Today is a rainy, cold, gray day and I just really wanted soup for lunch. The closest place to get soup is Chili’s, so I ordered a bowl of southwest chicken soup online and went to pick it up.
When I got there, the waitress put my bag on the counter and went to cash me out but her computer was frozen. She asked me to wait just a second while she went to get a manager and while she was gone, I peeked inside the bag to look at my bowl of steamy goodness.
Only, what I saw, did not look like a bowl, it looked like a cup. Like an actual 8 oz cup.
So when she returned, I asked about it.
Me: “Excuse me, is this a bowl or a cup?”
Her: “That’s a bowl.”
Me: “That’s a bowl??”
Her: “That’s a bowl.”
Me: “THAT’S a bowl???”
Her: “That’s a bowl. The cup is about half that size.”
Me: …
Her: …
Me: “Oh wow. Um, okay.”
Don’t get me wrong, I like Chili’s and the soup was good…I was just hoping for an actual BOWL (like, at least 12 -16 ounces – that’s a bowl, right?!) and not the smallish serving I got. I still ate it and enjoyed it even though it was only lukewarm by the time I got it back to my office. Since it was so small, I stopped at a convenience store and got a sandwich to eat with it because I knew that little cup, oh excuse me…bowl, wouldn’t hold me over all afternoon.
Live and learn I guess. 
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Next up…the thimble.
I always thought US fast food went in the opposite direction: here is your 18 gallon “small” coke! Or you can get a “regular” with free rental of a wheelbarrow to take it home in.
Correct size Portions are much smaller than we think. In this day & age everything is super-sized. I am showing my age here, but McDonald’s happy meal was the portion that adults ordered in the 70’s.
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