doodledee

Here's a good read that talks about why people eat so much food. Go figure, a lot of it has to do with restaurants serving giant portions. I also have to believe that a lot of it has to do with consumers making bad choices. I guess that leaves me mad at the fast food industry and at dumb people. Huh.

This was my favorite quote from the article:

Give moviegoers an extra-large tub of popcorn instead of a container one size smaller and they will eat 45 to 50 percent more, as Dr. Brian Wansink, a professor of nutritional science and marketing at the University of Illinois, showed in one experiment. Even if the popcorn is stale, they will still eat 40 to 45 percent more.

Even if it's stale? That's rules. I wonder how they got people to volunteer for that study? "Wanted: doofs to eat day old popcorn. All you can eat. Bring your own toothpicks."