[ SECRET POST #2384 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2384 ⌋

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Comments

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

I gotta ask, what the hell was up with portion inflation? I've never met anyone who wasn't flabbergasted at the size of food portions when they visited the U.S. Do you know if there was any particular reason for that?

Re: AYRT

[bur]

No idea, but I like it because it means I can get the next day's lunch and a partial dinner (or maybe another lunch) out of that stupidly big meal the restaurant serves me.

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

this, it's great because i get two or three meals for the price of one.

Re: AYRT

[diet_poison]

I'm not sure...a mix of gluttony and lack of perspective? But I find it frustrating.

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. There are a few reasons, but one of the big (pun not intended) ones is the way agriculture works in the US, and increasingly, around the world. Most farms in the US these days are factory farms; they grow one crop really well over a really large swath of land. Less than 2% of the US population are farmers, and the US farm subsidies, where the government buys surplus grain, soy, milk, and meat to keep prices stable, are how most farmers earn their living. The subsidies are basically rigged so that the only way farmers can make any money at all is to keep increasing their crop/meat/milk yields. But the population hasn't grown as fast as the food supply, and even with stuff like biofuels (which often require petroleum fertilizers to grow, so they kind of suck) there's still a lot more calories being produced in the US than people can reasonably be expected to eat. So the makers of processed foods spend a lot of money on advertising and a lot of effort to get frozen, fried, salty, sugary stuff into places like school cafeterias, where kids develop a taste for it. Lots of people don't really know how to cook anymore. And the end result of this and a lot of other stuff (poverty's a big one) is that Americans don't have reasonable appetites anymore. We eat something like 500 calories more a day than we did thirty-forty years ago. (Fresh fruits and veggies don't get subsidized mostly, 'cause they're hard to store. There's been a lot of 'public-interest/expose' type books on the subject released in recent years, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser and The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan are both informative reads on the subject. -a fat American who would like to apologize for the essay.

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

wait, so the fresh produce is sold less and is more expensive? I've watched those documentaries btw, but I tend to watch them with a grain of salt because they tend to be sensationalist in nature...

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah--depends where you live, but white flour and sugar and stuff are shelf-stable and so cost way less to store and ship than lettuce and kale and strawberries and whatever else. And I didn't know The Omnivore's Dilemma was a documentary, in both cases, I read the books--which have foot/end notes to check sources with.

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

We take like half our meal home.

If you go to an upscale restaurant they'll serve you normal serving sizes.