Saturday, October 22, 2005

On the subject of large food

The number of times I've wandered around all the local caffs and snack places looking for a LITTLE snack. a samll strong delicious coffee and a litle pastry perhaps. Or maybe a nice little roll, lightly filled with something tasty and a litle bit of salady stuff. Or maybe even a small plateful of something warm and scrummy.
You must be joking.
The choices sem to an enormous sticky heap of something sweet and a medium sized bucket of coffee topped with half an acre of froth, or a gigantic (tooth cracking) baguette overflowing with piles of meat or prawns and with mounds of lettuce and stuff bulging out in every direction. Or a huge oval plate with a heap of pasta or rice and a vast mountain of coleslaw overloading it.
Even sandwiches (the english kind, two slices of bread filled with stuff) come bursting at the seams with runny bits and crispy bits and chewy bits.
the best small thing you can get it seems is a toasty. But they are a bit hard to eat on the run as it were and even they tend to bulge more and more these days. And to dribble of course.
oh and cornish pasties are getting bigger and bigger...first the filling is huge and then to make the whole thing even more overwhelming, they put a two inch crust all the way round so it takes you half an hour to fight your way into the filling. by which time I'm stuffed!
I say nothing about the prices.
I may be (am) a bit fat but I am only a litle oldish person. I don't need much building up and I may need to hurry along a bit after eating. time the fast fresh food companies took pity on the hungry but not starving...umm..minority?

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