Had dinner and drinks (and drinks and drinks) with godfather, Bob, last night at the ‘Bayside’, a shack of a restaurant with an $11.95 Monday night sirloin steak special. It is a very homey, local place with a clientele consisting mostly of large guys with construction boots, baseball caps, and moustaches.
I had begun to forget just how much food is served in American restaurants. When I first moved to Japan, I thought the country was conspiring to slowly starve me by serving dinky sized portions (Obviously I haven’t wasted away, and I have grown to appreciate the smaller meals). Now by comparison, American portions seem obnoxiously monstrous.
American’s weight problem was once blamed on too much fat in the diet, then too much carbs. I have a brilliant idea: it’s too much food. (Before you go calling the US a country of fatties, other countries’ obesity rates don’t trail the US by much).
The “salad bar” in front of video games at the Bayside. An ad for Genesee beer, referred to as ‘piss water’ by some Canadians, hangs overhead.
P.S. I’ll be back in Tokyo next week.
Scotch and sirloin
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