So, if I bake a potato, I can eat two or three max. If I mash them, I can consume about six or seven. If I fry them, I can eat about eight or nine. Then, the kicker is: if I make them into a potato salad with onions, eggs, mayonnaise and all sorts of other stuff added to them, I can eat about ten to fourteen of them. How is this possible?
2007-02-14 11:51:45 · 4 answers · asked by martinlh 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
I guess it's a psychological thing. If you were to just bake the potato and eat it, you would be counting the number of potatoes you eat, and feel that it's too much. However, if you mashed it or fry them, you don't see the actual 1 potato. With no quantitative measure, your mind gets fooled.
2007-02-14 13:16:02 · answer #1 · answered by oriole52 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is because it doesn't seem like you are eating as much. Like when you're drinking, if you drink a bunch of milk in one glass then it seems like a bunch. But when you drink the same amout in small potions then it doesn't seem a much
2007-02-14 20:00:50 · answer #2 · answered by Cait the Great 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they are soooooooomuch yummier is that a word?mmmmmmmTato salad.
2007-02-14 20:21:59 · answer #3 · answered by sherrypie36 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because we are hungry and it breaks down
2007-02-14 20:03:58 · answer #4 · answered by Rapper4JC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋