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… to think this is ridiculous. (portion size)

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Elphame · 26/06/2024 13:38

I fancied a Chelsea bun from the bakery this morning so asked for one to be added to my bread order. Didn’t really think much about it.

When I got it home I was staggered by the size of it.

Is this really what passes for the one serving of cake for one person? I’ll eat about a quarter. It will be stale tomorrow so the birds will get the rest.

Teaspoon for scale

… to think this is ridiculous. (portion size)
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notprincehamlet · 26/06/2024 18:05

Well I'd have to take a run at it but I reckon I could see it off in one sitting ... o that's a teaspoon! I thought it was a spade.

HangingOver · 26/06/2024 17:58

Struggling to see how anyone would be anything other than delighted about a much larger than expected cake

Theunamedcat · 26/06/2024 17:58

It won't be stale by tomorrow wrap it

WhatAFaffyFiasco · 26/06/2024 17:57

Differentstarts · 26/06/2024 17:52

I remember once buying a doughnut abroad that was the size of my head. It was a great day 😁 and yes I did eat it all as I'm normal 😋 and it was a treat

Yes, was it Euro Bakers, or a man on a beach? My first time a broad with my friends there was a man on the beach, selling huge doughnuts I'm sure it was all above board 😂

SensualDecay · 26/06/2024 17:55

I'm very slim and I could demolish that within seconds and be ordering a couple of pizzas for pudding before you could say massive salad.

KimberleyClark · 26/06/2024 17:53

gardenmusic · 26/06/2024 16:05

But which crumpets did the study use? Some scrappy little thing, or a generously sized one?

The giant ones?

Differentstarts · 26/06/2024 17:52

I remember once buying a doughnut abroad that was the size of my head. It was a great day 😁 and yes I did eat it all as I'm normal 😋 and it was a treat

Techno56 · 26/06/2024 17:49

KTheGrey · 26/06/2024 16:44

It was the Gloucester Road one I went to last Christmas. Pinkertons, is it?

Anyway, they had big buns but they were not their own sourdoughs, because of burnt down kitchen catastrophe.

But I will try again next time I am in town. I am not too proud to make left over bun into breadnbutter pudding. 😀

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Ahh, perhaps the park street kitchen was where the sourdoughnuts were made. I'm sure they are doing them again now though - Pinkmans - but I have had to unfollow their Instagram as it just makes me long for cake all the time 😁

worcesterpear · 26/06/2024 17:47

I mean it's big but it's not that big. It looks too dry for me.

Makemydaypunk · 26/06/2024 17:47

Why not give some to a neighbour/friend if you dont want it all.

I can just imagine my neighbours perplexed face if I turned up at their door with a half eaten Chelsea bun, they would think I had lost the plot.

ChrisPPancake · 26/06/2024 17:47

ArabellaScott · 26/06/2024 17:46

I like big buns, I cannot lie.

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ArabellaScott · 26/06/2024 17:46

I like big buns, I cannot lie.

custardcreme77 · 26/06/2024 17:45

I could easily eat that, no problem at all. I could eat one right now after seeing the picture.

usernother · 26/06/2024 17:44

Are you French sized OP? IYKYN

whyamisotiredallthetime · 26/06/2024 17:43

Could you manage that after a massive salad OP?

ChrisPPancake · 26/06/2024 17:41

Nowhere near enough icing on that for me.

KomodoOhno · 26/06/2024 17:41

Koolsgang · 26/06/2024 13:44

Not sure what your problem is here OP. It seems like a thinly veiled way of saying only fatties would eat the whole bun. Can you also not understand how people can finish an afternoon tea?

This. If it's so huge cut it in half.

RunAwayTurnAwayRunAwayTurnAway · 26/06/2024 17:40

Is this competitive under eating, OP? A bun the width and height of a teaspoon is not massive!

Garlicker · 26/06/2024 17:38

MeAgainAndAgain · 26/06/2024 14:36

Re calories and overeating, I don’t think many women (or indeed people) were attending gyms or out jogging in the past as they are now. People who have physical jobs have always been active of course, but in the 1970s who ever said that going to a gym was a thing? Only for a few people I would guess, but now it’s a very mainstream thing to do.

This is true. But people did walk more. Never mind that, though: Mumsnet's disorderly eaters have a few lively threads going on how exercise has no impact on weight. This is excellent for them, as it means they can back up their dietary obsessions with The Latest Science proving that overweight people are, indeed, greedy gluttons eating All The Wrong Things.

Personally, I tend to suspect that someone with a physically demanding job could eat quite a bit more (including Chelsea buns) than a paraplegic in a wheelchair before getting fat. But the teeny-tinies can always find some Science!

Also, I now want a Chelsea bun but the bakery's closed 😭

butterpuffed · 26/06/2024 17:32

Jenrht · 26/06/2024 17:04

This 100%

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Only bored and/or moody MNers could pile on an Op about Chelsea buns 😂

Makemydaypunk · 26/06/2024 17:30

user1984778379202 · 26/06/2024 15:54

You've missed the point. In 1993, crumpets would be 3/4 smaller than they are etc. Food portions have been sized up in the passing decades and now there's an obesity epidemic.

I find the anger on this thread about fat shaming so hypocritical. Why is it okay for posters to shame OP and others just because they eat less???? My teen DD is very tall for her age, naturally lean and has a small appetite. Family members constantly tell her she's too skinny in a way they'd never dream of telling her obese uncle that he's too fat, and they try to force more food on her all the time – how is that okay?

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But everything is getting smaller, shrinkflation, the size of a regular mars bar today compared to the 70’s and 80’s are tiny and that’s just one example, there have been threads about how products are shrinking and we are still being charged the same, so no I don’t believe food products that we buy from supermarkets are increasing in size, completely the opposite.

FangsForTheMemory · 26/06/2024 17:25

SpidersAreShitheads · 26/06/2024 16:30

People complaining about the bun being large enough to share are going to be apoplectic when they hear about birthday cakes.

You’re suggesting there are people who SHARE their birthday cake?

JOEY DOESN’T SHARE CAKE!

Jacopo · 26/06/2024 17:23

I agree, that bun is twice the size of the ones I ate in my youth. I don't understand why people are so triggered when this is pointed out. Portion sizes are much bigger than they were. People are much bigger than they were. It's not unreasonable to assume there may be some kind of correlation between the two.

WithACatLikeTread · 26/06/2024 17:20

YABU I would eat all that quite easily in one sitting.

DiscoBeat · 26/06/2024 17:18

It is too much for one sitting but I'd do as you have and cut it in half, one for tomorrow.

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