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"Care for an Entrée With Your Entrée?" Gluttony, the Forgotten Sin
Patrick Madrid.blogspot.com ^ | June 4, 2009 | Patrick Madrid

Posted on 06/04/2009 7:46:20 AM PDT by GonzoII

Catering to gluttony is big business these days. Practically every restaurant — including all the popular chains that you and I and every other American dines at, now and then — goes way overboard in the super-sized portions they dish up and the bad-for-your-health ingredients in the food. For example, check out what one recent scientific study discovered about some dishes served at a very popular Italian food restaurant chain.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: gluttony; obesity
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1 posted on 06/04/2009 7:46:20 AM PDT by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

This is silly. If you care about healthy food why would you eat out?


2 posted on 06/04/2009 7:47:31 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: GonzoII

It’s a proven fact that these restaurants will stop offering/selling these items if the customers stop buying them.

Just saying.


3 posted on 06/04/2009 7:48:06 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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my biggest complaint is the portions are too large for me to consume in one sitting..I solve that by eating maybe a third and getting a doggy bag..I spread that meal out over a period of a full day or 2..one must leave room for liquified hops and barley ya know..


4 posted on 06/04/2009 7:53:33 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
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To: SJSAMPLE
A couple of years I was out with my folks at a restuarant that had an “all you can eat” area. One of the patrons was really going after it. It struck me that here was an example of “gluttony”. Food was smeared all over his face and clothes. He was very overweight. He kept shoveling it right on in.

It was quite something in a bad way.

5 posted on 06/04/2009 7:54:43 AM PDT by AceMineral (Offically unapproved of since 1973)
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To: GonzoII

Doggie-bags, please.


6 posted on 06/04/2009 7:55:09 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: SJSAMPLE
It’s a proven fact that these restaurants will stop offering/selling these items if the customers stop buying them.

A proven fact, huh? Well then, please point us to the authoritative source of the proof. What was it, a study, or a repeated historical fact?

Please enlighten us as to the proof.

7 posted on 06/04/2009 7:55:17 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: SJSAMPLE; pnh102
"restaurants will stop offering/selling "

"This is silly. If you care about healthy food why would you eat out?"

This article is about sin.

8 posted on 06/04/2009 7:55:33 AM PDT by GonzoII ("That they may be one...Father")
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To: GonzoII
The moral deformity discernible in this vice lies in its defiance of the order postulated by reason, which prescribes necessity as the measure of indulgence in eating and drinking.

So what do "reason" and "neccessity" tell us? That a daily intake of more than 2500 calories is immoral?

9 posted on 06/04/2009 7:55:33 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: GonzoII

Yeah, liberty is so overrated, doncha think?

/sarcasm


10 posted on 06/04/2009 7:56:14 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: GonzoII
That's why your friendly server will provide you with a white styrofoam takeout container. Lunch the next day...what could be better?

Moderation is for monks. Enjoy life.

11 posted on 06/04/2009 7:57:10 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: AceMineral

Our Kiwanis club meets at an AYCE place. Some really big people frequent that place.


12 posted on 06/04/2009 7:57:21 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: pnh102

The people who want me to tolerate sexual deviants are the first people to demand to control what I want for dinner. The day there is one set of rules for everybody, you can have my crab rangoons.


13 posted on 06/04/2009 7:58:46 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: Alex Murphy
"So what do "reason" and "neccessity" tell us?"

Your bad back and heart attacks.

14 posted on 06/04/2009 7:58:48 AM PDT by GonzoII ("That they may be one...Father")
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To: savedbygrace

It’s called ECONOMICS.
Any decent eduction will offer this, to varying degrees.

In a market system, when demand dwindles, the supply will be restricted.

If you want specific proof, check out the McDLT.
They offered it, people didn’t buy it, so they stopped offering it.

Whoda’ thunk it?


15 posted on 06/04/2009 7:58:49 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: GonzoII

I know, which is why I specified the DEMAND side of the equation.


16 posted on 06/04/2009 7:59:27 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: SJSAMPLE

They’ll also stop if their food costs go way up. This all started because it was a better deal for the restaurants to make bigger portions than to cut prices to compete with each other.


17 posted on 06/04/2009 7:59:27 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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To: AceMineral

Yep, I’ve seen some people at some of those places loading their plates four or five times over. And, every one of them will tell you to your face they have a metabolism problem or, the battle cry of the obese, “it’s my thyroid condition”.


18 posted on 06/04/2009 7:59:52 AM PDT by PrairieRoot (Here's hoping Global Warning extends the hunting and logging seasons.)
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To: pnh102
This is silly. If you care about healthy food why would you eat out?

To enjoy life a little, maybe?

19 posted on 06/04/2009 8:00:06 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: savedbygrace

It’s a TRUE fact.


20 posted on 06/04/2009 8:00:53 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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