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[Biciclista]

Just got back from California where it was warm enough that some of us wanted icecream. We went into an icecream joint and I asked for what I always asked for. A single scoop on a sugar cone. To my horror, she started making a grapefruit sized ball of ice cream to put on my cone. NO! i said, I want HALF that! she said, well, this is what you paid for. I continued pleading with her and finally she started to listen and gave me a more reasonably sized portion. Meanwhile, others in the party had ordered 2 scoops or 1 scoop and they were rewarded with immense amounts of icecream.
I was horrified. (and so were some of them)

The very next day we were in Old Folsom, at a really good candy/ice cream store. I saw they had a "child's cone" listed above the single and double scoops. That's what I ordered. It was the right size.

What do you guys do about the huge portions that we are served at food establishments?

[papaver]

I really dislike it. Whenever I visit the States it's exactly that what freaks me out. How can you enjoy your food like that? Small portions: more pleasure!

With huge portions like that you always eat too much. No wonder there is so much obesity in our Western world...

[Thorn]

Just read this....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_183955.html

We are an obese nation. Sizes are large for large people; the portion sizes make people large....a vicious circle. I agree with you, request smaller portions....maybe, just maybe that small voice will be heard, but I doubt it.

[Grog]

What do you guys do about the huge portions that we are served at food establishments?

I sometimes ask for half the fries, for example. I get funny looks, so usually I preface my request with: "I know I paid for more, but I would like to have just..." and usually they are understanding. I do that for coffee, too. If I give them my travel mug, they fill it all. No way I'll drink all of that.

I almost never go to Starbucks but once or twice a year I'll end up getting something there. I ask for a "short." It's not on the menu but you can get it, and it's actually programmed in their cash register, for nearly all drinks (except the frozen ones). It's - to me - a "normal size" coffee, about 8 oz.

[Biciclista]

I almost never go to Starbucks but once or twice a year I'll end up getting something there. I ask for a "short." It's not on the menu but you can get it, and it's actually programmed in their cash register, for nearly all drinks (except the frozen ones). It's - to me - a "normal size" coffee, about 8 oz.

haha, me too. They ask me what size and I say "small" and they say you want a grande (or whatever) and I say, no I want a small one!

[Zen]

I ordered a small ice cream from McDonalds.and was told they only have one size.

I pinched off the top half of Mr.Softee and dropped it in the gutter (drive thru)

[Flybye]

I ordered a small ice cream from McDonalds.and was told they only have one size.

I pinched off the top half of Mr.Softee and dropped it in the gutter (drive thru)

That is great - I can almost hear the thought process in your head "you SAY you don't have a small - WELL TAKE THAT!!!"

It isn't like they CAN'T stop the ice cream machine to make a small, it is that they WON'T.

[Biciclista]

and honestly, in this profit driven economy; why are they giving us such huge portions?!??!

[7rider]

What do you guys do about the huge portions that we are served at food establishments?

On those rare occasions when we get ice cream, I try to order "child size" cones as a matter of course. I figure, ice cream is a treat....I don't want to blow a whole day's worth of calories on it! (and no, I am by no means an obsessive calorie counter)

To me, large portions at restaurants are just lunch the next day.....

[BikeDutchess]

On those rare occasions when we get ice cream, I try to order "child size" cones as a matter of course.

I tried to order a child size cone once and they refused to sell it to me because I was an adult...

[smilingcat]

SUPERSIZE ME!!!

Its not just in the restaurants anymore!!

Take a Joy of Cooking from the '50s look up the recipe and see how many serving it has. Take the latest edition of Joy of Cooking and look up the same recipe. It now serves 4 instead of 6 or 8 from the older edition. Ingredient size hasn't changed just the serving size. that's what I read recently.

My personal experience. I have a Betty Crocker Cookie book from 1962?? Brownie recipe says it'll make 40 pieces. Fat chance. It only makes about a dozen. And their chaux pastry, it says it will make about 30 cream puffs. I'm lucky to get a dozen.

As for restaurants. We take our tupper ware with us. eat what we want and rest goes into our tupper ware for later. We normally can get 2-1/2 meals out of single serving. We noticed when we ask for doggie bag it, the restaurant will throw away about a half so they can put it into a smaller container. (containers cost the restaurant anywhere from 20 cents to 60 cents) We paid for it, WE GONNA TAKE IT HOME!!! BE ECO-FRIENDLY WE SAY!!! Who cares if others think we are crazy. If we all do it, it becomes the norm. Take your tupper ware and bring it home!!