Well, Americans are addicted to convenience (I missed the convenience of certain things here while I was in other countries more than anything else). The problem is that convenience foods are mostly not the most healthy meals. Still, the capitalist rule remains: if there wasn't a market for it, it wouldn't exist :o) Afterall, no one is forcing me to eat lunch at Wendy's but I do about once a week because it is less than a mile from my work. :o)


>I don't know if you're defending yourselves or admit it. I have noticed a proliferation of US style eateries: TGI Friday for e.g., selling, where we used to have portions, dirty big HELPINGS. Whenever a news prog focuses on obesity, there's the fat guy stuffing a burger in his cake hole.
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>We never used to have take-away and home-delivery pizza joints all over the place, drive-thus are becoming common.
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>OK I'll blame the people of Hamburg for developing a budget mince of beef, and the Italians for inventing pizza :-)
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>>Yeh sure, blame the Americans and the American products! :o) Wait a minute, Subway is not fattening! :o)
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>>>>>>>Now there's the deli section (where they probably keep the abbreviated delicatessen), where they'll slice it for you in any amount you want, but it just takes too long to wait, and the sliced stuff doesn't hold too well in the fridge (either gets too dry or develops the same sticky film all over).
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>>>>>>The store where I shop has a kiosk at the entry where you can order what you want from the deli and they'll get it ready while you shop.
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>>>>>>This store also uses ziploc-type plastic bags. I find the deli meat and cheese keeps quite well. I buy half a pound of Dietz & Watson London Broil roast beef each week for my lunches; I get four sandwiches out of that. (Yeah, I know most people want more than 2 oz. on a sandwich, but I'm trying to eat carefully.)
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>>>>>2 oz of meat on a sandwich!!!? That sounds a lot to me!
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>>>>When you consider that a McDonalds quarter pounder is only 4 ounces of meat-like substance, how can 2 ounces be a lot? I mean, half the size of one of those patties?
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>>>When you put it like that, hmmm. But one is a burger and the other a sandwich. Generally we'd buy sandwich meat by the quarter, and generally people have > 1 sandwich. Traditionally the English would put 1 or 2 thin slices of meat on a sandwich, weighing next to nothing.
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>>>If you go to a sandwich shop nowadays in England though they heap the filling on, American style.
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>>>OTOH we're now becoming more obese as a nation (the most in Europe), thanks to MacDonalds, KFC, Burger King, Subway et al leading us astray.