A stout man polishes off a large dinner at a birthday party as his friend, who admits he had only a slice of quiche for dinner, watches longingly. The birthday girl blows out her candles – and Quicheman flies out the door.

Poor Quicheman. If he had eaten a Hungry Man XXL frozen entrée, he would be enjoying cake and ice cream with his fellow partygoers.

Hungry Man’s slogan, “It’s good to be full,” reveals the inner-thinking of the “growing” U.S. population.

Six in 10 U.S. adults are either overweight or obese, and despite incessant health warnings and diet advice, the waistlines are only expanding.

But while Americans are splitting their britches, 840 million people in the world are chronically malnourished or starving.

Last week, aid agencies warned the international community that the food crisis in Ethiopia could exceed the 1984 famine that killed nearly one million people. Cyclical droughts have resulted in fewer crops and dead livestock, resulting in shortages affecting the country’s already miniscule food supply. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi fears delayed help will inflame the crisis.

“If (the 1984 famine) was a nightmare, then this will be too ghastly to contemplate,” Zenawi said.

Images of skeletal children with swollen bellies brought a massive global response, but without constant reminding, generous donors have forgotten to donate canned goods.

Ethiopia has appealed to the international community for two million tons of food to feed its hungry, the UN World Food Program said last month.

Editorial Board has an idea. Let’s ship over those Hungry Man XXL dinners that marketers boast contain one pound of food. That’ll put some meat on those starving Ethiopians.

Better yet, the United States could work out an exchange program with the top three starving nations. We ship our heaviest to them in exchange for their lightest – kind of like fat camp gone extreme.

Not only will we shrink our Hungry Men, we’ll feed the true hungry menA