My family came up to visit to bring me out to dinner for my birthday yesterday. We all went to an Italian restaurant on Staten Island. When we arrived, we were brought three kinds of amuse bouches, meaning “chef’s gift”. We were brought bread, fried polenta, and bruschetta. We all attacked the food we were brought, filling up on that before we even ordered appetizers. We then ordered an appetizer to share for the table. By the time we were finished with our appetizer, my whole family, including myself came to the consensus that we were all full already. But we still had our entrees to come. We received our entrees and began eating them although we were already full. Because we were all in a group, we consumed much more food than we would have if we were eating individually, which is understandable because it is shown in psychology that a person consumes more food if they are in the presence of other people eating as well. We all managed to finish our entrees because it is the polite thing to do in Italian culture. If we were eating individually, we most likely would have stopped eating after our appetizer was finished, but because we were in a group, we consumed way more than we normally would.