I know I am a sick fuck for enjoying these eat with me videos but they do hit a little harder knowing now how sick she is.
Yeah, it's some real
Leaving Las Vegas-tier shit, when you really think about it. I'm just waiting for her to give up, stop pretending she's ever going to be able to turn herself around, and just double down on eating herself to death.
This video is sad, even for her. All her memories surround food, or driving to food.
I have this thing where I ask people what their first memory is. I find it sorta fascinating, and it's a great conversation starter. Over the hundreds of times I have asked this question, not once has anyone told me anything that involved food. I've had a couple people tell me they were chewing on something or about to put something in their mouth (as babies do) and an adult took it away from them. I've had someone tell me they remember their dad driving and having to stop and take their bottle off the roof of the car, but that is the closes I've ever heard.
It can't be normal to have such fond memories about food, gross food at that.
I do the same thing; I'm fascinated by what is important enough to stick as somebody's earliest memory. And I've also asked people (while we're eating or cooking, and discussing food anyway) what their very first food memory is.
Most people have to dig for one, and the further back they manage to go, the more mundane those childhood memories are: canned chicken soup when they stayed home sick from school; peanut butter and jelly sandwiches; graham cracker and orange juice snacks at preschool. There isn't a whole lot of emotion about the food; it's just there, and they ate it so regularly it had a chance to form an impression.
Others, whose earliest memory is from about age six onward, remember food associated with a specific event or special occasion: Halloween candy; making Christmas cookies; a special birthday cake; the hotdog at the beach that got stolen by a seagull. But it's still not about the food itself—it's that the food happened to be part of whatever was happening. Any remembered emotion arises from what was happening and who was there, not the food itself.
So Chantal's detailed, early recollection of all the food she loved so much as a toddler and pre-Kindergarten aged child, is really unusual, as far as I can tell. Or maybe other deathfats would have similar memories, in which the food itself, and the emotions associated with it, are at the center—I don't know, because I've never asked a deathfat this question.
Anyway, one thing that stood out to me in this vid was that it was Chantal's
paternal grandmother who fed her all those snacks. For some reason, I always thought it was Kim's mom who did that. And apparently, her dad was in her life, and somewhat involved, during her early childhood, when I was under the impression that he'd noped out entirely. Which makes things just a bit more complicated than I thought.