At 12:58 PM Friday 12/1/2006, 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!!!"
Around here, you can go to restaurants and get plates of several
cooked vegetables. When my father accompanied me out west he was
disappointed to discover that that is not the case. (I believe in
that case they had peas instead of corn.)
"Senior plates" are roughly 3/4 the size at 4/5 the price. That's an
improvement. Somewhat of an improvement.
For their profit margin, certainly.
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!!!!
Well, I'm more than a foot and 100 pounds short of those figures (and
my sports abilities are next to nonexistent), but I generally take
somewhat larger servings than you describe wanting. And if I don't
eat enough, my brain suffers and doesn't work properly. (No comments
from the peanut gallery.) For Thanksgiving, however, I did eat about
like a little old lady (specifically my 85-y.o. about 5-foot-nothing
stepmother, who hostessed the affair). But then that was pretty much
the first thing more solid than noodles I had eaten that week, during
which period there were several occasions where what was in the
alimentary canal was expelled rather forcefully from one end or the
other. But at least the turkey and all the other good stuff stayed
where it was supposed to . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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