As a TV Junkie and who’s DRV is always full. It was easy for me to pick Food in Pop Culture for this assignment. My favorite television shows are those where competitors compete for a cash prize, and the object of the game is survival of the fittest. For example, television show like Survivor, Fear Factor, MTV’s The Challenge, and even Big Brother to name a few, are all somehow centered around food. There is always a challenge about eating the nastiest, slimiest, smelly, and spiciest things you can find on these shows. Fear Factor is a old favorite that most people only remember because contestants ate things like cow intestines, slop, live insects like crickets and hissing cockroaches, worms, bobbing for apples in pigs blood, or even a smoothie mixture of them all. That within itself is already a challenge for anyone who wants to compete for the title to prove “ Fear is not a Factor.” The Challenge and Big Brother are shows that require more social, mental, and physical aspects of the game. Although there is plenty of food for the contestants, there is however, the consequence of being on food restrictions for loosing the competitions. Food restrictions could mean eating slop which could be some of the unusual combinations of food that would make you want to starve yourself. Celebrities joined the fun of being on these reality shows, in turn made the shows even more popular. For instance, in Survivor, the premise of the show is to endure the torture being in the wilderness and living off the land. This made fans tune in every week to see if celebrities could keep up with normal citizens. Food in these instances was a major part of the shows storyline. Food acted as a means of gaining control of the contest, or as a means winning the game. Symbolically, food in a competition is a weapon for survival.