#2. I'd Like the Kid's Meal, Please

I think it's quite obvious that America has an over-eating problem. Even when I'm not hungry, I go to Taco Bell to get a couple of things to munch on while I watch I Love Lucy. But, why? Why do I do this? After searching and searching for an answer, I don't actually know. Perhaps I need a clinical psychologist to diagnose my problem of NeedingtacobellduringILoveLucyitis. Maybe it's a complex. Maybe I just like junk food. The problem here is training myself to actually stop eating when I'm full and realize that my stomach is saying to my mind, "STOP! STOP NOW. Don't you feel the limit? I know you feel the limit! What's wrong with you!?" If people would just listen to their stomachs, and feel the limit, I don't think that there would be so many overweight people in the United States, I really don't. But the other problem is the psychological overeating because of emotional problems... I can't help ya there. Sorry. Take that one to Jesus and your local psychiatrist.

Today, I went to Rubio's for lunch. Ohmigoodness, how I love Rubio's. I ordered a kid's meal. The bean burrito in the kid's meal at Rubio's is by far enough for me. It also came with a soda, chips, and a churro (yum). I kept staring at the bean burrito thinking, okay. This is probably the size of most humans' stomachs. And, it is the smaller size of the bean burrito to accomodate the "child." At the end of the meal, (now) I felt the limit line in my stomach saying, "Sir, you could have eaten a little bit less, and you know it." And this leads me to think: if a kid's meal fills me, a growing adolescent male, then why are portions so large? I think this is the question that the restaurant industry needs to answer. My firm belief is that the adult's meals need to become the size of the kid's meal and the kid's meal should downsize. Because, if a kid's meal is making me more than full, what is it doing to the small child who only wants the meal for the toy?

#1. May 4, 2010

I'm very excited about the prospects of a blog. I do consider myself somewhat of a writer, and I think that it will definitely help me exercise my skill. Too often I get caught up in a daily to-do list that I forget about my love for written articulation of thought. Here's hoping that this will be a healthy forum for the expression of thoughts and ideas not yet disclosed to society. (What on Earth did that last sentence mean? I don't know, but it sounds quite intelligent. ;D)

Letz do dis thaaang.