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In Finland, they advertise the largest container of mayonnaise as "American Size" (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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I'm sad that I missed posting this on the 4th

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

And a lot of those are related. Big country means that our cities can sprawl. Big (low-density) cities mean that our roads can be wide. Big roads mean that our cars can be big.

Big country also means that there are a lot of people, and sooner or later a good percentage of them want to live close together, so they build big (dense) cities, which means big buildings.

And the sprawl leads to the part about big containers of unhealthy food, too. If you live more than an hour away from the nearest grocery store, you're unlikely to get groceries more than every other week or so, which means you need to buy larger, more shelf-stable containers of food.