Note to vacationing non-Americans: while it’s true that America doesn’t always have the best food culture, the food in our restaurants is really not representative of what most of us eat at home. The portions at Cheesecake Factory or IHOP are meant to be indulgent, not just “what Americans are used to.”
If you eat at a regular American household, during a regular meal where they’re not going out of their way to impress guests, you probably will not be served twelve pounds of chocolate-covered cream cheese. Please bear this in mind before writing yet another “omg I can’t believe American food” post.
Also, most American restaurant portions are 100% intended as two meals’ worth of food. Some of my older Irish relatives still struggle with the idea that it’s not just not rude to eat half your meal and take the rest home, it’s expected. (Apparently this is somewhat of an American custom.)
Until you’re hitting the “fancy restaurant” tier (the kind of place you go for a celebration or an anniversary date), a dinner out should generally also be lunch for the next day. Leftovers are very much the norm.
From the little time I’ve spent in Canada, this seems to be the case up there as well.
the portions in family restaurants (as opposed to haute cuisine types) are designed so that no one goes away hungry.
volume IS very much a part of the american hospitality tradition, and Nobody Leaves Hungry is important. but you have to recognize that it’s not how we cook for ourselves, it’s how we welcome guests and strengthen community ties.
so in order to give you a celebratory experience and make you feel welcomed, family restaurants make the portions big enough that even if you’re a teenage boy celebrating a hard win on the basketball court, you’re still going to be comfortably full when you leave.
of course, that means that for your average person with a sit-down job, who ate a decent lunch that day, it’s twice as much as they want or more. that’s ok. as mentioned above, taking home leftovers is absolutely encouraged. that, too, is part of american hospitality tradition; it’s meant to invoke fond memories of grandma loading you down with covered dishes so you can have hearty celebration food all week. pot luck church basement get-togethers where the whole town makes sure everybody has enough. that sort of thing. it’s about sharing. it’s about celebrating Plenty.
it’s not about pigging out until you get huge. treating it that way is pretty disrespectful of our culture. and you know, contrary to what the world thinks, we do have one.
it’s like 4 am and I’m tired as hell but if ur a white person who only goes by Japanese names or other obviously Not White names all for the sake of “protecting your privacy” or some shit that’s fucking stupid you have plenty of whitey names to choose from to be your fake name so shut the fuck up kyle ur just stupid and racist
whities are encouraged to rb if any of ur white friends pull this kinda shit it’s not like. Cool lmao
Damn okay y’all whities don’t realize how important these names are saying it’s just a name and who cares Okay. I’m sorry but names of color are so often ridiculed by white people and are made fun of with them joking about the pronunciation or the spelling and such. POC have to go by white names just to be accepted by y’all and to not have their birth names (or just their names related to their culture if they’re trans or sm) to not be mocked!
My manager and a lot of the people at my workplace are Korean and she was telling me how it was annoying for people to make fun of her name so she and all my other Korean co-workers go by Americanized names that she’s thinking of LEGALLY CHANGING.
I only know one of their actual names and his is Suk-jun but because of whities being assholes he goes by Brandon, fucking Brandon!!!
So yeah it’s not just a name shut up with that shit! It’s a part of our culture that your culture likes to mock and ridicule so what gives you the right to use our names just because you think they’re “pretty” or “they sound cool”.
Alex Lives Here 