Gamers know food? and culture spreads through gaming!

Hello Gamers,

More and more games today come with online functionality of some kind. Gamers eat this up like bags of Doritos. It seems that more often gamers demand this content to their gaming choices. Games like Left 4 Dead and Bad Company having much more life online than in their single player campaign have left me with an odd reality. More and more gamers are talking to eachother than ever before. Xbox Live and other online communities for gaming are creating a cultural boom. Not every time a game is played but much more often than ever before does a gaming session leave me wanting to cook. Just in the past few weeks gaming on live has brought about conversations of speedies, barbeque sauces, ribs, steak, marinades,pizza recipes, and arguments on top of arguments as to what tastes best. I had an unbeliable argument about what cheeses are best with what dishes and what cheese should and should not be allowed on top of a pizza crust. I feel I won by the way as my 26 cheese pizza is like a lasanga lovers version of a pizza pie. Regardless of the game being played gamers talk music, food, books, and even foriegn languages. A month ago I played a game of ncaa football 09 while in an Xbox live party with some people playing left 4 dead and UNO online and we spoke only Latin, Ancient Attic Greek, German, French, and Italian. The only english language words spoken in three hours was a brief spewing of explatives after a fourth quarter route leaving one of us 49 points down after being tied at the half. It is odd that gamers have taken the time to relate their tastes to other gamers online. Oddly the conversations start the basic gamer way. Join a live party or a game lobby and say the whats up or the hows everybody. (Clean version of hello) Then soon the conversations wonders from picking teams to picking on the other guy for what they put on a sandwich.
I will be the first person to admit that gamers can unintelligent with their diet but not all gamers are pale, sleep deprived, fat asses either. More and more gamers compete in tournatments and other events and so they are becoming concerned with gaining the edge that being in good shape gives. Like being more awake and refreshed when sniping the guy off the top of the tower. Essentially what I am saying is that Gaming comminities are bringing people together much more that just for the sole purpose of gaming together. We gamers get to know not only other parts of our own country but I regularly play games online with people from New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, England, and France. So we slowly get over language barriers and begin learning what people are like and how they live over on their part of the globe. The fun is that while your blowing up yourself and everybody else on the map you can be having a rather pleasant conversation about grilling steaks and putting bacon on your french fries.