The presence of rice pudding incites. It can stimulate the senses to such a degree that a desire to posssess and consume enters into the plenum of reality. Rice pudding, like other foods we would call "snacks" are almost exclusively good in-themselves. With the human propensity to colonize one's tongue on the interconnected components of the rice pudding, we release our will to subjugation. We relish in this dominance, this master-pudding dialectic that almost makes us imperialistic in some regard.
Soon thereafter, the narrative which constitutes daily life for the Western bourgeois- the breakfast-lunch-dinner trinity- appears incomplete. The occidental language game of eating accepts this "snack" even if its purpose is not like the other three, which are not exactly ends in the same context of rice pudding. The paradigm of eating for health is shifted in order to make room for the new desire. It is a protuberance on the order, further corrupted with concepts like "midnight snack." However, it can only be anticipated, for human nature gives in when it wants to control.
We have an image with the symbolic food pyramid. It contains the unhealthy at the top, graphically ruling over healthy consuming. Maybe, one day, there may not even be a bottom to the pyramid with the manifold nature of sweets and other illicit and quasi-nutritional "foods."
