Because Reasons

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.

Reblogging because I honestly never thought about it but yeah, this lines up.

I really like this little doodle of @werekaiju's sona Zeno as a hellhound being protective of his tiny demon Zee friend XD

esp with Zee being just OwO

5 year anniversary of the miette post \o/

Finished Full Body Commission Work for @werekaiju

me and @werekaiju were talking about our mutual love of Jason Voorhees

I think I'd scare him off by being too into it u-u

These I drew last year about Mewtwo Strikes Back,and now I made an English version.

Text source:Fate Grand Order——Wonderland（Bond Level 10 of Nursery Rhyme.）

https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Wonderland

(.....But there are still some lines that I wrote myself, so they are still machine translated💦）

哦不中文版的放不下了……国人要是想看去罐装迷微博搜童谣就行……

happy old gnoll

Pipe expanding machine

Wowww

ok I swear this is my last lovecore demon tiger I need to get to work on my actual for other people things

Fuck you *demonizes our fursonas* @werekaiju

more doodles as I get the hang of drawing again

(I forgot about this doodle where I tried drawing the stripes from another angle. I like it!)

sketches of the 10th doctor as a little weasel

@lab-gr0wn-lambs

Check you privilege every day

Reminds me of this:

remember that tumblr went scorched earth on my friend mercury's blog for posting public information that people on staff engage in transmisogynistic media. remember tumblr refuses to address the issues of trans tags being banned yet terfs and neo-nazis blogs and tags remain intact. remember how tumblr banned black bloggers during blm protests deeming them russian psy-ops. and now tumblr recently banned a trans woman for posting transition photos deeming them sexual content.

this isnt a one time oopsie. repeated behavior has made tumblr a hostile place for marginalized bloggers. how much more will we take?

Dear, sweet, Littlefoot, do you remember the way to the Great Valley?  I guess so. But why do I have to know if you’re going to be with me? I’ll be with you. Even if you can’t see me. What do you mean I can’t see you? I can always see you.

The Land Before Time(1988) dir. Don Bluth

#Children’s media used to be about making you feel the entire depth and breadth of the human emotional spectrum#All while your 7 y/o brain struggled to make sense of if all. But it was like an emotional vaccine#Comprehending loss at that age didn’t make it any easier to bear with age. But atleast it was familiar (conserving these tags by @jonairadreaming because yes)

me having delusions of grandeur “ i could survive a black hole”