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The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world

7mo ago

Diet goals

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The idea could be perfectly cute, and I feel like it would have been so easy to not make it "shame-y".
Like, "just a nibble", "pretty good!”, "yum!" and "my favorite". "I couldn't possibly...", "if you insist", and "thanks Grandma".
- I would buy those plates.
  
  I briefly looked into how you make a food safe painted plate at home and the answer seems to be "easy if you have a kiln".
  You might be able to find a paint your own pottery store near you. I went to one with some friends and it was a lot of fun and I got a colorful owl coin bank for like, $10 or something. Just have to make sure it's food safe, but they usually coat everything in a glass food safe glaze so it should be.
  Unrelated, weed is legal where I live, so when I checked the website for the place I went, it had big banners for "summer kids clay classes!" And "pot-tery for adults!" right next to each other.
  It totally makes sense but part of me is still startled by tangential consequences of legalization.
  
  Yeah me too. This has potential!
- "Food Coma / Foodie" are in the image, and that's pretty solid. Maybe "3-Star / 5-Star / Greasy Spoon"? I like the one that you came up with that ends with "thanks Grandma."

Note to self: eat food that can stay piled high.
- Just drop a can of Pringles on that bad boy
- Extra strength mashed potatoes!
  
  Throw some gravy on there and we call that the volcano
- The Croquembouche is here for you.
- You could probably build a Jenga tower out of those rectangular layered wafers.

This is about as good an idea as nipple tassles for babies.
- What an upsettingly evocative image. I love how much I hate it.
  
  Ironically, babies would probably have a grand fun time with nipple tassels.
- Shake repeatedly to make em fly in circles
- I do not enjoy the mental image it gave me, I hate it and its even worser that the babies are laughing in my mental image
- I read this as hats with nipples on them which I think could be a pretty funny protest for places that don't allow breast feeding.
- So you're saying this is a very good idea?

Seriously though, who would look at these plates and say "omg I have to have those?"
- I think they're funny and could remind me to stick to smaller portions?
  
  I mean I guess but I'm not too keen on the idea of needing a plate to tell me how much to eat.
- "cool, I'll give this to my mother-in-law. I'm sure she'll like it"

No z-limit means that these plates are meaningless for the creative cook.
- My mom used to always joke about how they recommended your meat portion be the size of your palm, but they didn't say how high.
- Calories only exist in 2D

I just eat my food out of a trough.
- That was the only way we could stop our cat from making a mess everywhere, so probably works for Hobos too

you guys use plates??
- I really like the tradition some countries have where the plate is a flatbread or pancake of some sort.
  
  Won't those get really soggy and fall to pieces in a washing machine?
  
  Now you're making me want to eat injura. I love the spongy sour taste of them. Plus let's face it Ethiopian food is pretty good.
  
  We've been doing that for a long time. We switched to plates around 13 or 1400 something, for unclear reasons.
- Only when the eating funnel needs to be scraped clean.

I saw this one on r/EDanonymemes a few days ago

These are not a good way to track how much you eat, get a calorie & nutrition tracking app
- Passive vs active engagement.
  These plates are a passive, very visual reminder. A tracker app requires you actively use the app, and not consciously/subconsciously underestimate portions.
  Neither is a holistic solution, both require buy-in, each is going to have different effectiveness for different people.
  
  While it's true that multiple strategies can be helpful, I don't think the tiny "skinny jeans" circle on that plate is anything but a harmful idea.
  
  Portion sizes are not the same across one meal

Mam jeans?
- Right? That was the first thing I thought, that's a cursive 'a,' a cursive 'o' has the "tail" at the top, not the bottom.
- Mam is common in northern England.
  
  We'd have a u in favourite.

It's it the dream of every little girl to become a mother? Now you know how!
- I feel like there's a toxic body image/patriarchal component to only eating the large portion once you are a mother/soon to be a mother. Something about "letting yourself go" or something terrible like that
  
  True. I've tried to be body positive but I guess I failed

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