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• 1990-06-13
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• Female
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• MD, USA
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• 2003-08-03
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• DES's hikari
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• Tory (Dori, Tostito)

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• A lot, not that they matter. Anime Club President/Fuhrer till the end of this year.
Anime Fan Since
• (age 4) Tonari No Totoro
Favorite Anime
• Gravitation, Weiss Kreuz, Hagaren (FMA), Kino No Tabi, .hack, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
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• To go on an insane shopping spree in Tokyo sometime soon. Gosurori...
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• Drooling. Over many things.
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• I make a mean ramen, mm!

myOtaku.com: shiroikarasu

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

A Most Ingenius Paradox
Y'know what's weird about America? We want our people super-skinny, like <100 or you're FAT, HAHA FATTY... But then the portions in restaurants are HUUUUGE! Even healthy food comes about 3 times bigger than you need it. The only places where I think the portions are good are Temari Cafe, which is an authentic Japanese cafe near us, and Benjarong, which is a Thai restaurant. Benjarong is kinda fancy so it's somewhere you'd take a group of people, so you can each get something different and then share, and it turns out to be the right amount. Even Niwa No Hana, another Japanese place nearby, gives a lot of food. Most restaurants I can't eat more then about 2/3 of what I'm given, and even that is pushing it sometimes, like at Red Lobster or Cheesecake Factory.
In Japan portions are much smaller. They have Starbucks there, and Yuki says the "tall" size (they call it small, I assume) is maybe half to two-thirds of the tall here. Burgers are usually smaller too. It's funny, when I order ramen at Temari, I get a big whopping bowl of it, but I can still finish it because it's not TOO big. It's the perfect size for a large meal like dinner or late lunch. That and it's mostly liquid and has a variety of things in it--naruto, bean sprouts, egg, pork cutlet, seaweed flakes, etc.
I ran across a copy of the food pyramid today, and thought that was unusual as well. The stuff it tells you to eat is all healthy, to be sure, and I'm sure the proportions are right, but 6-8 servings of carbs? That's the equivalent of 6-8 pieces of bread in one day, one top of all the other food groups. 3-4 sandwiches? Wtf? Who eats that much, aside from people with professional trainers? Good lord. I would gain weight if I ate according to that...
So, in summation, American portions are too big!! It's tempting to order things off the kids menus just so don't get overloaded with food. I eat prudent amounts of food at each meal unless it's something really special, like on Yuki's birthday when I made myself sick eating so much rich food at that steakhouse... But that was not a regular occurrence! Anyways. Aside from American foods being generally unhealthy, which I think is debatable, there is too much.

I'm sad because I gained 6 lbs after school let out. T_T And I wanted to lose weight this summer...
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