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Post soviet and balkan countries are similar, because meat consumption (and being fat in general) used to be a status symbol, especially pork, which is particularly unhealthy compared to e.g. chicken

Luckily this started drying up in the early 2010s, but you can still find (or rather, accidentally run into) restaurants where the whole point is that they put a truckwagonload of food on your plate for you to “enjoy” (that’s typically mediocre at best, and sub-mediocre and unhealthy at the usual), and you can find people, typically older or rural folks who, if asked how a particular restaurant was, 95% of their answer would be about the portion itself, and rarely about the quality, atmosphere, etc.

So overall food has started becoming much better over the last decade and half, but most restaurants are still very much afraid of putting smaller portions of higher quality food on your plate because of potential backlash or criticism

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Post soviet and balkan countries are similar, because meat consumption (and being fat in general) used to be a status symbol, especially pork, which is particularly unhealthy compared to e.g. chicken

Luckily this started drying up in the early 2010s, but you can still find (or rather, accidentally run into) restaurants where the whole point is that they put a truckwagonload of food on your plate for you to “enjoy” (that’s typically mediocre at best, and sub-mediocre and unhealthy at the usual)

So food has started becoming much better over the last decade and half, but most restaurants are still very much afraid of putting smaller portions of higher quality food on your plate because of potential backlash or criticism

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Post soviet and balkan countries are similar, because meat consumption used to be a status symbol, especially pork, which is particularly unhealthy compared to e.g. chicken

Luckily this started drying up in the early 2010s, but you can still find (or rather, accidentally run into) restaurants where the whole point is that they put a truckwagonload of food on your plate for you to “enjoy” (that’s typically mediocre at best, and sub-mediocre and unhealthy at the usual)