Ho;idays or Excuses to eat days??

So it's Valentine's day. The day the HERSHEY chocolate company calls CHRISTMAS! Today more chocolate is sold than any other day in they year. A day that is primarily devoted to LOVE has become a symbol for giving CANDY to your loved one.
What does this say about us as a society? Let's look at the rest of the "Holidays" we celebrate throughout the year.
After VAlentine's day we gear up for St Patrick's day, March 17. What is the main thing American's do on this day whether of Irish decent or not? They drink copious amounts of beer until they are dead drunk, eat corned beef and cabbage ( still the grossest meal on the planet!) soda bread and boiled or mashed potatoes.
April brings us Easter and here we go again : chocolate bunnies, chickies, and PEEPS. We'll eat the Easter ham with all the trimmings and try to summon up enough energy for an Easter Egg hunt. How does any of this equate with the Resurrection of Jeasus Christ??
In May we celebrate Memorial Day. THE First barbeque-ing day of the year. Hot dogs, Hamburgers and fried chicken; cole slaw, potatoe salad and beans. Lots of BEANO is taken on this day.
We get a little All-You-Can-Eat- Holiday break in june, and then bounce back in July with the 4th and more grilling, frying and eating to excess.
Labor Day rounds around in September and now we celebrate THE LAST grilling day of the year with even more backyard get togethers centering around eating and drinking.
October gets us ready for winter by giving us yet another candy day in Halloween. DUring this one, children actually go house to house begging for candy. And they usually get it. The more stuffed your Halloween bag is with candy the better.
Thanksgiving gives us an opportunity to gather with friends and family ( yet again!) to eat a stuffed to the gills turkey and all the fattening trimmings. Trytophan aside, this holiday usually results in the larget percapita use of Alka Selzter and Pepto Bismol than any other holiday.
Great. A holiday where you eat so much you make yourself sick.
Christ's birth is celebrated with more gathering and eating. A CHristmas goose or turkey with cranberry sauce, potatoes ( see a theme here?) bread and lots of desserts. A Carbohydrate lover's dream come true. Gifts are given in the form of homebaked cookies and jams, and we actually have events called COOKIE SWAPS, the purpose of which is to bake enough cookies to feed a small nation with.
Then we get to the NEW YEAR, where most of us make resolutions to lose weight.
Who are we kidding??!! Valentines day is only 6 weeks away!
And so it starts again. That vicious, predictable cycle we call HOLIDAYS.
A last thought: Actress Kirstie Alley said that the real reason she got so fat before doing the Jenny Craig commericals was because her HOLIDAY SEASON started in October with Halloween and went straight through until after Easter.
Kirstie babe, I can relate.