Once a week, Prad and I go out to dinner to Il Fornaio, our favorite Italian eatery in town. Last time, we went with the children. Everybody was hungry, and we forgot our habit of splitting every order in half. We ended dinner with most of our plates still half full. And a doggy bag to take the stuff home. America is the only country I know, with doggy bags. One could say, it is a great way to avoid food being thrown away. I look at it differently, as another manifestation of the super size phenomenon. I can’t count the number of times when our doggy bags’ remnants linger in the fridge, until we end up throwing them away.
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I am totally with you re: splitting plates policy – partly for volume of food, partly for cost, and partly because guess what — noone likes or eats the left overs…EVER!!
there is a breakfast place in town – the egg dishes are huge – 4 eggs on a plate plus, hash browns, plus, plus plus
it’s heaping
and noone eats it all
so they throw so much food away
it really tugs at my sensibilities
aahhhhhhhhhhhhchooooooooooooooooooooooo
Mother Earth
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I actually find this doggy bag concept a great idea to address the super size thing. I’m sometimes so frustrated in France when you get such a small amount of food for a ridiculous (high) price. At least here you have the quantity _and_ the option to not eat all, but the rest later. Wasting the doggy bag in the fridge is for me a much different issue. Maybe another “American” one, with the super-sized refrigerators, but a different one that everyone can handle with more relevant and appropriate shopping habits.
So let’s not confuse and mix the issues here.
While I am at it, the other interesting concept here is that they really don’t make desert mandatory. So you can really have a one-course meal if you want, you won’t be considered as a bad customer. Like in other European countries…
Jean.
I share my doggy bag with the “real thing” – my dog.
That takes care of any guilty feelings I would have about throwing away the food.
Angelika