Does Southern Cooking Produce the Worst Obesity? by Peter Lumpkins

We southerners often get dubbed as lard-belly fat boys because of our unhealthy obsession with southern fried chicken, hog jowls, salt pork, ham-n-biscuits, sweet potato pie, buttery cornbread, and three-pound BBQ sandwiches.  I mean, come on.  Can we not enjoy any of the pleasures of life as Christians?

Well now all us southern, middle-aged tubbies can say a hearty ‘in-yo-face’ to those who have wrongly discriminated against us for our greasy spoons.  I’m referring to the latest Gallup findings which list the 10 most obese metropolitan areas in the country. And, contra what our fiercest anti-southern critics have been bleating for years now, guess what metropolitan areas are surprisingly absent from the top ten?

Take a look for yourself:

The next time some yahoo from the north or west—not to mention the cool-urban-himbo from hotlanta—starts yapping about all the fat in fried potatoes and cracklin cornbread, just tell them, “Gallup says, ‘ain’t so bad...ain’t so bad.’”

With that, I am…

Peter

READ GALLUP'S ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE

Comments

[Bart Barber]

Well, Peter, it's high time that you wrote about something really important.

:]

Just be careful what you say about cornbread and buttermilk in this thread.

[selahV]

I was just talking about going to a nifty restaurant here in Oklahoma that serves Fried Green Tomatoes. mmmmmmn, mmmm. I shouldn't, but this post sure makes it easier to justify it. :) selahV

[peter]

Bart,

Well, may I say for all to benefit: Buttermilk and cornbread hain't ne'er been better!

SelahV,

Go for it girl!

I prefer fired okra myself, along with fried potatoes, fried corn, fried cornbread fritters, a couple of slices of onion, and, of course, swee tee.

With that, I am...
Peter

[chris Gilliam]

got my gums slapping! Put some cracklins in that cornbread. Slap on 1/2 dozn thos 'green maters, pass tem butter beans with that fatback, gimme a fat fried pork chop and Son we can talk theology all day!!

[peter]

I heared, you Chris. Of course, now that you are not in the REAL south anymore, I suspect all you can do is hope. :^)

Hope you are well, bro.

With that, I am...
Peter

[David R. Brumbelow]

Hard hitting facts and evidence. That's what I like about this site.
David R. Brumbelow