jmcquown wrote:
>
> 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

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).