THE TASK

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SUBMITTED BY: ROGER S. DAMASO

SUBMITTED BY:CHERY LANE LEPURA

THE NATIONAL DISH IS ADOBONG MANOK AND WHY?

PARAGRAPH ESSAY:

I thought about this for a while. A funny thing about adobo, and why I guess it’s often
used in the cliché of “single people eat at a buffet,” while “committed people eat adobo
for the rest of their lives,” is because adobo is synonymous with home. You spend a
long day at work, you travel far and wide, you eat out for a week, whatever—eventually
we always come back to adobo.

Nothing is comfort; nothing is security as much as adobo. Granted, it is the simplest of

dishes, but every home has its own version, and each of us will defend our home’s
adobo as we would our honor. Bottom line is, wherever we may end up, whatever new
tastes we encounter, we love our adobo.

So I stood there and nodded at his little analogy because another funny thing about
adobo is you can never find it at a buffet. You’ll find truffles from France, salmon from
Norway, steak from the United States, pasta from Italy, but you won’t find adobo. If
you want to find adobo, you have to go home for it. There are tons of fancy
restaurants, but they don’t have adobo, plain and simple, like you have waiting for you
at home, source of all the comfort you need to see you through anything.