The random and trivial titbits on Mr Fixmanius’ desk.

What did you have first in mind after reading the title, Mate?

Yesterday I went to Planet Hollywood Jakarta for iftar (I was already readied for the prices, which were indeed expensive!).
After taking a good careful look at the menu, I decided to order a
cheese burger and a salmon burger. I was thinking that by ordering
those two dishes, I could exactly fill my empty stomach.

I’ve
heard some people saying the portions of the food in that restaurant is
what they called "American standard". But my hungry mind said, let’s
challenge it! What makes these Americans eat more than I do. If they
can, so can I (I now realise this is stupid).

Anyway,
later the waiter came with my burgers, and it could be clearly seen
that the size of them was roughly, let’s say, 2.5 times bigger than the
original size of the ones in McDonald’s (or should I say Indonesian McDonald’s).
While I was finishing my first burger (the salmon one), I told one of
the waiters (might be the manager),"the size is (friggin) enormous!"
"Well, that’s American Standard," he replied. Oh, ok, it really is that
simple. Even though I managed to finish that burger, I had to go home
with an "overfilled" stomach. In fact, I got my ’second’ burger taken home (for suhoor).

That experience has brought me to a conclusion that everything that’s been "Americanised" would have its size mutated to large. I remember a story of a young Vietnamese American woman who was medium-sized by American Standards, but when she walked through the doors of her local Vietnamese store, she ballooned to an extra-large and started to feel less beautiful and less Asian.

Their food portions are just ridiculously large and could feed an African family for a month!

No offence to you Yanks, but now I fully understand how the stereotype that "American girls are fat" came up. From now on, I have a new synonym: overly done/excessive = Americanised. Ha-ha..

Oops, I think I’m gonna have myself "erased" from existence by The CIA tonight..

(fixy7)

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