gas Station Taqueria. It sounds so stupid, which it was, but for some reason doing things like riding bikes to get tacos just brought me and my best friends closer together.
Going to the taco shop eventually became a tradition of ours, and like National Geographic claims National Geographic quotes “ “To break bread together” a phrase as old as the bible, captures the a power of a meal to forge relationship”. I think that food in general, but more specifically just sitting down and eating with people is how you get to know them and develop a relationship with them.These days most teenagers just sit on their phones when they go eat with friends, and I feel like that distances us from our peers, which is the opposite of what eating with people naturally does.These days, eating has become one of America's favorite pass times and it's thought of as a hobby, oppose to a part of survival. When you do things you love, which in this case would be eating, with the people you love, then a very special bond

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