Bernard O'Shea: I don't think I've eaten a single meal at the kitchen table 

Bernard O'Shea: We recently had to buy a new kitchen table, which got me thinking. When was the last time I sat down and had a meal? So it's phones down while I eat now.

I love eating. Such a simple but loaded statement. Some may view it as slothful. Others might view it as conspicuously consumptive and vulgar. Some may be visually fatigued by relentless pictures of fetishised dinner plates on their social media feed. They might simply yawn, but regardless of how you feel about anyone's love of eating, it's where we do most of our munching that has become an issue.

When you think of your kitchen table, do you automatically think of it as a place to eat? Growing up, every meal I ate was at the kitchen table. Even though we all came through the house at different times of the day, we ate every single morsel of food at the table. It might sound funny, but from zero to 17, while I was living at home, the only time I ate meals on my lap was when we didn't have enough space at the table. The only time I saw someone eat their Dinner while watching TV was when I had finished my Dinner and watched someone do it on TV. Even into my teens, the telly in the house was turned off at meal times.