dialectics of that being true and i agree with it, but also eating out is rare enough i want to go full hog and get my money's worth
one of the problems is those kids menus are also more reasonably priced, which is why they won't sell them to adults. food should just be cheaper and the staff better compensated. this can be accomplished with a tiny strucural adjustment
Kids caloric needs are not that different from adults. Once they're around five years old, children ought to be eating "adult-sized" meals. By which I mean, the above kids meals. Which are actually (slightly more than) adult-sized.
children also ought to be eating the same foods as adults, to bring it back full circle. the whole "kids food" is made up marketing pablum that's mostly worse for kid's development biologically and psychologically. the least picky kids i ever met were the weird home-school kids that literally never got the chance to eat anything "for kids" just normal food. they were fucked up socially beyond belief tho lol
I think it's inane to go "this is an adult portion" by way of calories here. This is not an adult meal, this is an indulgence. You treat yourself with those occasionally and then let them be 3 times the calories of that, it's occasional.
Hot take incoming!
The "Kids Menu" at most American restaurants is usually the portion size an adult should be eating. Or more!
For example, that meal in the stupid picture above is the Olive Garden Kids Pizza meal. Here's the calorie breakdown:
That's 750 kcal! That's about a third of what an active adult male should be eating daily.
dialectics of that being true and i agree with it, but also eating out is rare enough i want to go full hog and get my money's worth
one of the problems is those kids menus are also more reasonably priced, which is why they won't sell them to adults. food should just be cheaper and the staff better compensated. this can be accomplished with a tiny strucural adjustment
Bonus hot take!
Kids caloric needs are not that different from adults. Once they're around five years old, children ought to be eating "adult-sized" meals. By which I mean, the above kids meals. Which are actually (slightly more than) adult-sized.
Anglo food culture is so fucked up. I hate it.
children also ought to be eating the same foods as adults, to bring it back full circle. the whole "kids food" is made up marketing pablum that's mostly worse for kid's development biologically and psychologically. the least picky kids i ever met were the weird home-school kids that literally never got the chance to eat anything "for kids" just normal food. they were fucked up socially beyond belief tho lol
We are on the same page on every point you brought up, love. The whole system is forked up, top to bottom.
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I think it's inane to go "this is an adult portion" by way of calories here. This is not an adult meal, this is an indulgence. You treat yourself with those occasionally and then let them be 3 times the calories of that, it's occasional.