Reply #158: Valid point there about the plate size ...

[Nihil]

> He says their plates are much smaller than ours and so, portions are, too.

Having grown up with the culture that "you finish what's on your plate",
I found it a real shock to get plates in the US that were more like serving
trays ... your concept of "portion size" is way larger than anyone's in Europe.
:wow:

> It made me wonder if as a culture, we have a more immediate sense/memory
> of hunger which might account for our tendency to want big portions and
> snack all day.

I think it also has something to do with attention span too ... something
that can be bolted down between conversations before the boredom factor
sets in (cf. the "news-bite" attitude of your "news" programmes and
documentaries that spend the last third of the segment talking about
what will be coming up after the commercial break then the first third
recapping the little that was said before the break ...).

:shrug: