Dillon Deliberating

Food like money is unequally distributed with many like myself having for now access to plentiful amounts of food.  I feel slightly guilty and perhaps ungrateful to take advantage of Blog Action Day 2011: Food - to have a rant about one of my pet hates;  the upselling of food.  This mainly takes place in restuarants, cafes and fast food outlets.  In theory you should be able to say the following "can I have a burger and fries please"  without the upsell swinging into action "is that large fries, what drink would you like?".  

The upselling technique requires that counter staff do not listen to the food order but place the suggestion that you should instead be ordering a larger portion.  

We have Meat Free Mondays, I wonder if one day a month could be set aside, head office then instructs counter staff to stop upselling food.  On this day we could celebrate and enjoy smaller food portions.  Not only would our health improve but we would be conserving that most precious of commodities, food.  Of course I could stop going to to the types of resturants that engage in such upselling but this practice is more widespread than just the usual suspects.