On 2/6/2021 9:25 AM, Graham wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 09:04:24 -0800, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>
>> On 2/6/2021 8:59 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 2/1/2021 6:21 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> Cuisine minceur was roundly mocked for charging the earth for a
>>>> miniscule portion of food.
>>>>
>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>>> I recall in the early 1980's my parents went to dinner with another
>>> couple at one of the fancy restaurants in The Peabody Hotel in Memphis.
>>> My parents didn't have huge appetites but my father told me he was
>>> *stunned* at the miniscule portions. A tiny piece of meat, a couple of
>>> boiled fingerling potatoes and maybe three haricot verts, oh so artfully
>>> arranged on the plate. At a cost of about $80.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>>
>>
>>
>> We had an event at a French restaurant, and after dinner and dessert a
>> number of people left the program to go out and get something to eat.
>
> Yeah, well, the French eat to live, USians live to eat, and the obesity
> rates confirm that!
>


I don't think the French eat to live. If they did, they food would be
simple, fast crap.

The French and Italians eat to find fulfillment in the quality of the
food. Most Americans eat to find fulfillment in fulfillment.