Susie Watson, trend analyst and pop culture pundit teams up with cartoonist Barbara Luhring. Together they tear through the real and manufactured trends in pop culture today. Listen in!

Supersize Me? Nah.

Posted in Podcasts on July 26th, 2006

Getting more isn’t necessarily better, and now it seems positively obscene. Check out Grandma’s tiny dinner plates and juice glasses for a reminder of what pigs we’ve really become. A stop at Pottery Barn for 14″ dinner plates is the inspiration for a meal that would have fed four in the 50’s. Portions and servings are bigger than ever - a medium popcorn was three cups in the 50’s and now is 16. Seriously! And how about the furniture scaled to fit McMansions of our times? Music: She’s Actual Size by They Might Be Giants

 
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