This blogging is part of my ongoing attempt, in my own small, itsy bitsy way, to encourage Americans, or at least the 3 who read this blog, to draw down on the Strategic Fat Preserve by eating less.I came across an interesting Newsgroup posting by an American who had visited Europe and was shocked by how skinny the Europeans are. I'll copy that below.
But, first I need to tell you that that is Gar the Texan in the photo, in Booger Red's Saloon in the Fort Worth Stockyards, having a Buffalo Butt beer with his wife, Madlen. Gar the Texan met Madlen in Germany. When I met Madlen she was a thin, beautiful young thing. Now, after just a short exposure to both America's food culture and Gar as a husband, the dear girl has greatly contributed to the Strategic Fat Preserve by becoming one of the Balloon People. Shocking.
And now the Newsgroup posting:
"After 17 days, 3600 miles, and 10 countries later, we returned home, and the first thing we noticed was how many fat people there were in North America, compared to Europe. Even in the Bavarian Alps region, an area noted for jolly chubby Germans, the % of fat people was not even close to the average American town/city... At breakfast, we noticed that our fellow travellers, all European, never took more than they needed... a croissant, an egg, just enough till lunch...the portions at the restaurants were not as big, the meat cuts at the supermarkets were smaller...but still, everyone looked so healthy and slim!!! In fact, I think they quietly shoot ugly people in Europe...everyone looked so damn good! In fact, the only fat people we saw were...well...American tourists pouring out of a bus, loud enough to be heard in Mosquito Neck, Iowa (a really really small place) (grin)"
Durango Texas Comment: Regarding the Newsgrouper's comment that he thought "they quietly shoot ugly people in Europe." It's a little known bit of history that, in addition to the known victims the Nazis sent to Death Camps in Hitler's attempt to creat a Master Race of Aryan Perfection, ugly people were also sent to the death camps. I don't know how Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Goring or Joesph Goebbels escaped that fate.
Read the Newsgroup Posting in its entirety here. The writer also comments about how liberated Europeans are in other areas, as compared to us repressed, unliberated Americans.
