Outside of fine dining/small plates, portion sizes are fairly large in the UK if you're planning on eating three courses.

Apologies, the original story was about Simon getting overwhelmed by American servings so that context stuck.

If anything, it shows us that life is short, and can end at any moment, and maybe we shouldn't fill it with non-problems, like calculating the size of the food we order in order to don't have to take it away .-.