Just heard Cat Cole say in an interview that Cinnabon believes their customers have enough sense to decide whether to share an 800 calorie bun, buy smaller minibuns or eat the whole thing on those random times when you are craving sugar.
I remember when my boys were young, we used to take my husband to the airport on Sundays. We would share a Cinnabon at the airport and buy one or two to take home to share later in the week. It was a sweet reminder of times with Dad. The most anyone got over several days was 600 calories, usually about 400. No more than having a few cookies but they would spend the time they were eating talking about something their dad did.
So happy to hear a company realizes we are responsible for our choices. Thus my motivation for this rambling.
It is time the government gets out of portion control. I like the idea of knowing how many calories, fat grams, etc. are in my food, but I do not need them determining what I can and cannot buy. Maybe instead we need to consider breeding control. Wouldn't it nice if people who are too stupid to to weak were not allowed to breed. Yes I am being facetious- well slightly. Seriously, stop expecting the government to raise your kids. If you want to raise one, then grow up and take the responsibility for the job.
Just because McDonald's sells a double quarter pounder with cheese does not mean I have to eat it everyday or for that matter even one day. There is no detour that forces my car into the parking lot and doesn't let me out till I buy one. As a former, very former, fast food worker, I remember when the "Gino Giant" (our version of the the Big Mac) was the burger people bought to share or the football players came in to get. Real people ate single burgers, shared an order of fries and bought 12 ounce drinks.without refills. The store came out with a quarter pounder-we called it the JUMBO- hint hint folks, the name means it is BIGGGGGG. The only people who bought it were the football players or couple who came in and ordered one to share. I remember when Mickey D's revealed the double quarter pounder. I seriously wondered who would order that. Now, when you go into the store, most of the sandwiches you see are at the very least double burgers (though with size reductions that is more like a 1.5 burger) and it is not unusual to see kids with a double quarter pounder with cheese. I hear mothers say that "He" is a growing boy," or "I don't want him to be hungry," or worst of all-"He won't eat it all anyway, but he really wants it." True but the idea is to grow up-not out. No one should order food they know they are going to throw away. We also should not give our kids more food than they should eat. For one thing, what happens when they start eating more and more till the entire 2000 calorie meal is consumed. AND they will, especially if you sit and talk after eating or while waiting for the little one to finish the meal. When food is sitting in front of you on the table, it is too easy to mindlessly keep nibbling. We are the adults and we need to teach our kids to make good choices. Since my children were small, I have always tried to guide their food choices. We insisted on a green vegetable as a choice; we also paid extra to get milk with our Happy Meals before they included it for free everywhere (It was only about 25 cents and if I can't afford that, I shouldn't be at a restaurant this week.) AND HEAVEN FORBID- I would say, "No, not this trip." as my son was begging for MAC donnals or King a Burger.
PARENTS need to be PARENTS not buddies. I really feel like we have become a society of people who are not taking responsibility for ourselves. If the government and our parents do not start letting us take the consequences for our actions, we will not learn to make wise choices. I don't want to live in a society where someone tells me everything to do and we are all the same. That IS what will happen if we don't start making responsible choices. Take away all our choices and we WILL become dumb.
Add to that the geniuses n New York who think they are doing people a favor by limiting the sizes of sodas. That's "POP" for you Mid-westerners and "DRINKS" for the Southerners who missed the whole argument. The only people who benefit from this law are the businesses selling the drinks. My husband and I generally share a large drink. If you take a 32 oz. cup, fill it three quarters of the way with ice and then put a drink in it, you end up with about 20 oz. of drinks--that comes to 10 oz per person-only I get about 15 oz and he gets the rest. That costs the business the price of the cup plus about 5 cents. The other $1.75 is pure profit. Now with the drink sizes being reduced in NY, and the lemmings will probably follow suit in other cities and states, we would have to buy two small drinks to get our 20 oz of soda or maybe even medium size. That means the stores will make about twice what they made on the large one as profit-----no wonder they didn't fight the law. Do they really think I am going to drink less with my meal because they reduce the size of the items? Well I will because I'll get water and skip the gold plated soda.
Companies do not make anyone overweight-choices and metabolism do.
OOOOH this is fun, getting to rant without annoying my Facebook friends.
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