My community and food

I wanted to focus my personal essay on how food helps us to build a community. I feel that this community can start when we are in preschool or elementary school, we sit in our classroom groups

or with our friends and eat lunch together. In those groups we always are trading our lunches for things that we like better. I think this can build a community. Families can build cultures around food, so why can't children build a community around it? This to me was really influenced by going to one of my placements for a class, where I am a lunch buddy for children and I watched them interact while they eat. Seeing them clump into their groups of friends and talk about something other than class is a good thing. But even when children go through the lunch line or pick their food choice for the day they consult with their friends. This to me is creating a community.
I live in a sorority house, we all have built a community around food. We all eat dinner together, it is something that I would not trade for the world. We all talk and laugh and bond, we all talk about how we hate meatloaf or how we absolutely love Tacos. Its a time where we all can decompress from our day. This is my community and I spend so much time with them, but dinner is where we just focus on us.
Food plays a big role in my social life, I think at least once a week living in a sorority house I am asked to go on midnight snack runs. Being as busy as we all are this is one of two times that we have together so we all socialize around food. My house loves to cook and bake so food is a big part of who we are. It makes me sad to know that just because my house isn't a tiny person like a stereo typical sorority that we are called fatties or A-O-eat another piece of pie. Its because be aren't afraid to indulge in somethings that we want. I think that this has also helped us to form a community just because of a negative stereotype that comes from food.