Do you judge takeout food by weight?

Cafe Society
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I just finished eating takeout Chinese food from a new place tonight and when I received the bag (three dishes, fried rice, house special noodle and eggplant and tofu), I was pleasantly surprised by the weight.

When I order takeout (called plate lunch here in Hawaii), I’m always more pleased by heft than quality. I feel ripped off no matter how good the food is, which since it’s takeout which IMO, is already down a quality peg or two. Even though it’s the exact same thing as I’d get as a sitdown meal.

I suspect this may be a local thing, I see others do the same thing I do. Look kind of disappointed if the bag is easily lifted or a slight smile if it causes your arm to drop.

The King and Queen of plate lunches was the sadly long gone Masu’s Massive Plate Lunch Special described and shown here: 'Ono Kine Grindz: Masu's Massive Plate Lunch. Enough for two or three “normal” eaters, but enough to make even 300+ pounders break a sweat.
Here’s the breakdown of this 3-4 pound beauty:

Lau lau (pork wrapped in taro leaves)
A scoop of mac salad(an island staple)
1/3 can of Spam (the Island’s favorite!)
Two shoyu (soy sauce) hot dogs
Kalua pig (similar to pulled pork but ohhh…so much better)
Two teriyaki chicken thighs
Two scoops of sticky white rice

$6.80 in 2004!

Herre’s a couple more: https://retireenews.org/2019/04/21/off-track-masus-massive-plate-lunch/

The closest I’ve come to finishing a special in one sitting was eating everything but the can (yes an unopened can!) of Vienna sausage.

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I’ll admit that I feel disappointed when I get a bag of takeout that doesn’t feel as heavy as the monetary loss did…

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I’m not impressed by heavy pizza that includes more dough than tasty ingredients.
:pizza:

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While I prefer thin crust myself, in good pizza, the dough is the tasty part.

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We get a lot of Thai take-out, and from some places that we no longer patronize a quart container of red Thai curry will be mostly sauce with not much in the way of meat and veggies. The sauce is mostly water so it’s weighty but there’s not a lot of substance there. So weight alone I’d say is not always a good indicator of the quality and quantity of the food.