"they must have overeaten in Canada"
Absolutely. I grew up under two parents who had survived the
Depression - never waste ANY food, EVER. I love Italian food but
can't handle Ottawa's Italian resaurants - they put twice as much on
my plate as I can possibly eat. There's a diddle, then pasta, another
diddle, more pasta, another diddle, more pasta ...
A question for Italian historians: what on earth did Italians eat
before modern durum wheat semolina (I must note, especially from
Canada) became available for pasta? Durum wheat supply mostly
postdates WW2, but there was nothing even remotely like it prior to
1900 except in specialist quantities.
Of course, I'm still really looking for weight data for southern
Italians of the '60's ...