American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up

Re:American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food... by sillyquiet on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:33AM (#17960050)

I love finding restaurants that serve food in 'normal' portion sizes (normal being enough for a hungry single human being). I dunno about other posters here, but I was raised by parents who predated the current obesity epidemic and whose own parents went through the Great Depression and 'clean your plate' and 'children are starving in Africa' were common refrains.

I feel a great need to finish what I am served, and is has been a hard fought battle to not do that when the portion sizes are as ridiculously oversized as they can be in America.

Eating with my spouse helps, as we can always split plates, but still. Vastly prefer smaller portion sizes.

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Re:American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food... by bunderbunder on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:45AM (#17960162)

Back when I was having trouble with overeating at restaurants due to a similar "clean your plate" mentality, I got in the habit of just packing a Tupperware with me. When the food came, I'd pack up half of it and stick it under my chair before I started eating.

A bit gauche, I realize, but better that than overeating. Rather striking to have such a concrete illustration that restaurants were giving me fully twice as much food as I really needed to be eating, too.

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Re:American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food... by EADGBE on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:05AM (#17960370)

There's few memories I have so vividly of my childhood.

The one that sticks out most is the emotional abuse I'd received from friends parent's when I couldn't finish my entire plate (but still ate a little bit of everything).

Fuck them for that.

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