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West Virginia broke away from the rebellious south to fuck its sister.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this. Just wanted to make an incest joke.

The US is an interesting study.  It's one of the only places where poverty and obesity seem to correlate at least reasonably well.  Our poor people have enough money to eat, but nutritious foods are expensive. 

I'm not surprised at all that Colorado is the leanest state.  People move there largely for the lifestyle (skiing, hiking, etc.)

Somebody get Haemish here! He must be made aware of this shocking new development!!!

Oldy but goody...

What do people do in Louisiana during Halloween?




Pump kin.

He'll be too surprised to respond.  I'm certain of it.

Haemish is so thin because everyone else in Mississippi eats his food.

We're number one! We're number one!   :woot:

...oh, wait. This is a *bad* thing, isn't it?

Wow, I had no idea my state was so fat. I guess I don't hang out at the iHop often enough.

It's the buffet stupid.

Just go to the mall, or worse yet, Wal*Mart. 

I swear, one of these days I need to take a camera in to the local Wal*Mart and shoot pics before getting tossed out, because nobody ever believes that Cinci/Northern Kentucky is obesity central.  And yeah, it's all due to what Nebu said.  Food is cheap if you eat shit.  Cookies?  $0.99 for two dozen on special.  Apples $1.49 a pound - about 3 apples.  Hamburger helper, $1.29 and $2.99 per pound of shit beef.  :oh_i_see:

throw in the advent of air conditioning and a family tradition of big dinners and breakfasts (originally because you were working in the fields all day) and there you go.

Buffets are the 3rd part of the Holy Mississippi Trinity. The first part is fundamentalist/judgemental Protestantism, the second is high school football and the third is greasy artery clogging buffets.

Having been to buffets here, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. No matter how much of a fat tub of lard you are, you will NEVER be the fattest fucker at a Mississippi buffet. NEVER.

Now see, it's that kind of bold statement that requires you to take some pictures next time you are at the buffet. One of the food available, and a few of the more rotund patrons consuming it.

My family in Miss always puts out a buffet. For every meal. Last time I was there I woke up and  :ye_gods: breakfast buffet!

Eggs bacon sausage hash browns and biscuits all covered in  sawmill gravy.

That's the south for you :)

I hate to admit it, and thank god that stuff isn't readily available in Seattle city proper, but I love me some southern breakfast diners/buffets.

The All-Star special at Waffle House is about all the breakfast I can handle, but it sho is guud!

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Ugh, grits.  I can't even eat in a place that serves grits, the smell makes me puke.

--Dave

Damned yankee.

I think I speak for the rest of the state, but...

I'd stay the hell out of Georgia if you feel that way.

I heard Australia is now the fattest country in the world, but I can't find any fancy state breakdown.

Edit: A recent search just indicates we are "on track" to be so soon. Looks like I can't trust the news on crappy commerical radio.

This depressed me. I can eat buckets of grits.

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It's from Wikipedia so take it as you will.

That picture says it all... damn, talk about a bucket-o-carbs for breakfast. 

My stomach can take two lowfat yogurts (200cal) OR a protein shake (300 cal).  That plate would put me into shock. 

Label it NSFW first please.  :uhrr:

I am biased by having a lot of breakfasts at greasy spoon with my grandfather (the Maine branch, not the Mississipp). I like an omelet loaded with veggies (plus a bottle of frank's red hot), ham, bacon, toast (Elwood style), and a massive serving of home fries, hopefully with peppers and onions and more frank's red hot and ketchup.

But I don't normally eat breakfast at all. Usually when I'm on vacation and I hike it all off by lunch, eat a sandwich on a mountain peak somewhere.

I do like the occasional full Engilsh, couple of fried eggs, sausages, bacon, baked beans, black pudding, hash brown and toast. I figure I'm still young enough to enjoy this every now and again, couldn't bear the thought of having that and lunch as well though.

The full English rules. I love that one aspect of british culinary culture.

West Virgina, 3 million people, 5 last names.


Srsly, your doing it wrong.

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No likey frenchy toast.

Pancakes, yes.
Waffles, yes.
French Toast, no.

Jebus, it's everything I can do not to try and eat my monitor after looking at MrBW pics....

Ugh. I need a trip to the cracker barrel.

I love all breakfast foods from all cultures.  Except those that contain melon.

I hate melon.

Why such small bottles of maple syrup?

There is no place for you on this earth. Good bye.


Because its warm, and just for you.  :heart:

Breakfast food is about all i eat, like, ever.

Health reasons mostly. Maple Syrup is full of calories.

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Yes, that's sausage AND red eye gravy with that country ham, biscuits grits and eggs.

and after a light lunch of Chicken and dumplings and veggie plate of turnip greens creamed corn and some great northerns seasoned with a big hamhock... (Your cornbread and sweet tea are sadly not pictuered)

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Have some fried dill pickles as a snack - ranch dressing/dip not pictured

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Now that is  eating southern :)

Sigh. The only thing I miss from the south is the food. And now I miss it even more. NAY. I SHANT GO BACK. NO.

sigil, restaurant or home?

If restaurant, what one?

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SIGIL. WHERE IS THAT I MUST KNOW NOW. 

Root canal be damned I'm going there as soon as you answer.

The pics came from roadfood's review of Blue and White, a place up in Tunica. I've been there when I would eat such things and it was good, although not exceptional, however such fare has to be truly special  and just good is miles better than what you'd find anywhere else outside of the south.


Now, I'm  far more conscientious about what foes into my body. Tonight its raw veggies with a nice spicy hummus I prepare with some grilled marinated chicken.

Snake, White House up in Bucks is just as good.  maybe not both gravies but about the same.

Further edit.

Tiny Diny  is your best bet in Mobile. although there were some great soul food places  in Prichard, but you know you'd look funny going there :)

Believe it or not, I used to go to Maddie's on Telegraph that was an old train car.  Don't know if it's still there.  And a few of us go to the Elks Lodge over on the Afrikatown Bridge on White Man's Wednesdays every so often.

Tiny Diny is so overrated, IMHO.

That explains a lot  :awesome_for_real:

LOL.

Well.  You'd have to know the area.  We (as in white people) are allowed there once a month.  I'm not kidding.

Nevertheless, it's the best bbq in town.

They should call it Reparation Wednesdays.

Sigil, thank you for reminding me why I hated the Gulf Coast.

Wouldn't that be slightly backwards in this situation?

What, you don't tip waiters?

:rimshot:

Can I laugh at this?  Can I get an official ruling from the Committee?

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Or even better:

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Have you actually ever had breakfast in Asia before? Some of those items are a bit...odd.

Phô is a fucking tasty breakfast I'll have you know :drill:

Hell yeah it is.  Probably the only breakfast food outside of cereal I actually eat.  I just... cannot stand southern breakfast foods.  My mother-in-law dragged us to places all over Texas and it was just... my heart...

Well it served a purpose once upon a time. Now it's kind of pointless to eat like that. Breakfast now is yogurt  with homemade granola or an egg and some turkey backon, with juice

Cottage cheese and a glass of tomato juice.

Or maybe a ham, cheese and mushroom omelet.

Or a bowl of Kashi.

although in honor of this thread this morning was a heaping helping of sauteed onions, a petite  (4 oz) trimmed  sirloin and  an egg.

 :eat:

Huh? I'm confused. Pho is Vietnemese Noodle soup, with Beef or other unidentifiable meat products. Are we talking bout the same thing as being a breakfast food?

Oatmeal and blueberries.  It will cure what ails you.

I'm a big fan of biscuits and sausage gravy.  And grits with butter, salt and pepper.

Goddamn, sometimes it sucks living in New England. :sad:

What if oatmeal itself is the thing which ails someone?

Texas is not southern. Thats a whole diffrent world over there. Please do not try to lump anything Texas does into southern culture.

Thanks.

Boah, the food pictured here could sustain a medium sized african village for a week ;-)

No wonder the average american is obese. It looks fantastically tasty though.

I thought oats were okay for gluten free diets.  Not even pure oats?    :ye_gods:  Substitute vodka!   :oh_i_see:

Coming from California to Memphis really played hell on my waiste line.  I've always like the "southern" cuisine that my family cooks, but since living here I've found that the insane amounts of deep frying that occurs in this city is sickening.  I try to avoid it for the most part now but i'm pretty sure that breathing the air alone is worth ~100 calories.  So now i stick to my yummy ribs...i know its not much better but my brain says its better since its not deep fried... :uhrr:

Stay away from Glasgow then

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The infamous deep-fried Mars bar. (http://www.recipezaar.com/43463)

Was in the UK a number of years ago.  I can handle the deep fried stuff occasionally...hell i actually really like it.  It was more that 90+% of the diet here is deep fried.  As far as odd things deep fried  Twinky >>> candy bar

Apparently it's not recommended.  Vodka and blueberries?  I can handle that.  Two of my favorite foods!

This thread makes me hungry.

I am going to laugh for days on end when people start keeling over from eating that crap instead of real bacon. Whatever chemicals they use to make turkey look and taste like pig can't be better for you than the alternative. Which of course is crispy pig bacony goodness.

Makes me slightly nauteous.  I can never eat a large breakfast.  My stomach needs some time to get it's act together in the morning.

Even if I could...  :ye_gods: 

Breakfast is hands down my favorite meal of the day. My fiance is the opposite and probably exactly like you. I hop up in the morning ready to eat and she just looks at me with that "you're nucking futs" look that I get far more often than I feel I deserve. She'll eat breakfast... at least an hour later. And never as much as I do. Mmmmm.... loves me some breakfast!

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The eggs are looking at me!

I misspelled it and left it as a symbol of it never being true bacon, but it  is just smoked and cured salted white and dark meat

I am not a morning person, but breakfast foods are just the bestest ever. Eggs with grits and bacon or sausage and pancakes or waffles or french toast...

FUCK I AM SO HUNGRY.

That was mostly my latent disdain towards people I know who go proseletyze on how bacon is carcinogenic and demand the foodservice stock turkey bacon for health reasons, yet the turkey bacon they want is the stuff that literally looks (minus the fat), has the texture of, and tastes like old fashioned bacon. Even though the list of weird food additives on the side of the box should send anyone who is concerned about carcinogens off the deep end.

Breakfast for dinner is better than breakfast for breakfast. 

I can not find Grits in Canada.

I have looked for the past year.  No Grits in Toronto, Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Vancouver and Halifax.

Also, no Scrapple.

Very true.

My wife can't stand Scrapple, but I'm okay with that.  It means there's more for me on the rare occasions I allow myself to buy it.

It's a traditional Vietnamese breakfast as well and with a healthy helping of chilli sauce it really wakes you up  :drill:

Nothing better for a hangover than Pho. That's why I've always considered it breakfast food.

Doing a little Vietnamese is a great way to start the morning. 

Unless it is your live-in nanny.

And why is that not as good?

It's mostly for breakfast and lunch.  My Vietnamese friends (who grew up in Vietnam) all told me the same thing, not for dinner (but doable for lunch).