ALBERTSON’S: THE LARGESSE OF AMERICAN FOOD BARNS
The first time I wandered into the Winter Park Albertson’s, I was flabbergasted by the gratuitious display of excess. Compared to most countries, everything here in America is larger than life, especially the highways, the cars, the grocery stores, and the portions of food served at any given restaurant. Some of the largesse is a residual effect of the theme park mentality which pervades Orlando, and some of it is simply a reflection of America’s immense resources, particularly its untold acres of arible land. As George Carlin mentioned in one of his routines, if you combined the total acreage of every golf course in America, it would equal the size of Rhode Island.
