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Default Serving Sizes (Was: Peculiar size)

Blinky the Shark said...

> Andy wrote:
>
>> 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?

>
> Finally made it to Andersen's a couple years ago on a little
> long-weekend outing to the SLO area. Mmmmmm...pea soup with all those
> fixings!



Blinky

I'll bet you were swimming in it!

Andy