Maybe it's the system itself, one that enables individuals to have the majority of choices be full of fat and sugar? Will-power can take some people only so far. What if these same companies in other countries were producing healthier options, and it's consumers less fat because of it? Shouldn't a company if it can make a less fattening version of it's food, do so everywhere?
I wanted to write about this the moment we landed in the U.K., but unfortunately I was so starved I ate everything before I could snap some pictures. I did save these:
The one on the left.... Purchased at Heathrow the night before leaving, the second can, an American can my mother left while we were gone. Now first let me assure you I did check, and the flavoring has very little to do with any difference. In fact here's a couple of figures directly from their sites:
Pringles UK: (Original)
Portion: 25g
Fat: 9g
Pringles US: (Original)
Portion 28g
Fat: 11g
Okay, maybe not the best example, and with just that I might not have a point. The minor difference in portions might impact the rounding of numbers. After all, my can of UK Sour Creme and onion says 8.8, but the website says 8.5, the US version is 10g. But again if you eat by the portioning, you are eating less.
Someone on Greensboring warned me about soda cans being an ounce less. Indeed I did perceive this upon buying my first U.K. 6 pack of diet coke. It's little things like this that seems to add up to make a huge difference. One night I ate a Big Mac. I don't really eat alot of them here, but I just wanted to see if they're different. Remarkably this was the first thing I tasted that tasted like it's U.S. counterpart. I noticed however the beef seemed to be very different. Much thinner. In fact the U.K. Big Mac is 5 grams less fat then our American version? 5 grams is alot, ask any dieter. Why can't McDonald's do the same thing over here is beyond me?
I of course already mentioned my Dominos experience with it's less fat version of pizza. It's not that there is really any smoking gun here, just a general observation that makes me wonder why it's not being done here? Sure some might argue getting an ounce less coke is a rip-off, but generally I never noticed the differences in proportions, or fat, I just became curious as I went along. Certainly one can argue, that Brits have their share of clotted creme, and stuffed meat pies, but one can also argue that most convenience stores we visited there had fruit on their aisles. Yes fruit. I can't recall ever seeing fruit as an option in U.S. convenience stores.
The real big interesting thing is even though I was on vacation, and not following any diet what-so-ever, I ended up losing weight on this vacation. Sure we did alot of walking, but any vacation you actually come back skinnier, is worth investigating.
Hmm, am I blaming the parents??? 
