The morning she arrived at a college in rural Illinois from a sister school in Japan, Naomi Moriyama was offered a glass of orange juice so big her eyes widened in amazement. How, the 19-year-old scholarship student wondered, could anyone possibly drink so much orange juice?
Portions in the school cafeteria, she would discover in short order, were "almost freakishly huge" – "piles of waffles soaked in oceans of syrup, flanked by boatloads of eggs and bacon" for breakfast, giant cheeseburgers, fries and soft drinks at lunch and, at dinner, "mountains of meat and potatoes, heaps of pasta and pizzas so big I could skate on them.
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