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    5112 days ago

    During many Olympics, Usain Bolt sustained himself on nothing but 100 Chicken McNuggets a day, because they have a really optimal Carb to Protein ratio and are very consistent (whereas strange new food in foreign countries might be risky).

    So, you’re just eating like one of the world’s best athletes.

  • @[email protected]
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    4312 days ago

    ‘Serving sizes’ are absolute nonsense. They are always wildly out of step with reality. Only reason they put it on there is so manufacturers can claim “our product isn’t bad, it only contains X calories per serving”.

    Meanwhile, they put serving sizes fit for ants on packages that clearly aren’t meant to be shared and don’t reflect reasonable consumption. For example, a serving size of three jelly beans is silly by any stretch of the imagination. So is putting ‘serving sizes’ on a soda can. And a sleeve of Oreos? One cookie is a serving. Yeah, we all know that’s not how you eat Oreos…

    • @[email protected]
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      1812 days ago

      I work in a sandwich place that sells fairly large chocolate chip cookies. The bags we put them in are labeled as containing 4 servings. Buncha nonsense.

      • @[email protected]
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        911 days ago

        Absolutely insane. Sure, large cookie, but I’ve never seen anyone go “okay I will slice up this cookie and eat only a fourth” also that’s how your make a cookie go stale faster! These manufacturers are cruel.

        • Apathy Tree
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          811 days ago

          but I’ve never seen anyone go “okay I will slice up this cookie and eat only a fourth”

          I have, but only with thc edibles…

          • @[email protected]
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            311 days ago

            Okay, yes, that’s fair. My sibling cuts their gummies into fourths even.

            But a completely unadultered cookie?? Jam that entire thing into my mouth!

            • Apathy Tree
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              311 days ago

              Hell yeah, my highschool used to have super soft undercooked cookies the size of a plate. They came on a paper plate wrapped in plastic (made in house).

              They didn’t bother trying to pretend that was more than one serving. Nobody did :)

    • Flying Squid
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      611 days ago

      A can of soup is often divided into two serving sizes.

      Who eats half a can of soup?

      • Lord Wiggle
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        110 days ago

        Who eats canned soup in the first place. Fresh ingredients is cheaper, healthier and tastier.

        • TheRealKuni
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          510 days ago

          I have no idea how to make clam chowder for cheaper than a can of clam chowder.

          • Lord Wiggle
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            210 days ago

            Ah. I don’t eat meat. I think that’s why my soups are so cheap to make. I mostly use beans to replace meat and beans are really cheap.

            • TheRealKuni
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              210 days ago

              Makes sense. I also almost never want to waste time cutting veggies and stirring in pasta and whatnot when I want soup. Personally I almost exclusively eat soup when I’m not feeling well. 😅

              • Lord Wiggle
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                210 days ago

                A bag of pre-cut veggies, pre-peeled potatoes, add some beans, bake 5min with some herbs and throw in a blender with some water. Throw the blended stuff in a pan, boil with some cream and add some pasta. Super tasty soup is ready in 10 to 12 min. Enough soup for 4 days. But I don’t mind cutting some veggies, they only need some rough cutting as they go into the blender anyway. Just use easy to cut veggies. Broccoli or cauliflower for example, or courgettes like I used yesterday. Soup for 4 to 5 days costs roughly 5 to 7 euros. Add a euro for home made bread made with a bread baking machine and you have a proper meal. Just throw some baking mix and water in it and 3h later you have fresh warm bread. Honestly, making your own soup in 12min for 4 days is roughly 6min more effort then canned soup. No added sugar, conservatives and too much salt. Much better taste. Especially when you add some blue cheese.

                • TheRealKuni
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                  310 days ago

                  Climb out of blanket cocoon. Pry open can. Empty into bowl. Fill can with water. Empty into bowl. Put in microwave for three minutes. Stir. Microwave for two minutes. Go back to huddling under blankets.

                  (Like I said, I mostly eat soup when I’m sick. Don’t care much about taste or quantity in that case.)

                  You’re not wrong in any way though.

        • Flying Squid
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          210 days ago

          People with severe smell sensitivity who can’t cook because of it.

          Which would be me.

        • @[email protected]
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          A good broth can take a long time to develop if you’re trying to do it well. And sometimes I’m sick and it’s all I can keep down.

        • @Good_morning
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          110 days ago

          Just depends, I never crave canned soup, but if I’m at the grocery store and realize I didn’t plan anything for lunch at work, I’ll grab a some. Easy & incredibly cheap.

          • Lord Wiggle
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            110 days ago

            Here in The Netherlands the pre-made meals are getting worse and worse. Due to the price wars by the grocery stores (maaaaany stores per capita) the producers won’t get much money for their product, so they are cutting corners. It’s an inflation thing. Either things get more expensive, packaging gets smaller for the same price or they take out pricy ingredients. Over here canned soup isn’t cheap, it lacks nutrition and a 2 portion can isn’t enough to fill 1 person’s stomach.

            • @Good_morning
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              I’d say cheap is the only thing going for it over here, nutrition is questionable, so much sodium. Portion, well I’m not a small person, but the Campbell’s soup cans will fill me up if I’m not starving. But that’s a big can.

              • Lord Wiggle
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                19 days ago

                Often they add sugar too, as a preservative. Sugar in your soup. Noo thank youuu

    • @[email protected]
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      511 days ago

      Oreos are 3 cookies to a serving.

      Frequently servings are fairly close to 1 ounce. Oreos are a little over an ounce for 3 cookies at 34 grams.

      This isn’t necessarily a serving suggestion. They’d actually very much like it if you ate an entire sleeve in a sitting, 3 times a day.

      It’s only there so you can calculate with excruciating detail exactly how many grams of sugar you just swallowed when you stuffed the middle of 4 cookies together.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 days ago

      I knew a guy in the army who would eat a gigantic bowl of oreos (usually 2/3rds of a regular package) and watch saturday morning cartoons. he said it helped him pass MREs.

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      711 days ago

      Hilarious, but if they actually assumed that then they would allow you to put different toppings on each half of the sub.

  • @[email protected]
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    1111 days ago

    They don’t call them “Serving Suggestions” because they’re mandatory, they call them that because they’re a challenge.

  • Flying Squid
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    911 days ago

    I liked Chicken McNuggets when I ate meat, and then one day I learned that they have four pre-stamped shapes and something about that grossed me out so I never ordered them again.

  • Lord Wiggle
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    910 days ago

    That’s why the US is so obese. I don’t eat junk food. I liked the nuggets when I still ate meat and smoked weed in high school. Even with the munchies I couldn’t even eat 10. And I live in The Netherlands so they are much less unhealthy (less fat, less sugar, better quality meat) then in the US.

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    612 days ago

    It’s probably assuming that you’re also getting fries, a drink and an ice cream cone each or something. That simply cannot be enough.

  • @[email protected]
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    611 days ago

    Meanwhile I’ve always been the one that takes the smallest possible meal at McDonald’s, and would think that 5 nuggets with fries and drinks is just enough. In fact I hate going to restaurants in general because portions are always much too big for me. I can’t usually take doggy bags, and I feel like I’m wasting most of what I’m served. I can’t recall even finishing a plate in a (real) restaurant; there’s always too much. I’m always like “oh it was really tasty but I can’t eat much more!”

    • @[email protected]
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      411 days ago

      I’m a small person, but I’m definitely still hungry after 5 nuggets and some fries at McDonald’s. The food isn’t particularly filling like at all. Don’t get me wrong, I still get a single meal instead of multiple, but that doesn’t mean I’m not still hungry.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 days ago

      Me too! I so so so wish more places offered half portions. There are maybe two restaurants near me that offer half portions on every menu item and it’s amazing. It is just the right amount and I really don’t mind paying the 50%+$1 price or whatever.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 days ago

    Lol when the 50 piece first came out. I was just eating those on my own and the boys would buy their own 50 piece. Worked great for the munchies and being buzzed.

    Now I can’t even do 10 nuggies. Age, man…