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Sunday, March 23, 2003
How Big Is Your Mouth?
Lotsa people claim to have big mouths. Of course they'll talk the talk, but can they really stuff their talk? Today, after church for lunch at the Golden Arches (if you don't know what that is, well, let me throw this out.. in the movie "Coming to America" with Eddie Murphy - a heh heh heh - and Arsenio Hall - woo! woo! woo! - this guy has a restaurant chain called McDowell's, which he claims isn't a knock-off because their logo only has one arch), a couple of girls showed off their pie-holes. Both Devina and AmyLee were able to eat a Filet-O-Fish (2 for $2.22, baby!) in a mere 4 bites. That's a decent feat, especially while still maintaining a sense of composure.
At work, I'm known to have one of the biggest appetites. I'm also a pretty quick eater, but it's not merely a matter of bigger bites. I actually chew significantly less than your average meal consumer. By the 3rd bite or so, my tongue has already begun the process of smushing the food towards my throat. I liken it to a conveyor belt on an assembly line. After the food enters, it's on a one-way street to Mr. Stomach for some good acidic churning.
Random thoughts on TV dinners:
1) They are quite unhealthy being unusually high in sodium (as a preservative).
2) Eating just one TV dinner is never enough to fill any guy (the servings are just way too small)
3) For the unfortunate folks out there without a microwave (that's quite rare these days), it actually takes 40 or so minutes to heat up a TV dinner in the conventional oven. In that time, you might as well cook up something real..hehe.
In response to #2 above, I recently discovered Swanson's Hungryman XXL dinners (note the "XXL" designation). A regular Hungryman dinner has a double portion of the main entree (i.e. salisbury steak, mmm). The XXL dinner, however, doubles that to give you FOUR TIMES the amount of main entree as a regular TV dinner. Amazing! But still, not exactly enough food to be filling for some of us. =)
9:55 PM Albert
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