It is now two weeks since we returned from our trip to Florida. We thoroughly enjoyed it, saw some wonderful places, animals, birds, Weather was mostly very kind to us.
As I mostly write about food on this blog, I thought I would make a few observations on that aspect of our trip. Mostly we ate very well but my biggest gripe is the ridiculous amount of food you are served and how much food is binned! I heard on TV the other day the surprising fact that 20% of Americans are on the bread line. Judging by what we saw, a large amount of the remaining 80% eat far, far too much. Living here in France, when we go out for a meal, we will have 3 courses, or 4 if you have cheese, all nice small manageable sizes and you feel nicely full at the end. You rarely see any food left to be thrown away. In USA we could never manage more than 1 course. Even then, we often got so much we couldn't eat it. If we ordered a sandwich, we always seemed to get a pile of (unwanted) chips (fries) with them. With all the starving people in this world, it really something that needs to be addressed. Smaller servings = smaller prices too!
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