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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Food Meanwhile in the Bible Belt

Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:02 AM

Gluttony is a sin, right?

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Gee, maybe folks in the Bible Belt should worry a bit less about what I'm putting in my mouth and bit more about what they're putting in their own.

 

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Wow. I thought Kiala was slow with the "news." This chart made the rounds last year. Dan, shouldn't you be attending a Breedlove smackdown/Sam sing-a-long or something? Or maybe that's why you missed this in the first place.
Posted by outta_state_"reporting"_sux on June 25, 2009 at 11:50 AM · Report
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What a stereotyping non-sequitor
Posted by D on June 25, 2009 at 11:54 AM · Report
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Maybe, but notice that yr friends in California fall towards the lean end of the scale. What's the point again? Stupid.
Posted by jake on June 25, 2009 at 12:48 PM · Report
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Five years ago Southerners were as fat as Northwesterners are now. And in five years we'll be as fat as they are now.
Posted by ragold on June 25, 2009 at 12:48 PM · Report
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Yo D,
Using a stereotype to satirize a stereotype is not a non-sequitor.

It's called I-R-O-N-Y
Posted by spartacus on June 25, 2009 at 1:54 PM · Report
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Colorado is bible belt central, dumbshit.
Posted by Midwestern dumbshit on June 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM · Report
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Mississippi is a bible belt-and-suspenders; Colorado is really more of a bible ammo belt.
Posted by msm on June 25, 2009 at 5:06 PM · Report
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Um, anyway... I don't really know how to follow those last hate-crimers comments but I wanted to agree with Dan anyway. It's amazing how much those self righteous religious maniacs come down on people who casually use drugs and/or alchohol when shitty food is killing them just as fast if not faster and making them miserable, oh yeah! That's why they are so mad too! (faggot?)
Posted by jfk on June 25, 2009 at 9:31 PM · Report
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You'll note that it mirrors almost exactly the poverty of the United States:

http://www.cdc.gov/PCD/issues/2007/oct/ima…
Posted by The Immortal Goon on June 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM · Report

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