A Cherry Pastry You Could Die For
The cherry pastry is as big as a dinner plate. It weighs about a half a pound. In the center is a half pint of cherries and there must be at least 500 calories worth of glaze drizzled over the top.
This pastry is over the top.
If Americans wonder why they are fat, all they have to do is look at how the sizes of simple items, from muffin to hamburger have burgeoned over the past 20 years.
Who can stay thin when it takes two hands to lift a hamburger or a muffin?
A bakery croissant in the US is about 3 times larger than the flaky treats served in Paris. Twelve ounces of beer isn’t enough anymore, they are jamming in 16 ounces in numerous bottles, never mind the 40 ounce monsters that are sold as single servings.
If you order a Coca Cola in Italy, chances are you will get a seven ounce bottle, exactly like the ones people bought here in the 50s.
The best Coca Cola I ever had was in Italy, and I think the size had a lot to do with it. Speaking of Italy, they use small juice glasses or small stemmed glasses to serve their wine, while here we buy humongous balloon glasses that will hold a half bottle of wine, then get schnockered and have the audacity to say: I only had two glasses of wine.
Gluttony thy name is American food and beverage portions. Even our coffee cups are big as spittoons for crissakes.
When ONE pastry, like the one husband brought home this morning, could feed a family of four, it is time for bakeries to rethink portion control.
I wonder if he put this pastry on the four easy payment plan or did he charge it?
I think if I did consume this monster pastry I would double my weight. So I ate a quarter and wrapped the rest up. A partially eaten cherry pastry, even wrapped in pink Saran Wrap like mine is (someone bought this by mistake) still looks gross.
I am sick of oversized pastries, muffins, hamburgers and the like. Someone somewhere is trying to stuff us silly and it smacks of a conspiracy.
Maybe the terrorists are planning to feed us to death…
The cherry pastry is as big as a dinner plate. It weighs about a half a pound. In the center is a half pint of cherries and there must be at least 500 calories worth of glaze drizzled over the top.
This pastry is over the top.
If Americans wonder why they are fat, all they have to do is look at how the sizes of simple items, from muffin to hamburger have burgeoned over the past 20 years.
Who can stay thin when it takes two hands to lift a hamburger or a muffin?
A bakery croissant in the US is about 3 times larger than the flaky treats served in Paris. Twelve ounces of beer isn’t enough anymore, they are jamming in 16 ounces in numerous bottles, never mind the 40 ounce monsters that are sold as single servings.
If you order a Coca Cola in Italy, chances are you will get a seven ounce bottle, exactly like the ones people bought here in the 50s.
The best Coca Cola I ever had was in Italy, and I think the size had a lot to do with it. Speaking of Italy, they use small juice glasses or small stemmed glasses to serve their wine, while here we buy humongous balloon glasses that will hold a half bottle of wine, then get schnockered and have the audacity to say: I only had two glasses of wine.
Gluttony thy name is American food and beverage portions. Even our coffee cups are big as spittoons for crissakes.
When ONE pastry, like the one husband brought home this morning, could feed a family of four, it is time for bakeries to rethink portion control.
I wonder if he put this pastry on the four easy payment plan or did he charge it?
I think if I did consume this monster pastry I would double my weight. So I ate a quarter and wrapped the rest up. A partially eaten cherry pastry, even wrapped in pink Saran Wrap like mine is (someone bought this by mistake) still looks gross.
I am sick of oversized pastries, muffins, hamburgers and the like. Someone somewhere is trying to stuff us silly and it smacks of a conspiracy.
Maybe the terrorists are planning to feed us to death…
posted by mary bishop | 9:57 AM
15 Comments:
Dear Maryby,, it is the American way tho, to quote a friend of mine, "Bigger, Better, Faster, More". Yep, thats us. We want it, we want it big and we want it fast and more of it. I was amazed when we went to Quiznos the other day. One of their regular size sammiches has like an entire loaf of bread and very little meat. My neice ate the whole thing. I couldnt believe and shes a skinny little thing but man. And its not like we havent been warned against all the sugar and carbs but people still eat the heck out of em and wonder why they cant lose weight.
What is wrong with me? I cant spell your name/handle right to save my life. Sorry again, Marby
:-D
And yet when we buy food, all of the suggested serving sizes on the nutritional information bit are ridiculously small--nobody eats 1/3rd of a cup of icecream, even in Europe.
And in regards to ginormous coffee cups,
I once got my dad a huge novelty coffee cup for fathers' day. I couldn't even wrap both my hands around it. You're supposed to use it to hold pencils and things, but yes, my dad used it for coffee.
I love cherries and cherry-related pastries but that is too big.
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My rule of thumb has always been: if you can throw your food/beverage at someone and knock them unconscious, it's time to cut back. Damn.
But cherry pastry...yum.
Dashababy..I got a grinder recently that was as long as my femur. Who can eat all that?
PS - just think of me as a regular plain old Mary.
CB - husband was once on a measured diet, half cup of this and third cup of that and it looked ridiculous on a plate...
Summer - giant bagel hahaha...speaking of bagels, my bagel shop gives you an ice-cream scoop of cream cheese and I have to throw 60 percent of it away...
Spurious and Samantha..I adore cherry pastries too. But when you need help lifting one up it can be a turn off...
Bigger is not always better. A friend of mine is marrying a guy from France. He eats what he wants, when he wants, and typically all day long. The difference: small little portions. He gets hungry quicker, but fills up on less. Hes not overweight at all.
Here, were all about:
3 meals a day, food pyramid. How do you get all the food on the food pyramid into 3 meals? You dont. Fast food, HA! very few healthy choices, even then their dressings are the fattiest creation. Grease, loads of salt, dripping with sugar...just YUCK.
Please keep in mind I havent finished my oversized coffee yet :-)
I am totally in favour of a movement towards "bigger is not necessarily better". I have been saying that for years, trying to convince a skeptical female population.
Say it with me, girls: "Bigger is not necessarily better".
In desserts. Or, you know, anything.
It's just like the people who say "I only had a hamburger all day...." yes, yes, you did. But that hamburger contains enough meat to cover two days worth of protein, four days worth of fat, and the roll is bigger than your head.
Granted, I'm guilty of the "I only"s - but mine are usually "I only had a cup of yogurt" or "I only had an apple and slice of cheese."
Some of us... few of us... and I'm DEFINITELY not included in the us.. have the metabolism to process such quantities. Most of us do not. And our society's not making it any easier to develop good eating habits - which are as much limited by portion control as they involve eating bad for you food moderately - in ANYONE, children or adults. How depressing.
It is a a sad state. My family and I recently went into a Nathons and had a small fish dinner and the 3 of us split it. That was enough for us. Then we looked around and everybody had their own meals, even the kids. I mean-YIKES-that's why there is such a problem in the US.
lawbrat - nothing wrong with oversized coffee cups...nothing whatsoever...(I love a huge mug of coffee!)
nilbo..what you allude to is also true - about time we all thought of quality over quantity!
echrai...had a hamburger in Italy at a small bistro type place. The roll was McDonald's size only delicious, a thin meat patty cooked to perfection and then a million different vegetables sauteed on the top. Much more of the veggie than the meat in this burger.
pg -We recently each got a fish dinner at a local fish and chip joint and had a mound of fries left over...I did eat the fish but it was so good and not hugely battered...but I've seen these huge meals set before children..what is that saying to children? Eat till you blow up?
If it's yummy, bigger is ALWAYS better...but that's just my humble.
Sorry, Nilbo (tee hee)
Re: Cherry pastry? You've made me hungry. I'm going to the bakery. Maybe the baker was just lazy and felt like making one BIG one instead of many smaller ones.
I agree about US portions. I think McD's lost the supersize b/c of the movie "Supersize Me" and the bad press...
So very true!
I came over from susie's and have to tell you that your previous post just killed me! Hope you find a replacement tree soon.
LB - or maybe he just dropped a 16 oz. can of cherries onto pizza dough...!
sierrabella..welcome! Any friend of susie's is a friend of mine...
glad you enjoyed the post, but truthfully, I've been house hunting and have no time to write so nothing I've written lately sounds good to me...
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