Why waste food to save money?

[Guest guest]

I don't understand why food establishments do this sort of thing.

No wonder we have an obesity problem in our society. I was watching

Must Love Dogs yesterday with Diane Lane. I love how she goes to

the meat counter and asks for 1 chicken breast. The guy at the

counter tries to sell her a whole fryer for just 75 cents more. She

gets really snippy at him, tells him I'm a singe, divorced woman, I

eat at the kitchen sink and alone and I don't want all that food to

go to waste. When you go to the movies and ask for a small popcorn

they try to sell you the large for just 50cents more! I'm sure it's

all about " sales " and " money " but look what it does to our

wastelines! As I write this, it makes me realize that our weight

problems are not because of us! It is because, yes, the stupid diet

industry, but also Capitalistic America!

I commend you for not giving in to this Capitalistic idealism not

paying the extra $6 to split your meal. Maybe if we all did that,

things might change? I don't know, just venting. Sorry.

alana

> >

> > Here's a story..We went out to a nice Italian restaurant; were

going to

> > share a meal, and my husband didn't want salad, so I was going to

> have that,

> > and we would split an appetizer, well come to find out the

restaurant

> > wouldn't let us split a meal without paying an extra $6.00 for a

> salad we

> > didn't want, or we had the option of buying another meal..so we

have

> to pay

> > extra because we said we were sharing a meal? Instead of giving

them

> money

> > for food we didn't want we had the appetizer and left. I could

have

> ordered

> > the extra meal, gorged on it, or taken it home to gorge on

later, or

> have

> > paid extra for a salad no one wanted to gorge on later, but I

just

> said it

> > wasn't worth the extra expense, or food. It wasn't the greatest

> experience

> > as far as a romantic night went though.

> >

> > Alia

> >

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