I live in the Atlanta area.. and while this isn't solely a regional issue.. we're not set up to walk anywhere.. in fact, to walk to a store from my neighborhood would be nerve wracking due to traffic.

We built great freeways, and located housing away from businesses.. which has the result of encouraging us to drive everywhere. I'm sure there are other factors.. but I really do think that's one.

While not obese, (I'm 6'5" at 215 lbs).. I'm heavier than I'd like to be. And my problem is well known to me.. I just eat too much! (I think I'd still be eating too much up north.. but who knows?)

Pass the biscuits

southern food is soo good

that is why.

deep fry me something random

"While not obese, (I'm 6'5" at 215 lbs).. I'm heavier than I'd like to be."

huh? I think you have a weight complex. For 6'5", that's a great weight.

I agree that the way we've created our communities plays a role. Add to that, Kliff's affinity for all things fried, and you have a winning combination.

.......BBQ'd pork ribs.......

Everybody knows I'm conservative and I usually don't rail on the South but I would say the cause is pure ignorance and apathy towards one's own health.

I'm gonna guess that deep frying anything that isn't covered in bbq sauce along with the desire to just lounge around and be lazy and have a few beers might have a little to do with it.

".......BBQ'd pork ribs......."
#4 | Posted by skizziks

Mmmm... pork ribs.

"but I would say the cause is pure ignorance and apathy towards one's own health."
#5 | Posted by eberly

Add those to the deep fry and car culture. A trifecta.

3 words.

Deep. Fried. Twinkie.

the cause is pure ignorance and apathy towards one's own health.

very well put.

Deep. Fried. Twinkie.

#8 | Posted by GotTruth

Nah, the Deep Fried Moonpies are way better!

I enjoy deep-fried deep fryer batter personally.

Large minority populations, ex-Asian.

Plus, a whole lot of very fat white people.

For about four months out of the year it is 127 degrees in Mississippi with 175% humidity. Anyone that wanted to do something physically demanding outside would die in minutes.

Seriously. For whatever reason you just don't see people exercising in the South (I lived there for 22 years). You can't swerve on the highway in NoCal without hitting someone on a bike or jogging. If you see someone running in the South they probably stole something recently.

There are gross, fat, junk food junkies everywhere. There just aren't many people in the South in good shape to curve the numbers.

(I'm 6'5" at 215 lbs)..

yeah yeah

We know.

Everyone on the internet is fucking Sasquatch with a 14 inch cock.

"fucking Sasquatch with a 14 inch cock"

Is it in yet?
~Ms Sasquatch

mmmmmmmm BEER mmmmmmmmm

(I'm 6'5" at 215 lbs)..

yeah yeah

We know.

Everyone on the internet is fucking Sasquatch with a 14 inch cock.

#14 | Posted by r8rh8r

Well someone has to keep up with the women on the internet they are all 120 lbs 5ft'4 blonde hair blue eyes and tits the size of watermelons...

Well someone has to keep up with the women on the internet they are all 120 lbs 5ft'4 blonde hair blue eyes and tits the size of watermelons...
......#17 | Posted by ATaxpayer

.....has my wife been sending her picture out again.??.....

Maybe there is a correlation between being fat and being stupid? After all, the South is the Bible Belt? And Southern States are mostly Republican? I'm sure a thorough analysis would reveal a correlation.

And we could also run another thread asking why Southerners, including Texans, are so stupid.

a correlation between being fat and being stupid?

I'm sitting here trying to think of a smart fat ass and it ain't easy.

I got Orson Wells, Churchill, and Roosevelt (he was very overweight at 5'8 and 220, but he doesn't seem that way in my mind's eye)

Two of the worst Presidents of all time, Grover Cleveland and Howard Taft, were fat as fuck.

"Maybe there is a correlation between being fat and being stupid?'

$10 to a rotten peanut says "yes".

No exercise.

Don't worry, y'all, God'll keep ya healthy if ya just PRAY hard after eating your deep fried pig fat and all.

Maybe that is why they had slaves. Being fat and lazy they couldn't manage to drag their big butts out to the fields to pick their own damn cotton.

And also this may be why they lost the Civil War so bad. Being fat and slow they were easy to shoot. And being stupid also didn't help.

(Gee. I like this thread.)

Southern people are fat because if they were thin then they'd look like the washington monument when in Klan robes.

If want to know why southerners are so fat just watch Paula Dean.

Just a dab of butter = two sticks.

Fat knows no bounds. You take in more calories than you burn and presto, you're fat.

And also this may be why they lost the Civil War so bad. Being fat and slow they were easy to shoot. And being stupid also didn't help.

#25 | Posted by moder8

Being Democrat didn't help either.

Maybe they are really just big-boned.

When a fat Southerner goes to heaven does he have to get bigger wings to support all the extra weight?

All they do all day long is sit around on their porch eating beef jerky, drinking beer, and watching the bug zapper. Of course anyone would get fat doing that.

How do you get a southerner to get up off their butt and get some exercise?

Tell 'em there's a lynchin' gonna take place a half mile down the road.

Popeye's Fried Chicken

Say no more

Reminds me of what my grandfather used to say:

"All the good blood got killed off in the Civil War."

"Why Are Southerners So Fat?"

Lotta butter, lotta cream, lotta pork fat!

Silly question, really.

Now if it does turn out that the typical Southerner is a fatty compared to other Americans, does that mean Southern States should pay more for Health Insurance because they are at greater risk?

And also this may be why they lost the Civil War so bad. Being fat and slow they were easy to shoot.

"so bad"?

learn your history

The North didn't out-shoot the South, they out-spent them. The Rebs killed slightly more than two yankees for every grey coat. They were particularly good at gunning down the officers at long range before a battle. For the most part they out maneuvered the Yanks, out marched 'em, out recruited them, and won plenty of fights whilst heavily outnumbered.

The Yanks had iron works, lots of money, paid mercenaries, and maybe most importantly, the moral high ground. Eventually the South just couldn't keep up with railroad and cannon production or the steady stream of immigrants "recruited" on Northern docks as fodder. But 'out fought'....not a chance.

Maybe that is why they had slaves. Being fat and lazy they couldn't manage to drag their big butts out to the fields to pick their own damn cotton.

And also this may be why they lost the Civil War so bad. Being fat and slow they were easy to shoot. And being stupid also didn't help.

(Gee. I like this thread.)

#25 | Posted by moder8 at 2009-07-10 04:54 PM/ FLAG: But still disappointed in not finding the words "Texas" or "Texans" included in the headline.

The south may not rise again.

But it is definitely getting wider.

"gunning down the officers at long range"

One of my favorite quotes: General John Sedgwick, battle of Spotsylvania, 1864 said, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist ... " He was dead wrong.

Actually, the reason the North won the Civil War was their secret weapon. It can now be told. The North strategically built Popeye's Chicken Franchises within a few miles of every major battlefield of the war. The fatties from the South all pigged out before battle and then had massive coronaries before a single shot was ever fired.

Regional issues aside, it would probably help if we stopped enabling fat people the way we do.

They want lunch, we see to it that 800 or more calories are available cheaply.

They want a car, we see to it that they can have a big fat car with big fat seats for big fat asses.

They want clothes, they don't have to go to a Big & Tall shop or Lane Bryant any more; the circus tents they need to cover their avoirdupois are in every store.

God forbid you should say anything to one of them about the situation; it has become politically incorrect, even when they turn up next to you in some public place, sweating and stinking profusely on a 70-degree day and with a belly peeking out from under the hem of an XXL t-shirt.

Worst of all is when your nose tells you that the two-legged behemoth you're forced to share space with is so fat they're unable to take care of their personal hygiene adequately. And again, you're not supposed to say diddly squat.

The South has a large population of blacks. Welfare + food stamps = fat. Even some of you South haters might be able to figure that out.

RebelNation: So are you saying the proper title for this thread really should be, 'Why Are Black People So Fat?'.

FRIED FOOD + PROCESSED SUGAR + LOW QUALITY BREAD + FAST FOOD + SODA + BACON = DEATH.

Two words and a condition.

The words are "comfort food." The condition is indifference to one's own health, or possibly ignorance.

For instance, until I moved to the south, I dont remember ever seeing people smoke cigarettes at the gas pump.

I've actually been told, "well somethin's gonna get ya!"

Maybe it's natural selection?

#37:r8rh8r Bullshit that is a fantasy perpetrated by inbred southern plowfucks like yourself.

The truth of the matter is that in the early days of the war, the south was using their slaves to essentially do all of the heavy lifting and quartermastering while in the North half the troops were doing those very tasks.

Once the emancipation proclamation was issued by Lincoln the South could no longer have their precious slaves so close to the front that they might bolt on them.

Given that the South lost its free labor, its infrastructure broke down. Now they had to essentially wipe their own worthless southern asses. The war turned and the rest is history.

Fuck off southern boy. The Yanks burned you down.

Why are southerners so fat?

Why do southerners vote republican?

why do southerners fuck their daughters?

These are part of the mysteries of Christ.

I agree with NMG, the car culture plays a big role. I drove to the store less than a mile away yesterday, I didn't realize what I was doing until I was there.

"Fat, dumb, and happy," isn't that the American Dream? Or one of them, anyway. I believe the alternative is "Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse."

Since their inception the suburbs have padded the bottom line of the automobile and oil industries. And most recently, they gave us a nice economic bubble which hasn't even finished collapsing yet. All because you idiots believe so fervently in some Norman Rockwell American dream, in a cookie cutter crackerbox house, doesn't matter where so long as it's far away from the minorities.

#51: don't know about minorities. But I sure as fuck don't want to live anywhere near you.

No one mentioned the fact that southern food originated in an agraian economy. Tell you what you find a fat farmer, it can't be done. Now you take all that good farming food and feed it to some desk jockey and bam a fat ass.

I remember as a kid watching my grandfather take a half a stick of butter and a couple spoonfuls of jelly and mixing it all together to dip is biscuts in, he would have a couple sausages on the side. Then he would go out and mend the fence, milk the cows, weed the field and come back in for a lunch that most people would call a 7 course meal then turn around and do more work around the farm.

He died skinny at 94.

Oh, I bet you do know about minorites, good sir.

Yea, we Irish are a serious minority. But thats nothing compared to those poor Italians, or Jews.

Oh well.

So a Mexican, a Jew and a Black go into a bar and walk up to the counter.

Bartender turns around and says

"Get the Fuck Outta Here!"

Gran Torino

cmon

your laughing

admit it

Reminds me of this classic:

Sammy Davis Jr. gets on a bus in the deep south. "Get to the back" the bus driver says.

"But I'm Jewish!" Sammy protests.

"Get off."

The South has a large population of blacks. Welfare + food stamps = fat. Even some of you South haters might be able to figure that out.

#43 | Posted by rebelnation

Sad but I have to agree poor blacks don't have access to healthy food because they are too expensive.

Lil Bouy,
I have no illusions as to who "won" the war. But the North didn't burn my family out. My ancestors held at Dalton and our farm was saved-- not many in Georgia were. My great grandfather had 4 so-called slaves, they never left. Their decendants still live near, and often visit my mother in the house OUR blood built before the North invaded.

You seem to take credit for something you had nothing to do with. If your family was of any worth during the war they probably paid the $300 fee to get out of the draft like most of the working class --better to let immigrants and "free" blacks do the fighting. Perhaps if southern generals would have imployed slash and burn crimes while the Army of Northern Virginia was running amuck for three years the war would have been much differnet?

Anyway, "southern boys" still make up the largest segment of US forces from grunts to Generals, and always have. Go to any American front around the world and you'll find a majority of "Southern boys" manning the line. The same spirit that whacked union fodder 3 to 1 with inferior equpiment and no state support still lives today.

From Andersonville to AbuGraib, Southerners have a proud history of conduct during wartime.

"But I'm Jewish!" Sammy protests.

"Get off."

#57 | Posted by snoofy at 2009-07-10 08:03 PM | Reply | Flag: fucking hilarious

Goes with the Territorry!

Hey being fat is just part of the price you southerners pay for being a "Bubba"!!!

yeah yeah

We know.

Everyone on the internet is fucking Sasquatch with a 14 inch cock.

#14 | Posted by r8rh8r at 2009-07-10 12:22 PM | Reply

Not true. I'm proudly 5'7" and 137 lbs!*

*And, I have a 16" cock.

"And, I have a 16" cock."

My bull isn't impressed.

*And, I have a 16" cock.

#63 | Posted by anton

My condolences to the cow you get your jollies with

upload.wikimedia.org

He wasn't very impressive, but that's google for you.

Krispy Kreme.

how about having a thread about rude ignorant yankee ass turkeys with nothing better to do than be predjudiced.

You can start that thread if you want. i'm sure a lot of people wlll comment.

On the other hand, who can help enjoying making fun of fat stupid bible-thumping Southern inbred fucks?

I don't give the south props for much but they do have the best food on the planet.

8-
probably about as many who enjoy belittling anorexic, foul-mouthed, racist, immoral, uppity, pud-pullers
*sarcasm*

(probably about as many who enjoy belittling anorexic, foul-mouthed, racist, immoral, uppity, pud-pullers)- spoken: Yankees

I don't give the south props for much but they do have the best food on the planet.

It's good but not that good

On the other hand, who can help enjoying making fun of fat stupid bible-thumping Southern inbred fucks?

#69 | Posted by moder8

How do you know you are at a hillbilly dinner?

All of the salad bowls have the words 'Cool Whip' on the side.

"All of the salad bowls have the words 'Cool Whip' on the side."

All of 'em?

Sheeeeit...that's uptown. None of ours matched.

#75 | Posted by Danforth

You still qualify if when the porch collapsed 20 dogs died in the process.

"You still qualify if when the porch collapsed 20 dogs died in the process."

Dayum...only 14. We wuz pooooor.

Why are Southerners so fat???

Because they don't eat "organic bat shit" and pretend as if they can somehow actually tolerate it.

"From Andersonville to AbuGraib, Southerners have a proud history of conduct during wartime."

Yep and they served caviar, red wine and fresh cheese while providing prompt medical care, at Camp Douglas.

Hail Satan.

The real question here is why can't the Northerners learn to appreciate fine Southern cooking?

And then the question of "why do 'Northerners' always have to attack and call names?" Could it be they don't have any penises to speak of and are compensating? ( Big words = small dick? )

the answer here is easy

this is an actual breakfast that I have had more than I care to admit

sausage

scrambled eggs

BISCUITS COVERED WITH CREAM GRAVY

pan cakes smothered with butter

either fried chicken or chicken fried steak COVERED

with cream gravy

but it was okay because I also had a slice of watermelon and a small grapefruit

I may die early but when I do I will KNOW WHAT breakfast is supposed to taste like.

DAMN

I forgot to list the huge pile of fried potato(e)s with cream gravy and ketchup..........

#59: I have a 4 star union general in my family tree. He was a Westpoint graduate, along with the traitor Robert E. Lee. And Sherman sure as fuck burned your state down.

#59: Oh you southern gentleman! Those 4 'so called slaves'??? I'm sure your sweet grandpappy kept em all so happy like well fed little pets that they neva wannnt ta leave!!

I call up my long ago neighbour (& once dad's best atheist friend) regularly who was a Westpointer (Al Haig was at the bottom of his class:>)

He's now more in interested in my latest dreams with my dad in the after life:>)

hear him whip the women just around midnite!!!

Hell, you guys are even changing clothes references cause you're so fat.

Pancho: our free market economy is targeting the fat stupid and lazy trying to make them feel better and net a profit in the process

So...fat equals stupid? I watched an episode of Cops last night...every perpetrator in the episode was quite thin..in good shape, could run from (but not outrun) the police....so, I guess its fair to assume that being thin equals being a criminal. Mindless generalization RULES...Cheers.

In reply to moder8....living in a big city, you're going to come across people of all builds who neglect personal hygeine, being obese doesn't make one smellier than the skinny, out of work bum who hasn't bathed or changed clothes in weeks and habitually urinates on himself. I personally think part of the problem is simple aesthetics...this ill culture has brainwashed us to believe that the only 'correct' body type is the sixpack abs greek god ideal. Which of course biologically speaking is utter bullshit. But we have a great many people who just don't want to look at anyone unlike themselves, its all about conformity to a cultural standard and marginalizing those who dare step outside of it. The attitude is sick.

Constantine, you are giving a serious answer to my question.

That is your first mistake. Pretty much every post on i have placed on this thread has been sarcastic/immature with the sole purpose of annoying and making regional fun of other posters on this thread. Calling them 'stupid fatties' was a hint.

Kind of like when one of us posts a thread questoning whether there is a scientific reason for rightwingers in general being so comparatively stupid.

But if you are the true Emperor Constantine (from a past life perhaps?) then do enlighten us on why only begottenism began with your saying so.

Hey, I only called the council....the bishops made the decisions, then i ratified em. besides that, Theodosius made the entire religion thing mandatory, i was happy letting the pagans do their thing.

or is it 'their thang?'

but your mom just was the real piece of work...only in the last few years have they found the true Moses hangout with 'em 10 sorties

Its not just Southerners. Has anybody seen those gigantic cowgirls in Plattsburgh / Burlington area in upstate Vermont?

Crisis

okay,
any of you have a daughter who competed as a cheerleader?

while my gymnast wife certainly doesn't qualify, holy cow there are some incredibly obesely fat mommas out there in the stands living vicariously thru their poor daughters

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Has anybody seen those gigantic cowgirls in Plattsburgh / Burlington area in upstate Vermont?

They're not fat they're big boned and them Morrisville/Stowe chicks are nymphos.

Higher obesity rates are definitely one of the negative consequences of Southern-style cuisine, but on the flip-side, the Southern States still retain some vestiges of an indigenous regional cuisine, rather than an ersatz one, which is what most metropolitans are now used to eating on a daily basis. But that type of urban-food-lifestyle also has negative consequences, like anorexia, plus mental disorders arising from lack of fat in the diet, so it's a toss-up, in my opinion. Also, quit picking on our Southern Buddhas! You make it sound like a freak-show! They're fat and happy! Southerners have always tended to be fat! Who gives a damn!!!....

Jesse: How can they be so fat in all that humidity? When I'm in the south it just bowls me over and I maintain a 6 foot 195 lb. If I had an extra 100 more I think I'd die!!

I love southern food. If I knew the world was gonna end tomorrow I'd make me some chicken fried steak, collard greens, cornbread and some fried Okra for my last meal. Doctors want you to eat rice cakes and other bland foods. I say fuck that. If only live to be 72 instead of 82 I can handle that.

My late grandmother in her very old age used to have a lady who cooked for her. This lady would turn each piece of okra individually as it cooked in the frying pan, using a fork. Sometimes I would be "lucky enough" to show up to visit Granny right at lunchtime. Needless to say, there was never any leftover okra.

Hiya, Booj! Since I don't really know the answer to that myself, as I'm a fitness addict, I would suggest that the next time you're in a Southern-culture-area, just go up and ask one of the "Buddhas" how they manage that particular feat, they probably won't understand the question totally, as they wouldn't have anything to compare it to, but any answer is sure to be interesting! Isn't it amazing, though, that this journalist would treat it like a freak-show? Her tone reminds me of Jerry Springer. These po'-folks whom she is describing don't deserve it, they didn't do anything wrong!........

It's simple. Education is not prised in the South at all.

Ignorance is a prized commodity in the South and learning about nutrition falls WAAAAAY down there on the list.

p.s. Preemptive 'Fuck Off'.

Jesse,
But the food is aweful goooooooooood!!!!!

And I agree with the marginalization.

Thanks, braw! That article is definitely a product of prejudice, I'm amazed that it was published in that form, they should have had her re-write it, she was just wilding on Southerners, it seems to me, it's easy to make fun of people, it's alot harder to try and understand them............

It's simple. Education is not prised in the South at all.

Ignorance is a prized commodity in the South and learning about nutrition falls WAAAAAY down there on the list.

#105 | Posted by COMMONSENSE

Care to post your educational feats Copernicus?

Again another ass goblin troll that generalizes the entire region.

I would take the south over any region in the states.

I find nothing remotely appealing in the over crowded shit holes in the northeast or southwest.The Midwest is replete with pedophiles and mass murderers. The only area remotely appealing is the Seattle area especially the San Juans.

Why are northerners so rude?

Some questions beg to be asked and then answered.

Sluggo,their mommas just didn't raise them with any manners, bless their hearts.

Why are northerners so rude?

Because they're not southerners.

And, maybe it is all of the 'fat yanks' that are moving South and clogging up the stats..!!!

With a 16 inch'er, you should be able to screw yourself...

it's all about beating the baptists to the buffet on sunday after church~! LAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Awwww.....Dry those eyes.......I see some tender rednecks here who will bash the north all day long but heavens forbid someone should say anything about the south and then it's time for the tears.

#113 | Posted by spurr55 at 2009-07-12 01:55 PM

With a 16 inch'er, you should be able to screw yourself...

Care to post your educational feats Copernicus?

Again another ass goblin troll that generalizes the entire region.

I would take the south over any region in the states.

I find nothing remotely appealing in the over crowded shit holes in the northeast or southwest.The Midwest is replete with pedophiles and mass murderers. The only area remotely appealing is the Seattle area especially the San Juans.

#108 | Posted by Legio at 2009-07-11 11:21 PM | Reply | Flag

OH OH OH....let me guess. If I list them, and ANYONE in the South has a better education, that will be your ammo to say that my generalization BASED IN FACT is all wrong, right?

Sorry, but facts are not your friend.

Why are southerners so fat?

They have jobs and can afford food.

Is it the Southern States that are in fianncial crisis? Gosh, being a dumb rebel seems to leave you a lot better off than being a smart Oregonian, or a smart Michigander, or a smart Californian.

You damyankees are just too highfalutin to make do. I'll bet none of you never ate no road kill. You'all is too fancified to eat good grub. And you folks are so egotistical that you spend more time thinking about how you look and worrying about how to live a couple of years longer that you forget about living now, enjoying a good tasty meal, having a couple of beers, and watching a ball game or NASCAR race.

If you really want to see folks eating fatty food, go to Hawaii or some other South Pacific areas, and see the folks gobbling down that Spam. Compared to some places, Southerners are gourmets.

I heared that the Yankees now even learned how to eat bait from the Japanese.

Shucks, you anticipated me with the food/job thing, while I was typing. Succinct. And true.

"With a 16 inch'er, you should be able to screw yourself..."

Only if you have Peyronie's Disease and it's bent the right way.

Two questions:

1 - How does one go about contracting Peyronie's Disease?

2 - How does one go about achieving a 16 incher?

This is for research purposes only obviously