For Mrs. Jones, who wanted to see how big the dinners really are here.
Item One. A birthday cake from the local Safeway:
Jason has left his hand in the shot to show scale, much like people do when they measure up against a new born baby.
Item Two. Aunty Lindsey’s dinner when we went out on Saturday night:
This plate is the size of one of those plates in a restaurant where the portions are all usually teeny weeny and come on massive meat dishes to show how dinky they are. Only they got it wrong here and just kept on filling the plate. By the time Lindsey had eaten her fill you could hardly see that she had made a dent in it. She had the rest of the portion boxed up to take home and it lasted her for another two meals. This one portion is three meal’s worth. Insane or what?
One thing that does make me happy here is the large quantities of coffee you get:
This is my own, personal coffee supply when we went to the diner for lunch yesterday. Now that’s one monster portion you won’t hear me complaining about.
Yep it’s the same here. I generally ask for an entree size meal.
Sharon
That is a wise decision.
It is criminally wasteful how much food the North Americans throw away – they truly do have no clue about not wasting resources. The alarming thing I’ve found is, though, that the longer you’re there, the more you’re capable of eating so you start off eating a quarter of the plate, and end up eating it all and demanding dessert.
Mrs Jones
Good job we’re coming home soon then.
I find American portions are generally even bigger than Canadian ones, if you can even imagine that. And there are normal-sized birthday cakes at Safeway too. You’ve shown what’s called a “slab” cake (appetizing name, isn’t it?) and honestly, those are marketed to larger groups of birthday partiers, like 10 or 12 people. (But of course, any single person could actually eat that entire cake, if she liked it that much and had a few days in which to eat it!)
Pinklea
I’d give it my best shot if forced but I’d probably need a week.
All that cake and they couldn’t squeeze in the ‘e’ in Value.Yes,I am pedantic.I could put up with ‘Valu Cofe’ though,if I had it all to myself.
Jenny
Yes. Valu cofe is ver goo