Did Edgar Buchanan get enough to eat at home??

its 'tv' eating, have the actor take a big bite of food do that a few times then show an empty plate , it creates the illusion that he eats alot, remember it can take all day to shoot a scene,an actor would have to eat tons of food if he really was eating that much.

That's true. In fact, "TV eating" is something actors sometimes dread. The scene can take all day to film, and the food is sitting out under hot studio lights and getting gross. The pitcher of milk may be getting sour; the food is cold/stale, etc. But Uncle Joe's character was that of a lazy deadbeat, who napped and ate all day.

My dad was in advertising, and when I was a kid, I sometimes was in a commercial his agency was producing. I clearly remember one that was for a hot-dog chain. I was 11, and the commercial was a group of kids having a fun day at an amusement park, topped of with a big picnic table full of these wonderful hot dogs and all the fixings that us kids LOVED (or so the commercial wanted to show).

Even for a commercial, we filmed take after take, often sitting around doing nothing while they set up different camera angles, etc. It was July and a HOT summer day. The food was cold and disgusting. Flies were buzzing around and landing on the bowls of sauerkraut and chili, etc. Yet we had to chomp into them like they were the best things on Earth. After one take, the director said "cut" and all of us kids SPIT OUT the hot dogs. Things you would never see on the finished product.

I can just imagine what a food scene in a TV show would be like.

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