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31 December 2011

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LL

Really interesting; I always enjoy your weight maintenance posts. Looking forward to the half-a-sandwich post. I struggle with sandwiches myself.

Just curious what you mean by a "two-thumbs-sized slice." I'm envisioning a triangular slice of pie that's the width of two thumbs at its widest point, but I'm thinking that's probably not what you mean.

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Pie isn't the best example. Think brownies and other parallellopiped desserts for calibration purposes.

The point isn't to have an exact measurement -- if i was going for an exact measurement (and I have done this) I would use a mini electronic scale and weigh the slice. It is, literally, to have a "rule of thumb." It is possible to have some variation in the size of a dessert, quite a lot in fact, eyeballing the size with the two-thumbs rule, but what isn't possible is to have a wedge of pie the size of my hand and then tell myself I had the two-thumbs size.

The habit of "checking" the size of the pie against a handy standard (one that doesn't require carrying a scale or a ruler around) is the important thing.

But to answer your question, probably a one-thumb width (at the crust) of most pies is the same size as a two-thumbs brownie, but realistically I am going to go with a two-thumbs width as the standard pie slice, because I like pie more than brownies.

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