/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14739761
Have you seen how fat Americans are? I used to be just like that 225 pure muscle faggot, but I've spent the last 12 months drinking heavily and eating like trash so I'm now a 265lb bloatlord. Even I can't eat a fucking meal like that. That's advanced Americaning.

>>14739761
Idk, I think the assumption is that you don’t eat the entire portion, unless you’re a fatass or 6’5

>>14739771
225 lbs is already obese

>>14739761
I eat 3,000 kcal meals but only once a day.

>>14739774
So you're supposed to just throw half of it away?

>>14739778
Well depends on height, and in some respects higher body weight has risks, but a ripped 225lb guy is is going to be healthier than a 165lb couch potato.

>>14739771
You couldn't eat that if you had a really bad case of the drunk munchies? I could and I'm 164 pounds.

>>14739787
I mean I 'could" eat it if challenged or something, but I'd never just eat that entire meal voluntarily in one sitting. Maybe sans pancakes if super hungry. Buy typically sans toast too, and I'd have a smaller lunch. I really am getting a lot of my calories from booze, booze is not low cal.

What kind of potatoes are those? I've genuinely never seen those at diners

>>14739761
it all has to do with economics. restraunt A sells a certain portion of food for $X Restaurant B comes along sells same meal slightly larger meal for slightly less $X consumer wants to save money and get best deal goes to restaurant B.

A sees this and lowers price or increases portion to get consumer back. soon portion size becomes the norm. also pic related.

>>14739835
Why does this only happen in america then? If it's just economics it would be the same everywhere, but in europe portion sizes are much smaller.

>>14739761
the restaurnts i go to have pretty normal portion sizes. oddly enough, they cost more than the ones taht have big portions.

i'm in the northeast USA by the way.

>>14739847
maybe you don't have the consumer drive of the US, maybe it's a "tradition" thing. I can tell you it's been like this since shortly after independence.

I read an article from the 1800's written by a eurofag regarding this very thing, he was astonished by the portion size in American restaurant. Of course back then people ate a ton of food and didn't get fat because they worked harder and didn't have High fructose corn syrup in everything.

>>14739835
I couldn't find a better pic but this place is a fancy diner near me. Their food is good. They don't skimp on the portions though, but they charge like $20-25 for a typical entree. I think there's just the expectation that portions should be huge. Any time I go there, I only eat 1/2 my meal, and make a whole other meal with the other half and I can eat a lot. Pic doesn't show the roughly 8-10oz of cheesy grits that come with it.

>>14739893
I went to colorado springs one year (long ago) there was a restaurant there called farmer johns (or something like that) we had never heard of it, we sit down and this guy comes out dressed in coveralls and gives us bread. COOL then we order dinner "steak and whatever" he brings out an appetizer that is part of the meal and it was a small metal bucket (maybe half a gallon of soup)

I eat a bowl and there is still enough soup for 4 people. WTF! we both didn't eat anymore because we still had our meal coming.

When we got the meal it was (of course) rather large. We could barely eat it because of the bread and soup.

We could not take it with use because we had no place to store the leftovers. I hate throwing food away but that's what happened. enough food for 4 people got thrown away that night.


I have also eaten at Claim jumpers that place has ridiculous portion sizes. I ordered a ribey steak it was 24oz with a bone, it came with a GIANT salad (which was a meal by itself) 2 large potatoe cakes, and enormous plate sized bisquit and a mother fucking APPLE!

I took most of it home and made 4 meals out of it.

>>14739795
I've woken up drunk, half blacked out, and starving due to not having eaten anything many hours before I started drinking and could easily demolish OP's meal and more without it being a challenge. That was before I cut back a shitload on my alcohol consumption, though.

>>14739945
Did you just binge eat that, and then not really eat again for 12 hours though? Like, I could eat that on an empty stomach at 10am, but I'd probably not eat again until the evening/night for dinner.

>>14739929
They didn't let you take home the soup or shit? Most places that hand out shit like that but have like 15-25 buck meals usually let you IME. It's usually the places operating on thin ass margins, doing like 10-12 meals that have those rules (mostly because of the clientele)

>>14739969
Yeah that would basically be my only meal of the day. When I was drinking really heavily, I wouldn't get hungry until I was piss drunk and then I'd just eat the living hell out of everything.

These were the pancakes my favorite diner served. I'd usually get the stack of three and get through about half of one on a good day then take the rest home and have great breakfast for a week.