Well, as I’ve said before in other threads, I am a Head Ban.ger (redated) at heart, so I will say that the 80’s for me and my wife had the best music…
I like about any rock from the late 70’s till now, from Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne, Dio, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Manowar, to Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn, to Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch, Slipknot, Rob Zombie, Amy Lee (Evanescence), Pantera and many many more…
Also like the Hair Bands (Bon Jovi, Guns & Roses, Warrent, Poison, Def Leppard, Motley Crüe, Ratt etc etc)… Most anything Rock and Heavy Metalish…
I also like some George Strait, George Jones, Garth Brooks and the like…
Basically, I like a lot of different music, but my favorite is Metal…
When Def Leppard came out, I wasn’t a fan. I’m a big fan now. Same goes for the Scorpions. Another 70s/80s band I’ve always liked is Crack the Sky. Best band name ever, and they still play great music. They’re a Pittsburgh band that have always had a big following in Baltimore.
The choice isn’t people wanting a double hamburger or a 20zoz drink. Just eating at a fast-food restaurant is nowhere near as healthy as eating a smart meal at home. You need to eat a lot more calories to get full on a meal from McDonalds or from eating a Salad and 10oz steak at home. The higher protein from the steak and higher fiber from a salad will fill you up better and with half the calories from most fast-food meals. No matter what type of marketing that you seem to think influences - it’s still YOUR choice. I chose NOT to eat that ■■■■. And I limited going to fast-food restaurants on my kids growing up. Myself, wife and 3 kids (all adults) are NOT overweight and never have been. Choose wisely.
Of course, even the most cunning, conniving, and charismatic marketing campaigns of late can’t get through to all people. Especially through my thick head!
A former counselee of mine is now an adult, and she frequently posts pics of herself, her husband, and their 13 year old son. She and hubby now weigh at least double what their weight was when I knew them as HS students, and their son is well on his way to being obese.
She also frequently posts pics of the HUGE ice cream sundaes that they are about to consume. She and hubby are both well-educated professionals, and they should know better than to continue to eat an incredibly high-calorie diet, but there seems to be no end to their gluttony.
Her husband is so obese that I fear she is going to be a widow at a relatively young age.
I would just like to know by what mechanism (public demand or corporate edict) did fast food (and other restaurant) portions, such as the sundaes you mentioned, got so dang huge.
Even a local diner that I could walk to, when I ordered spaghetti with a side of sausage or meatballs, it came on an oval plate approximately 14 x 9 inches. It was also piled so high I had enough left over for the next three days!
I have one of those friends. And he actually denies he’s obese. He really and truly considers himself a little overweight and can lose it all in one summer. He’s over 60, 5’10 and weighs well over 350lbs. Based on his muscle mass (or lack thereof) his ideal weight should be about 170.He’s not just obese he’s morbidly obese. If you can’t be true to yourself you’ll NEVER improve. He’s like someone else who’s famous who insists he’s 6’3 and only weighs 215lbs and is in great physical health. If he weighs an oz under 300, I’d be extremely surprised. And somehow he’s shorter when standing next to people who are only 6’.
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In Europe, even the soda cans are much smaller than they are in the US. I’m not a big fan of sodas, so on a hot day in Rome, it’s nice to be able to find small cans of cold soda, rather than large ones.
We get carry out every Friday for dinner. We like the huge portions because it means we can get another two, three, or even four meals out of them. One restaurant charges me $28 for a full rack of ribs, two sides, and a cup of soup. A little over 9 bucks a meal seems like a bargain.
Everything but the food is the major expense. I’ve seen restaurants with a small and large portion. The cost difference is small. Why would they continue to offer the small portion when customers can get at least two meals out of the full size?
Back years ago, I had a customer that drove something like a late 80’s Suzuki Samurai, he and his better half had to weight in the mid to upper 400#'s EACH, and we never saw them without the other… I was 5’10"and 275 at the time (175 now) and he made me look small, well they always came in together for the lifetime alignment and other services, He always complained about it pulling, and we always fault with it, I finally asked was it pulling on the way in, he said no, only when he drove to and from work, so I asked was he in it mostly by himself, he said yes, I just flat out asked, does it ever pull when y’all ride together? He said no, so I just asked him to get in the vehicle while we did the alignment, and explained that it would still pull with both of them in the vehicle, but very little with just him in it (only so much adjustment on the little Suzuki)… Next visit he said it was much better now…
I never felt so sorry for a vehicle before, that thing squatted so bad when they got in it…
When I was a kid, there was a guy in my town who drove a '57 Plymouth, and he was so fat that he couldn’t fit behind the steering wheel. So, he–somehow–sat sideways, with his back to the driver’s door. Exactly how he worked the pedals is/was a mystery to me.
Other kids had told me about this guy, and I doubted their stories… until the day when I finally saw him for myself. Of course, there was the very serious issue of his inability to see anything on the car’s far left side, but–somehow–he was allowed to continue driving.
I worked with a man that was about 6’4” and over 300#. One of our coworkers lived in the same neighborhood and told us a story. The big guy got married. He and his wife went to a furniture store in the same neighborhood and bought their wedding bed. Shortly after getting it home, they broke the slats holding the mattress up. The store replaced the slats. This happened a couple more times. The last time the salesman went to their house to troubleshoot the damage. As soon as he walked in he saw how big my friend and his wife were and knew those 1x4 slats were the problem. He went to the hardware store, bought 2x4s and put those in instead. Problem solved.
There was a significantly overweight teacher in high school that managed to wedge himself into a Triumph TR6. It developed a permanent lean to the driver’s side. How he got into that small car was surprising to see. I saw him riding a small motorcycle once and it was completely bottomed out and the tire was under severe stress as well.
