We're Out of Milk, Just Use Gravy On Those Frosted Flakes...

"More Than One in Four American Adults Now Obese"

This really doesn't bode well for the future of America...

Why is it that whenever they show show a fat person in the media they are:
a) Always alone or shot in some way to seem like an outcast?
b) Always eating something and it's usually take-out or fast food of some kind?
c) The photo is taken at the most cruel angles in order to get the maximum fat roll content?

I thought these statements were interesting:

"Why is the South so heavy? The traditional Southern diet — high in fat and fried food — may be part of the answer..."

"The South also has a large concentration of rural residents and black women — two groups that tend to have higher obesity rates..."

"In today's America, poor people tend to be obese: The cheapest foods tend to be calorie-heavy, and stores offering healthier, and more expensive, food choices often are not found in poor neighborhoods..."

I can hear Al Sharpton's computer keyboard clicking away constructing his next public outcry of racism and demonization of the southern black community. Actually, I would lean towards agreeing with him. While the statistics are probably true, taken in context, I think they are a little biased.

In relation to the number of black people that are in the south, the rates of obesity are higher yes, but the overall number of fat black women compared to fat white women is most likely significantly lower. So, I ask, what's their excuse. They say that the blacks are fat because of basically "fried food and no money to buy healthier items", so what's the reason for fat white folk? If they have the stores with the healthy food and the money to buy it, why the hell are they busting at the seems also?

Seems to me that the reason that everyone is fat is because we stuff our faces with crap and are to lazy to work it off. That's why I gained some poundage. Not because I'm "poor" (who isn't really nowadays) or "ethnic", it's because I got lazy and decided that I wanted a pizza and some beer rather than that grilled chicken salad and iced tea. Simple as that.

So what do we need to do to overcome this? Get the fuck off the couch, put down the fork and get to running or some other activity that sucks ass but slims you down. I have actually started to go back to the gym and have now logged 9 miles on the elliptical trainer in the past 3 days. Not where I was when I started the pizza diet but definitely above my expectations. When I get back to 4 miles a day and lifting weights again, I will be happy with the effort.

And it does get easier as you go along, as cliched as that may sound. You just have to suffer for a bit to reap the reward... and suffer I am right now...

He Gets Crabby At Dinner...Our 200th Post!

"Wife: Man who died didn't order crab dish: No criminal charges will be filed"

This one is a hard one to decide. I like Ruby Tuesday Restaurants and have only had good experiences there.

Here's my take on this one: One of 2 things could have happened here. The customer ordered the entree without reading what exactly was in the dish or the server wrote down the wrong entree and keyed it into the order system.

It couldn't be a kitchen error because the food was prepared according to what was printed on the ticket. So it's not like they made the wrong dish. It can't be an expediting error as the correct food, according to the ticket, was made and brought out to the table. So it had to be server error if this is going to work.

I have seen this many times when I was serving back in the day. The customer orders something and then when it is brought out they either don't like the look of it, have changed their minds or want something free and they will tell you that you brought the wrong food out. It's very annoying and happens more than you would think. Then again, I've also seen servers forget what the hell the customer ordered because they are preoccupied with something else and punch in the wrong item just to get the ticket going. So this is a tough one. But in this case I would think that the customer probably ordered the wrong thing.

They should be looking into a few things though, like how many complaints has this server had in the past for wrong orders? Is this a pattern they have? Was everyone else's order correct at the table? And if the guy was allergic to shellfish, why in the hell did he NOT smell the crab in the entree. Crab has a very distinctive odor and your average person could reasonably discern that there was something "fishy" with the food.

Bottom line is that the server, even though they did repeat the order to the customer, should have pointed out that there was shellfish in that particular dish during the ordering phase. Just as they should point out if peanut oil was used in the preparation of a dish. Common sense...

Side Note:

This is our 200th post! I didn't think I would make it this far!

Why Do We Allow The Retarded To Conceal Weapons?...

"Child, 4, Shoots Self at Sam's Club With Grandma's Gun"

Granny Oakley's gun...

Why does this not shock me? All the elements are there: 1) In the South 2) gun toting granny 3) unsupervised rug rat 4) Wal-Mart...

Why does a fucking grandma have a gun in her purse? And most importantly, why the hell is she letting her grand kid rummage around in said purse knowing there's a loaded gun inside? The only thing that would surprise me about this story is if the grandma had more than one tooth in her mouth and if the baby had anything other than soda-pop in it's bottle (yeah I know the kid is 4 years old- it's the South! I bet it still wears diapers)...