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Originally Posted by Jersey 2.0
What's considered something small to eat when someone says they had something small for a meal? For example, my husband had a 12 inch hoagie of dinner (sub, hero, lunchmeant on a long roll. Whatever you call it in your area. Here it's called a hoagie) Anyways, when I came in tonight I asked him what he ate-he said "I just wanted something small so I had a 12 inch ham and cheese hoagie" I said that's not small. He said yes it is, it was a sandwich-a sandwich is a small dinner. Um..I know my perception about food is far from normal, but small to me is like an apple or something. Anybody else?
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To me, that's huge, but meal size is in the eye of the beholder. I had a colleague I was on the road with and we were going to pull over for lunch. We talked about what we were hungry for and she said she just wanted half a sandwich and didn't need to overdo it, and that we should get a whole one and split it. To her, that sounded like a done deal. I was really hungry, though, and half a sandwich wasn't going to cut it, but she had already set it up so that half a sandwich was the reasonable lunch and she would be a pig to want more. I was so hungry, I finally got up the nerve to say, but what if I don't want only half?
She was shocked by this, and then was embarrassed, saying she was sorry she never thought what I wanted. I'm about a foot taller than she is, and a lot more active, it made sense that I would be hungrier, but the whole thing had turned into some sort of judgement about what's enough to eat based only on her needs. Neither of us was right, and at the same time, we both were.