On Serving Size

How much is too much?

On Serving Size

 

By Elton Camp

 

In the decades since I was a child,

I’ve seen serving sizes go so wild

From them being just barely enough

To enormous servings of their stuff

 

Somehow, it doesn’t seem right to me

A restaurant plate with enough for three

I like to feel that I got my money’s worth

But still not needlessly add to my girth

 

Of course, someone foolish this will call

“Hey, nobody is making you eat it all.”

But to waste food I was reared to hate

So it’s very hard to leave it on my plate

 

“Of starving kids in Africa you don’t care.

Otherwise, you’d eat�"not leave it there.”

Our upbringing it is very hard to put aside

And by our parents’ counsel not to abide

 

Half the food at more than half the price

As a café offering I think would be nice

The restaurant’s profits would increase

And wasting food might actually cease