PAT MATHEWS wrote:
From: Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Dec 1, 2006, at 7:23 AM, PAT MATHEWS wrote:
Yeah. But before you go off on how Evil McDoonald's is, let me
point out they're one of the few places I can get decent portions.
In higher class places if you want a hamburger you get a 6 to 8
ouncer for corresponding prices. I'm not into eating that much. I
go for the fast food where 1/4 is still considered a good size.
You should really look at the offerings at Carl's Jr.
Mmmm. Six Dollar Burger...
Dave
A Six Dollar Burger is precisely what I do NOT want!!!!! I do NOT want
lumberjack-sized portions at lumberjack prices!!!! I am getting sick to
death of finding that the only option on the menu unless I can somehow
pass myself off as being under 10 years old - and then enduring the
starch & fried stuff offered the kiddies. "We have macaroni and cheese -
and for our vegetable, we have CORN!!!"
"Senior plates" are roughly 3/4 the size at 4/5 the price. That's an
improvement. Somewhat of an improvement.
I want one-ounce cookies, 2-4 ounce hamburgers, plates with actual
vegetables on them (and NOT boiled to death with grease in them) and
portions no larger than what grown adults who did manual labor used to
eat 50-60 years ago. I want a one-egg breakfast burrito and a 2-egg
omelet. I want French toast, not French "Texas Toast." I want pancakes
the size you get on a side order, not pancakes that cover an entire
modern dinner plate. I want potatoes the size of a stapler, not the size
of a football. I want 8-ounce cups of coffee to be available and
drinking glasses at the dinner table to hold 8 ounces of milk
comfortably, not to demand 16 ounces.
I am a little old lady, dammit, not a 7-foot 300 pound football player!!!!
And that rant sounds a lot like one my mom delivered awhile back, when
she was still in her 50s. :) So she figured out how to get what she
wanted at various places, and avoided the ones where she couldn't -- or
took home 1/2 to 2/3 of the food served.
Julia
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