Jim Logajan wrote:
> Icono Clast wrote:
> [ Healthful advice elided. ]
>
>> Don't eat in any restaurant with "Mom", "Mother", or "Home" in the
>> name
> ....
>> Many restaurants that serve otherwise healthful meals don't serve
>> vegetables.
> ....
>> Patronize restaurants with foods and cuisines that are unfamiliar
>> to you
>
> Alas - No where in your list of otherwise helpful points do you
> mention the unfortunate fact that restaurant serving sizes are often
> much too large.
I happen to have an enormous appetite and rarely find servings too
large. I often eat all of my food and half of someone else's.
> Sure, you may have picked all the healthiest menu selections from the
> healthiest restaurants, but the probability is that you'll get
> needlessly large portions.
You have no obligation to anyone to eat more than you feel you ought.
> Factor in a vacationer's sometimes modest attempts at fiscal
> frugality ("Gee, I paid for all this food, and if I don't eat it I'm
> wasting money") and the ironic twist that you don't get proper
> portions until you eat at expensive restaurants and I think one has a
> recipe for weight gain.
We disagree. Following the sig is a copy of the concluding part of two
posts from earlier this week to my local food group.
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Un San Francisqueño quien dice, "¡Tu me lo sirves, yo lo comeré!"
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. . .
Everything about the food's preparation and service was just fine. But
the quantity wasn't: we left hungry, feeling that our $75 was not well
spent, and sha'n't return.
That paragraph with a small change, and the following is repeated in
another post.
From: Icono Clast
Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 21:21
Subject: What is California Cuisine ?
Some years ago, I was taken to a well-known scab restaurant in the Post
Street basement of a scab hotel to be served one of the smallest and
most overvalued, though tasty, "meals" I've ever had.
It was probably in this forum that I mentioned having been served
"California Cuisine" and asked: "What the hell is that?"
At that time, Paul Moor, one of the world's foremost raconteurs and name
droppers, was living on Carl near Cole and participating in local
Groups, probably even in this one. He answered my question thus:
Too damn little for too .ing much! |