It’s all a conspiracy!
As the food portions have gotten ginormous over the decades, the toilet paper rolls have shrunken to half their original size, at double the cost.
The restaurants are in cahoots with TP manufacturers, I tells ya!
I’ve been in the US for almost nine years. There’s only one restaurant I can go to where the portion is small enough that I can finish it. Everywhere else, we have to bring home leftovers. I’ve never had room for dessert at any restaurant in all my time here. You are served a ridiculous amount of food, nearly everywhere. We have to do without the appetizer, which is the size of a “normal” meal itself, or we can only manage half of the entree. It’s stupid.
Looks pretty good. I wouldn’t eat something like that regularly, but I’d give myself even odds of breaking that speed record.
Aw, shucks, Ma’am. blush
That looks pretty good?
If that looks good – just out of curiosity – could you say what amount of food might look unappetizing to you, or is there just no such thing?
Look at the picture of the burger with the knife in it. The burger has similar dimensions to the person’s head. It’s too big, by at least a factor of 4 to bite into. It requires two hands to pick up, and two hands barely looks sufficient. There’s a picture of a guy on that page who looks like he’s going to vomit, and he’s barely half way through. The buns have become thin, and soaked with grease.
If that looks good to someone, I simply can’t imagine what would not look good.
That looks like a child-size at The Cheesecake Factory.
Just because it isn’t healthy doesn’t mean it won’t taste good… as a matter of fact, the less healthy it is, the better it tastes.
That takes me back. Remember ‘The Trough’? It was a double banana split and if you finished it you got a ribbon and a bit of waitperson theater/public attention/humiliation.
I agree. . .a cheeseburger with fries looks good. It’s not healthy. 2 large cheeseburgers stacked on top of each other with different kinds of cheese, a pickles-jar worth of pickles, and grease-soaked buns looks gluttonous, wasteful, and disgusting.
You say that like it was a bad thing…
With you people talking about the Zoo and the Volcano and the Trough, here’s (warning pdf) the Farrell’s menu and they’re all on it.
How many Farrell’s are there, anyway? There was a DopeFest at the one in San Diego a few years ago.
According to this… two. Santa Clarita, California and Kaneohe, Hawaii.
Honest to god. It’s an exercise in psychological terror to eat there! “Can I finish?” “Will I blow chunks if I try?” :o Even their drinks are gigantic.
I miss Farrell’s! We had one in Louisville, Kentucky, when I was growing up. The last time I was there was in college, c 1982.
Woohoo! I finally know what’s in an Awful-Awful! Ruth Doan MacDougal’s Snowy series starts out with Snowy, a New Hampshire teenager, wanting to be the first girl in her town to drink three A-As. While she’s drinking them, her friend offhandedly says, “I wonder what they put in them to make them thicker than a shake or a malted?” And it was never stated! Now I know: syrup, milk and ice milk.
Incidentally, Snowy hadn’t known that there was a free A-A as a reward; she’d thought just being commemorated would be enough. When presented with the coupon, she makes a comment to the effect of “As if I could ever face one of those again.” And later in life, she becomes an organic/whole/health foodie. Just as well: she probably barely escaped gout, between the A-As and her marshmallow fluff sandwiches.
It’s all relative.
I think that burger looks like it might be tasty, though it would undoubtably make me physically ill.
Marc
A place called “Cheeburger Cheeburger” that serves fries & Pepsi and has no locations in Illinois? That’s just wrong!
Looks like I need to correct the Wikipedia entry for the Billy Goat Tavern. Didn’t think that “No Pepsi. Coke!” line sounded right.