This may not be a reasonable analogy--the pizza "wastage." with what you friend shared on food wastage in Canada and the US. Those foreigners could have ordered a slice or two each. Perhaps they bought a whole one since they felt the price was OK. Then, perhaps they just hated the pizza. Very much possible. Next time go for the pizza, and or give it to poor kids!
People tend to heap plates at ll-you-can-eat places, and at some point towards satiation---cannot follow through. That would be the third plate. That is what she must be saying. Portions in the US, unlike in Europe are much larger. But this is not true if you at say McDonalds. etc. A Burger is just that a burger, a bun and a puny slab of meet. That changes when condiments are added, if its a double cheese burger, quarter pounder, etc. A small pack of fries is just that, not much inundation. The question of heaping will only come up in all-you-can-eat joints, in Las Vegas, casinos, Midwest, or if people are invited over and they hate your food. As with anybody, Americans have a varied taste palette; they have choices, at least in the cities. So one must factor that in what you see them do or do not do. But that does not mean that all the food one eats here is good. To do that one has to make choices, accept and reject. Just because something tastes good does not mean it is good either. And so forth. venantius j pinto Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:13:45 +0530 > From: Tony de Sa <tonyde...@gmail.com> > To: "Goa's Premiere Mailing List, Estd 1994" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> > Subject: [Goanet] Conspicuous consumption? > > I was having a pizza at one of the chain pizza stores in Calangute when > three foreigners, possibly of European or American ethnicity ordered three > large (12 inch) pizzas there. They each just ate one slice and left the > rest > which the swampers thrashed. > > Discussing this incident with a friend of mine who had spent some time in > Canada and the US, she told me that it was not unusual for the people of > these countries to go to fast food places and order platefuls of food, take > a few bites and waste a whole lot. > > What a shame when there are a number of people in the world who are > starving. > > -- > > Tony de Sa. tonydesa at gmail dot com M : +91 9975 162 897 Ph. : +91 > 832 2470 148 > > ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v > >
