Hi, Spade!
I know that by and large and your disclaimer that your post was not meant to be an anti-American rant was real, honest and heartfelt.
However, almost the very next post, (#3), turned it into exactly that.
'"Grits" are something that is best left for sloppin' pigs', implying that since Americans like GRITS they are 'slopping pigs". Canadians like oat-meal cereal. Now, oats are the favourite food of horses. Are, Canadians, therefore, slopping horses?
I am not going to bother to quote the rest of post #3. Its poster clerly has a complex of either inferiority or superiority. You take your pick.
As for the rest of your post:
"1. Why?
2. If you are an American, why is this amount an expectation?
3. If you are a Canadian, how do you cope?
4. Does this emphasis on excess bother you? "
1. I don't know.
2. Again, I don't know, since I am not American.
3. Anytime my wife and I travel in the States, we follow the example of our good friends from Indianapolis: Tell the server that we would like to share. No problem, he/she will bring our order with two sets of plates/dishes. I have not dared to try this Canada yet.
4. No, it does not bother me at all. It is only "excess" if any of the meal goes to waste (or waist).
"Big Bob's" portions may be generous. The flip side of that is what we found in a hy class restaurant in Winnipeg, located at Portage & Main. For a price that would have made Bill Gates think twice, we received filet mignons, size of a twoney, accompanied by watery and overcooked melange of peas and carrots.
In other words a meal that would have left an anorexic to starve.
We did not dare to ask for second cup of coffee. Some places in Canada still charge for that.
Poster of #3 ridicules Americans - with typical Canadian hutzpah - for being obese. He/she would be well-advised to remember that historically, just about everything that happens in the States, will, eventually happen in Canada.
So, under 5'6", 300 lbs. Canadians are not too far off in the future. Of course, when it happens, it will be all the fault of those horrible American restaurant chains, like Wendy's, McDonalds, Perkins, Olive Gardens, etc. that fed us too much but we were too greedy not to eat.
Another thing to consider, (in addition to food prices - properly pointed out by SirJosephPorter) is how cheap and how generous restaurants are in our two countries.
I know that by and large and your disclaimer that your post was not meant to be an anti-American rant was real, honest and heartfelt.
However, almost the very next post, (#3), turned it into exactly that.
'"Grits" are something that is best left for sloppin' pigs', implying that since Americans like GRITS they are 'slopping pigs". Canadians like oat-meal cereal. Now, oats are the favourite food of horses. Are, Canadians, therefore, slopping horses?
I am not going to bother to quote the rest of post #3. Its poster clerly has a complex of either inferiority or superiority. You take your pick.
As for the rest of your post:
"1. Why?
2. If you are an American, why is this amount an expectation?
3. If you are a Canadian, how do you cope?
4. Does this emphasis on excess bother you? "
1. I don't know.
2. Again, I don't know, since I am not American.
3. Anytime my wife and I travel in the States, we follow the example of our good friends from Indianapolis: Tell the server that we would like to share. No problem, he/she will bring our order with two sets of plates/dishes. I have not dared to try this Canada yet.
4. No, it does not bother me at all. It is only "excess" if any of the meal goes to waste (or waist).
"Big Bob's" portions may be generous. The flip side of that is what we found in a hy class restaurant in Winnipeg, located at Portage & Main. For a price that would have made Bill Gates think twice, we received filet mignons, size of a twoney, accompanied by watery and overcooked melange of peas and carrots.
In other words a meal that would have left an anorexic to starve.
We did not dare to ask for second cup of coffee. Some places in Canada still charge for that.
Poster of #3 ridicules Americans - with typical Canadian hutzpah - for being obese. He/she would be well-advised to remember that historically, just about everything that happens in the States, will, eventually happen in Canada.
So, under 5'6", 300 lbs. Canadians are not too far off in the future. Of course, when it happens, it will be all the fault of those horrible American restaurant chains, like Wendy's, McDonalds, Perkins, Olive Gardens, etc. that fed us too much but we were too greedy not to eat.
Another thing to consider, (in addition to food prices - properly pointed out by SirJosephPorter) is how cheap and how generous restaurants are in our two countries.
