Most of them seem very reasonable - but half an ounce of cheese? Who’s that for? A mouse? ;)

Heh, I know. They’re very modest by my estimation, but I think the idea is to make it easy to see what the nutrition label calls a portion, you know? I think a lot of people were scarfing things like potato chips thinking a portion was “a sitting” rather than, like, 5 chips or whatever. :-)

McDonald’s has done all the portioning for me ;-)

Good luck trying to find a bagel the size of a hockey puck these days. On average, I think they are more than double that size now.

I think Hockey Pucks = About the size of a bagel is more helpful for me, since I have no idea how big they are.

Who made this list, a Canadian?

What kind of sick freak only eats three ounces of meat at a time? BAH.

Of course there’s the whole Libraries of Congress standard unit of data measure.

I notice that 2 TB butter is on that list twice. If A = B and B = C, then tell whose thumb, from joint to tip, is the same size as a ping pong ball? That’s one weird thumb.

It might be a metric rather than imperial ping pong ball.

i kinda like the tiny official portions. when i was little i used to feel really virtuous eating a big orange, because it counted as two fruits.

i’ve met a lot of people whose high school health classes used food guesstimations in reverse, to describe the size of growing fetuses (jellybean —> shrimp —> pear —> watermelon). the shrimp always creeps me out.