On Thu 15 May 2008 01:17:58p, Pete C. told us...


Ms P wrote:

"kilikini" wrote in message
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jmcquown wrote:
Pete C. wrote:
jmcquown wrote:


What says "serves 4" means serves 2, at least in my world. My
serving size isn't generally 5 tablespoonfuls of whatever.

Wouldn't it be funny if they started marking vegetables this way?
Oh no, sorry, that big honkin' baked potato serves 4!

Jill

Yea, I seem to recall that the government standard bagel is about
1/6 the size of what anyone would consider a normal bagel (in the
US at least).

God forbid I should eat an entire biscuit, then! LOL

Oh, no, you must only have half and dunk it into a thimble-sized
rameken of soup. :~)

kili

Why do people think that you can only have one serving of anything and
that serving must be however much they want to put on their plate?
It's no wonder people in this country are getting so fat.

A biscuit is probably two servings of bread. A bowl of soup is
probably two servings. You are ALLOWED to have more than ONE
serving!!!

Ms P

I'm also allowed to define what I consider a serving, and tell the
government and other serving size nazis to **** off.


hehehe! I'm wit ya!

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On Thu 15 May 2008 01:17:58p, Pete C. told us...


Ms P wrote:

"kilikini" wrote in message
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jmcquown wrote:
Pete C. wrote:
jmcquown wrote:


What says "serves 4" means serves 2, at least in my world. My
serving size isn't generally 5 tablespoonfuls of whatever.

Wouldn't it be funny if they started marking vegetables this way?
Oh no, sorry, that big honkin' baked potato serves 4!

Jill

Yea, I seem to recall that the government standard bagel is about
1/6 the size of what anyone would consider a normal bagel (in the
US at least).

God forbid I should eat an entire biscuit, then! LOL

Oh, no, you must only have half and dunk it into a thimble-sized
rameken of soup. :~)

kili

Why do people think that you can only have one serving of anything and
that serving must be however much they want to put on their plate?
It's no wonder people in this country are getting so fat.

A biscuit is probably two servings of bread. A bowl of soup is
probably two servings. You are ALLOWED to have more than ONE
serving!!!

Ms P

I'm also allowed to define what I consider a serving, and tell the
government and other serving size nazis to **** off.


Reminds of back in the 1960s and a friend with whom I used often cook and
eat with. If we bought a package of something and it said "serves 6", we'd
say "or two pigs". :-) That was us.

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Wayne Boatwright
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Thursday, 05(V)/15(XV)/08(MMVIII)
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Countdown till Memorial Day
1wks 3dys 10hrs 30mins
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It's always easier to just fall than
to try to climb.
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cshenk wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote

Serving sizes are probably regulated by someone, somehow, for some
obscure reason. It always kills me to see what you describe. Like
what, you're going to feed two adults and a small child from that
can of soup?

I think their aim on soups is usually that you serve them also with a
samwich or largish salad, hence less per person.

I have no idea what their "aim" is when it comes to canned soup. I
generally only order a "cup" of soup (in lieu of salad) at a restaurant. If
I order a bowl of soup that's the meal.

Jill

Wayne wrote on Thu, 15 May 2008 20:33:37 GMT:

Ms P wrote:
I'm also allowed to define what I consider a serving, and
tell the government and other serving size nazis to **** off.

hehehe! I'm wit ya!


A very reasonable viewpoint but many of us read the nutrition
information quickly without checking what is a serving size
since what we are interested in is the daily allotment of, say,
salt.
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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

jmcquown wrote on Thu, 15 May 2008 15:45:10 -0500:

cshenk wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote

Serving sizes are probably regulated by someone, somehow,
for some obscure reason. It always kills me to see what you
describe. Like what, you're going to feed two adults and a
small child from that can of soup?

I think their aim on soups is usually that you serve them
also with a samwich or largish salad, hence less per person.

I have no idea what their "aim" is when it comes to canned
soup. I generally only order a "cup" of soup (in lieu of
salad) at a restaurant. If I order a bowl of soup that's the
meal.

Roughly speaking, I agree but it would be good to know what a
restaurant considers a "cup" and a "bowl". They might as well
say "small" and "regular" which is just as specific!

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

James wrote to jmcquown on Thu, 15 May 2008 21:12:25 GMT:

cshenk wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote

Serving sizes are probably regulated by someone, somehow,
for some obscure reason. It always kills me to see what
you describe. Like what, you're going to feed two adults
and a small child from that can of soup?

I think their aim on soups is usually that you serve them
also with a samwich or largish salad, hence less per person.

I have no idea what their "aim" is when it comes to canned
soup. I generally only order a "cup" of soup (in lieu of
salad) at a restaurant. If I order a bowl of soup that's the
meal.

Roughly speaking, I agree but it would be good to know what a
restaurant considers a "cup" and a "bowl". They might as well
say "small" and "regular" which is just as specific!

I'll just add that my favorite Pho restaurant has two sizes:
"regular" and "large". If you don't share the large you might as
well resign yourself to napping after lunch!

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

James Silverton wrote:

I'll just add that my favorite Pho restaurant has two sizes: "regular"
and "large". If you don't share the large you might as well resign
yourself to napping after lunch!

I don't drink coffee, and rarely go into Starbucks for a cup of tea. I
sit there baffled by the size selection- large? grande? venti? HUH?

Goomba38s wrote:
James Silverton wrote:
I'll just add that my favorite Pho restaurant has two sizes: "regular"
and "large". If you don't share the large you might as well resign
yourself to napping after lunch!

I don't drink coffee, and rarely go into Starbucks for a cup of tea. I
sit there baffled by the size selection- large? grande? venti? HUH?

Are you sure you didn't wnder into Victoria's Secret by mistake?

Goomba38 wrote:

James Silverton wrote:

I'll just add that my favorite Pho restaurant has two sizes: "regular"
and "large". If you don't share the large you might as well resign
yourself to napping after lunch!

I don't drink coffee, and rarely go into Starbucks for a cup of tea. I
sit there baffled by the size selection- large? grande? venti? HUH?

I just order "large" and never have an issue. Homie don't play the
"venti" game...

"Ms P" wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message

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James Silverton wrote:
Hello All!

Today, I used some Campbell's French Onion Soup. The ingredient
list indicated "about 2.5 servings". Why would any want to serve
half a person or is it just a way to reduce the amounts of fat
or salt listed?

Serving sizes are probably regulated by someone, somehow, for some obscure
reason. �It always kills me to see what you describe. �Like what, you're
going to feed two adults and a small child from that can of soup?

What says "serves 4" means serves 2, at least in my world. �My serving
size
isn't generally 5 tablespoonfuls of whatever.

Wouldn't it be funny if they started marking vegetables this way? �Oh no,
sorry, that big honkin' baked potato serves 4!

Jill

What you put on your plate or in your bowl is not the serving size.

That big honkin' baked potato might very well be 4 SERVINGS and not serve 4
people. �A single serving is about 1/2 cup. �You can of course have more
than ONE serving. �Unless of course you consider that big honkin' potato ONE
serving then you're going to be way over eating.

Depends on many other factors... if you don't eat the hunks of bread
slathered with butter, don't have the typical empty calorie
appetizers, no dessert and don't drink the entirte bottle of dago red
then that jumbo spud is not over eating... potatoes in of themselvs
are not fattening, in fact just the opposite, they make a healthful
filling vegetable so you don't eat all the chazeri. A large baked
potato with a dollop of fat free yogurt sprinkled with herbs makes for
a very nutritious and health conscious part of a meal, goes a long way
to keep the meat portion smaller too.

"James Silverton" wrote

A very reasonable viewpoint but many of us read the nutrition information
quickly without checking what is a serving size since what we are
interested in is the daily allotment of, say, salt.

If you're worried about the sodium or calories, whatever, you'd
better check the serving size and do the math. You could be
in for a real shock. They will make the serving size small enough
to make the numbers look reasonable. Like, who eats a half
a pot pie?

At the same time, if I have a can of soup for lunch, assuming the
numbers aren't outlandish (you know the sodium is probably going to
be high!), I am not splitting it with 1 1/2 other people. That's my
lunch, all 385 calories, back off! Heh.

nancy

On Thu 15 May 2008 01:45:10p, jmcquown told us...

cshenk wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote

Serving sizes are probably regulated by someone, somehow, for some
obscure reason. It always kills me to see what you describe. Like
what, you're going to feed two adults and a small child from that can
of soup?

I think their aim on soups is usually that you serve them also with a
samwich or largish salad, hence less per person.

I have no idea what their "aim" is when it comes to canned soup. I
generally only order a "cup" of soup (in lieu of salad) at a restaurant.
If I order a bowl of soup that's the meal.

Jill

Yeah, I don't get it either. A standard can of condensed soup,
reconstituted, is usually 16 fluid ounces, or 2 cups. If it were for a
meal with bread or crackers, then the whole can would be the meal. Even
served as a "cup of soup", it would only serve 2 in my house, not 2 and a
half.



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"James Silverton" wrote in message
news:elYWj.3680$LL.1299@trnddc04...
Hello All!

Today, I used some Campbell's French Onion Soup. The ingredient
list indicated "about 2.5 servings". Why would any want to serve
half a person or is it just a way to reduce the amounts of fat
or salt listed?

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

It's just a way to manipulate the nutritional information so it doesn't look quite
so heinous.

kimberly

"jmcquown" wrote in message
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kilikini wrote:
Ms P wrote:
No wonder the country gets fatter every day.

Ms P

I'd eat half the potato, take the other half home and call it a day.
:~)

kili

I can barely eat the potato, forget about the bread basket. Mrs.P is
projecting her fat self on everyone else.

Jill


Wrong. Apparently I'm the only one that understands what servings are and
how many servings you should have in one day.

Go to any nutritionist and get an education.

Ms P

jmcquown said...

cshenk wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote

Serving sizes are probably regulated by someone, somehow, for some
obscure reason. It always kills me to see what you describe. Like
what, you're going to feed two adults and a small child from that
can of soup?

I think their aim on soups is usually that you serve them also with a
samwich or largish salad, hence less per person.

I have no idea what their "aim" is when it comes to canned soup. I
generally only order a "cup" of soup (in lieu of salad) at a restaurant.
If I order a bowl of soup that's the meal.

Jill


Lightweight!!!

I'll eat Pea Soup Andersen's bottomless split pea soup in Buelton, CA and a
tri-tip steak sandwich until the... ??? peas come home?

Andy