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from a foreigners perspective :-)

#341
Bob Lee (QSC) said:
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

E. B. White is said to have come up with this.
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Yanks!! :p
 
#342
Those "fattest cities in the country" lists aren't actually based on measurements of obesity, but rather on things like the number of fitness clubs per 100k population, the density of chain fast food restaurants, the percentage of people who walk to work, and so forth. As a social scientist in training, I can tell you right now that none of those are especially good instruments for obesity. To wit: Los Angeles is considered a "healthy" city. :hmm:

I am from the exurban fringes of Chicago and my folks live near the WI border now, so I've seen lots of fat people, and let me tell you: I have never seen so many incredibly fat people as I did when I lived in Koreatown (which is actually 85% Latino) and rode the bus every day. Central Americans living in Los Angeles have got to be the nation's fattest group. I can't tell you how many times I saw Salvadoran and Guatemalan women with square torsos (i.e. with the diameter of the waist equal to the length between the hip and the shoulder) and butts so huge that they took up two seats.
 
#344
jkritchey said:
BMC that is absolutely hysterical!!!

Where does one find your writing, other than bass forums??
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I can't take credit for that. It's been kicking around for years. All I remembered of it is "Linda's Legal Lip remover", thinking that was hysterical. So, everytime I want to send it to people, I pop that into Google.
 
#346
Peter McFerrin said:
Those "fattest cities in the country" lists aren't actually based on measurements of obesity, but rather on things like the number of fitness clubs per 100k population, the density of chain fast food restaurants, the percentage of people who walk to work, and so forth. As a social scientist in training, I can tell you right now that none of those are especially good instruments for obesity. To wit: Los Angeles is considered a "healthy" city. :hmm:

I am from the exurban fringes of Chicago and my folks live near the WI border now, so I've seen lots of fat people, and let me tell you: I have never seen so many incredibly fat people as I did when I lived in Koreatown (which is actually 85% Latino) and rode the bus every day. Central Americans living in Los Angeles have got to be the nation's fattest group. I can't tell you how many times I saw Salvadoran and Guatemalan women with square torsos (i.e. with the diameter of the waist equal to the length between the hip and the shoulder) and butts so huge that they took up two seats.
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I was in rural Louisiana over the Thanksgiving holiday.

We went shopping in the local stores.

I could not find any article of clothing small enough to fit me, and I'm a bit overweight, myself. There was nothing under a size 12 for women, or a 34 waist for men. I couldn't even find a medium t-shirt.

They say that Louisiana is the fattest state in the Union, and, based on the merchandise available, I can see why.

Cherie
 
#347
Kael said:
According to the www.CDC.gov

60% of Illinois adults are overweight or obese. (CDC BRFSS, 2004)
22% of non-Hispanic white adults, 33% of non-Hispanic black adults, and 22% of Hispanic adults in Illinois are obese. (CDC BRFSS, 2004)


61% of Oklahoma adults are overweight or obese. (CDC BRFSS, 2004) 23% of non-Hispanic white adults, 29% of non-Hispanic black adults, and 27% of Hispanic adults in Oklahoma are obese. (CDC BRFSS and OK BRFSS, 2002)

Ha, ha we're fatter than y'all. Although I'm not sure why I'm touting the fact that I'm surrounded by lard butts.


edit: Texas has us both beat

63% of Texas adults are overweight or obese. (CDC BRFSS, 2004)
23% of non-Hispanic white adults, 37% of non-Hispanic black adults, and 29% of Hispanic adults in Texas are obese. (CDC BRFSS, 2004)
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Houston was the fattest city in the country for quite a while. I think, pre-Katrina, NOLA beat 'em, though.

Cherie
 
#348
Kael said:
Yep, +1. Yankee implies (at least in these parts) a know-it-all carpetbagger who couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper sack. It definitely has negative connotations.

It isn't just the northeners doing the white trash parties. I played a "white trash bash" benefit show here is OKC last summer. Complete with Boones Farm, Nattie Light, two twenty foot beer bhongs hanging from the roof of the club (outdoor gig) and jello shots chucked off the roof to the crowd (where they were either caught or smacked them in the face).

You can tell what area of the country a person is from by how they fix their dressing. I've met people from up north that put pine nuts in their dressing (ick, pine nuts?). Here in Oklahoma, it is pretty common to have oysters in the dressing. The idea being that oysters used to be rare here (landlocked state) 70 or 80 years ago. People would cut up oysters and put them in the dressing for Christmas of Thanksgiving so that the whole family could say that they had eaten oysters.

Oh, and brown gravy is perfectly acceptable on holidays with turkey. Assuming, of course, you cook the giblets into it.

I swear, you yankees just don't know how to cook. ;)
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Who you callin' a Yankee? I'm a native of the Great State Of Texas, and all my people were from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. I did marry a Yankee though. But he was raised in Houston, and knows how to act. ;)

They put oysters in the dressing in Louisiana, too. They're alright. But I like mine better. I put extra livers and giblets in mine. And I don't fix brown gravy. Ever, unless its in a pork or beef roast. Good, white gravy with plenty of giblets, stirred until it has the consistency of satin.

I've had "stuffing". No, thanks, they can keep it. Give me good cornbread dressing any day!

Cherie :smug:
 
#359
mike_v_s said:
Yeah. I HATE trying to find a decent restaurant in New Orleans. :hmm:

Mike
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For why, cher? Is it all touristy food?

I feel the same way about Tex-Mex places. I can tolerate Taco Cabana, but Taco Bell should be sent to Food Purgatory for the nastiness they serve up. And these "nuveau Tex-Mex" places are awful. They take perfectly nice food and over-dress it. Its like taking a stone-cold biker dude as your date to the country club soiree. Yeah, you can take him to that fancy party, but he'll be a lot more fun in a good beer bar.

Give me a good, small, family-owned tacqueria *any* day.

Cherie :)
 

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