A while ago one of you noted in passing that
when I have been to Italy I did not see too many over weight people. And you eat pasta all the time […]
To Italian ears, the remark is of course a non sequitur, but in US culture it’s a genuine curiosity, worthy of some explanation.
The explanation is this: we are not too overweight (neither we are too weight-concerned) because we do not really eat so much.
Point one: size
Many years ago, when I was young and wild, I was in San Antonio, Texas and, meat-eater that I am, I mistakenly ordered a large of baby ribs. The fact that the menu mentioned the word “bucket” as the serving container should have warned me, because I was actually served a bucketful of baby ribs. And although my personal meat-eating record is a 1,3kg fiorentina (bone included), I…