The answer to this question is of course SERVING SIZE AND ATTITUDE TOWARD FOOD. My dear one's father, Richard, lives in Texas and recently returned home to Australia telling us tales of the HUUUUGE meal serving sizes at restaurants, and the tendency to take SUGAR, MEAT and OIL and deep fry them and mix them together in every imaginable manner as standard daily fare. Richard tells us that even the Asian eateries have enormous portions (which seems strange to me) because that is what people expect. It is too easy to drive through and scoff down a take away meal - apparently (and this is a bit of a generalisation) people don't walk down the street in Houston - their bottoms permanently attached to the soothing leather of the car seat.