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With Type II Diabetes and heart disease lined up around the drive thru at McDonalds.
In a country where most of the population is obese and still continues to eat themselves into the grave anyone who has a modicum of self-control to eat only half their entree should be lauded not derided in self-serving tones of thinly vieled "Fat-Pride".
It is really amazing how much the average American eats and how much the Average American gets served at a restaurant. Even the swankiest $200 a plate establishment puts buffet sized portions in front of a person that would be two meals in Europe or two days worth of food for a family in Somalia.
Watching people eat nowadays is like watching a twisted, unattractive version of the Roman Feast minus the binging and purging. You haven't gotten your money's worth from a restaurant until you leave, hobbling out, busting at the seems, bloated.
Maybe those well-dressed, skinny Foodies understood that eating can be more than just an exercise in consumption.
