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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on July 31, 2008, 11:29:51 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222x38873
Oh my.
n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 11:46 AM
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U.S. food portions: Monuments of decadence?
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But with soaring food prices sparking protests in many countries and more than 800 million people going hungry every day, U.S. food portions are under scrutiny. A lightening of the American plate could ease pressure on worldwide demand, but not everyone is hopeful change will be coming any time soon.
With a bombardment of food ads, many aimed at children, Americans are tempted with an array of food choices. One fast-food chain calls its massive burger a "monument to decadence" while the Wendy's chain calls its "Baconator" a "mountain of mouth-watering taste."
Portion sizes in the United States not only exceed those in less-developed countries, but also in the developed world. In fact, Americans have the highest per capita daily consumption in the world, eating 3,770 calories a day, more than a Canadian at 3,590 calories or an Indian at 2,440, according to data from the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization.
"We've looked at large portion sizes almost entirely in terms of whether it's healthy for us, and now we have to consider is that sort of a demand going to be sustainable," said Paul Roberts, author of "The End of Food."
more:
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN26398...
mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 11:55 AM
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1. Yet how many people actually buy those things daily?
I got a feeling that the majority of america, you know the ones the media ignores unless its a crime story or a story about how unfair it is for the homeless and poor to get free birth control and the poor working man doesn't, eat once a day or once every other day? I mean people I know very rarely have the extra cash to enjoy eating out once a month, so wheres the balance? You wonder where the repubtards get there ideals on the welfare free ride? Stories like this, after all everyone knows how well welfare and homeless people eat and they are always found at fast food joints pan handling so they must be eating fast food. Heck of a Job MSM **** you.
itsjustme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 12:17 PM
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2. Doggy bags
Okay, it is a dated term. But it gets a mention in Wikipedia. Without exception, every restaurant that I go to offers the option of takeout boxes. I know parents who take their adult children out to eat and then give them all the leftovers, so they will have something to eat in their apartments the next day or two.
Rather than making the servings smaller, I would suggest the more liberal use of doggy bags.
I haven't been to Wendy's or McDonald's for over a decade, I would guess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leftovers
Leftovers from a restaurant meal may either be left behind to be discarded by the restaurant, or taken away by the diner for later consumption. In order to take the food away, the diner may make a request for it to be packaged. The container used for such leftovers is commonly called a doggie bag or doggy bag; the name comes from the euphemistic pretense that the food will be given to the diner's pet, rather than eaten by a person.<5> Doggy bags are most common in restaurants that offer a take-out food service as well as sit-down meals, and their prevalence as an accepted social custom varies widely by location.
The term "doggie bag" is now obsolete in (at least) much of the USA. While it is understood, a diner is more likely to request a "takeout box," a "to-go box," or just a "box." Another possibility is that the term "doggy bag" has origins in rural Cambridgeshire, England, where a "dockie bag" is what the lower-class farm hands historically used to carry their lunch each day. That term came from Victorian times when workers were docked pay while they ate lunch; lunch time was therefore "dockie time," and your lunch was carried in a "dockie bag."
pansypoo53219 (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 12:45 PM
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4. as long as you can recycle them.
styrofoam or plastic that is no where near a 1 or 2. but i use them for my palettes. cleaning off glass is such a bitch.
DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 12:27 PM
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3. Reads like a food industry excuse piece to move to smaller portions
....at the same price.
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If all the land, resources, effort and money that is put into growing the DUmmies dope (hash, pot, cocoa, poppies, etc.) went toward food production, they're wouldn't be any starving people in the world.
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I'm with the DUmmies on taking some of it home. Nobody says you have to stuff your mush with the whole portion. Take some home for the next day's lunch or something. Fill up on the salad at the beginning and a little bread and just have a little of the entree.
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If all the land, resources, effort and money that is put into growing the DUmmies dope (hash, pot, cocoa, poppies, etc.) went toward food production, they're wouldn't be any starving people in the world.
:rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: H5!
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The concept of leftovers is new to them? And they wonder why they can't be trusted with important matters like running the govt.
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Wendy's did a demographic study and found that people, most likely young people, wanted a "Baconater" or whatever. What's so hard for Dummies to understand about that?
Besides, it's best to not worry about things you cannot control, like starving people in other countries.
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If all the land, resources, effort and money that is put into growing the DUmmies dope (hash, pot, cocoa, poppies, etc.) went toward food production, they're wouldn't be any starving people in the world.
:rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: H5!
most definitely!
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itsjustme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-30-08 12:17 PM
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2. Doggy bags
Okay, it is a dated term. But it gets a mention in Wikipedia. Without exception, every restaurant that I go to offers the option of takeout boxes. I know parents who take their adult children out to eat and then give them all the leftovers, so they will have something to eat in their apartments the next day or two.
Life's tough when you're a DUmmy. :lmao:
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mrcheerful
Yet how many people actually buy those things daily?
I got a feeling that the majority of america, you know the ones the media ignores unless its a crime story or a story about how unfair it is for the homeless and poor to get free birth control and the poor working man doesn't, eat once a day or once every other day? I mean people I know very rarely have the extra cash to enjoy eating out once a month, so wheres the balance? You wonder where the repubtards get there ideals on the welfare free ride? Stories like this, after all everyone knows how well welfare and homeless people eat and they are always found at fast food joints pan handling so they must be eating fast food. Heck of a Job MSM **** you.
mrcheerful??
Kinda makes you wonder what he's like on a bad day.
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