Food is so often seen as a tool or vehicle of bringing people together, no matter how different they seem to be. While that narrative is not inherently wrong on the surface level, what that narrative perpetuates is the further silencing of communities who, through the intersections of privileges including race, class, and gender, do not on an individual basis have the privilege to fit into broader, socially accepted culinary narratives. This thesis works to delve deeper into those often unspoken nuances of our culinary connections, and through dissection of the “transferability” narrative, parses out and explains how direct/indirect avoidance of these topics commits further violences to those communities whose choices were not theirs to make originally. Arguing for the space that these conversations deserve, this research presents through interviews with students at Colorado College that food as a vehicle for critical discovery is often stifled at the hands of food insecurity, the sincere act of being insecure of the food produced and enjoyed by individual means. To work through these insecurities, and to have these conversations, would offer change unfathomable in regards to what we even understand culinary narratives to be, and help to provide a semblance of culinary justice to all people, of the past, present, and future.