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In reply to the discussion: The real reason the French don’t get fat [View all]laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)of the time (I live in Canada too) my parents took us to Montana for some shopping and a tour of the mountain parks there. It was my first time in the US. We stopped at Pizza hut - this was 25 years ago or so - and ordered 2 extra large pizzas for the 4 of us (yeah, there was a teenage boy in there, lol), plus some sides. The waiter looked at us and said, "are you sure you want XL pizzas?" "Of course, that's what we always order, and it's $6 cheaper per pizza here than where we're from."
He says, "you're from Canada aren't you?" "yes, why?" "Just to let you know, our extra large is a bit bigger than the extra large in Canada" "oh that's okay, we'll take the left overs back to the hotel room." "okay" he said. When he brought us the pizza, our jaws hit the floor. The pizza was easily double the size we were expecting, LOL. It hardly fit on the table. The second one had to go on another table. The waiter laughed at our expression, "I told you so" he said.
We ate pizza for the next 2 days.