Farnham Colossi, Unger WV [image credit: Eccentric Roadside]
Or does it just taste that way?
Purely in the name of scientific research, I’ve recently been investigating.
Exhibit #1: Blueberry pancakes the size of your head. (In A Pickle, Waltham, MA)
[NOTE: Our waitress at Pickle was truly distressed when our order didn’t contain any pig. Most customers, she told us, get at least two different kinds.]
Exhibit #2: Club sandwich that should have its own zip code. (Brent’s Deli, Thousand Oaks, CA)
Exhibit #3: Banana Boat from Dairy Joy, Weston MA. (Experimental method: One banana, two kinds of fresh fruit such as pineapple and strawberry slices, hot fudge sauce, whipped cream, and nuts.) Clearly, this dish requires specialized training and considerable stamina. We had two spoons and lots of enthusiasm, but were easily outclassed by a pair of preschoolers at the next table.
NOTE: If you’d like to duplicate this experiment, conditions are ideal at the Dairy Joy Restaurant, Weston, MA
Our research continues.
Pass the antacid and please excuse the burps. This is for science, people.
Barb Taub 
Holy crap Barb, you could feed a small nation on that food! I want to see the mouth that could wrap itself around that club sandwich. 😳 Too bad nobody in Washington has a brain the size of that blueberry pancake!!
🔹GInger 🔹
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As someone who’s from that OTHER Washington, I’m going to just claim a blueberry pancake-sized brain!
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I’ve made blueberry pancakes and I thought they were supposed to be the size of a small hand. It shows how mistaken you can be about foreign food.
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Hey, I’m FROM that foreign land and I always thought just the same thing. (A small hand size at that!)
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In that case, I’ll make them the same way when I’ve got blueberries next year. That’s a bit of a relief.
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OMG! These are huge!
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I felt SO guilty for leaving so much food behind each time.
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Gosh, they’re gigantic….!!!
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The really scary part is that all around us people were consuming this much and more.
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Eekkk….
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Incredible! We always share when in the US.
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I felt like we should invite several people to dine with us each place.
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Your self sacrifice is to be commended. Though, perhaps not emulated too often!
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I know! I felt like each dish should come with complimentary stent and staten Rx.
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Yeah, but then there’s the English / Scottish / Whatever else British breakfast to weigh against all that.
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Ellen—Baked beans and haggis. For breakfast. I’m thinking that explains a lot about stiff upper lips.
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Good work Barb! You tested this so we don’t all have to. We all really appreciate your effort and dedication to research!
Also, is that dessert supposed to be for a whole family?
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Because what says family more than joint cardiac events?
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Yup. We use turkey platters to serve meals here in the USA. I don’t advocate it, but that’s what we do. When I give my patients weight loss tips I suggest they stay out of restaurants and use a dessert plate for meals. Works every time.
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Maybe they should put that on the menus. (Like those terrifying pictures of lung cancer on the cigarettes).
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Yes! They should have a warning. This platter of food could cause obesity, cancer, diabetes, and tooth decay!
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Reblogged this on Where Genres Collide.
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Wow! And yum!! Keep the research coming. 😀
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We had pancakes recently on our trip to NYC and while they were big they were NOTHING compared to that! I feel hard done by now…
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