Fattest State in the Nation? (Page 2)

Maybe it was the only food left that had not been served fried in Mississippi.

It is a dill pickle.  Sliced thin, battered and fried.   wish I had one now...... 

oh yeah and the lunch place sells french fries covered with gravy.   ohhhh.......  

should I go on?  What can I say, we eat weird stuff.  

I just remembered there is NOTHING to do there.  Yes, there is recreation for the ids (mostly soccer/baseball/football).  No bike trails, no bike lanes.  There is a pool with lanes though.  Decent kids swim team.   I'm afraid to ride my bike there.    I think someone here rode his bike on the coast visiting family and training for IMFL, don't know how that went. 

edit: please note the last paragraph is aimed at the coast only, not the rest of the state where thre is the Natchez Trail and stuff.....

Southern states tend to be at the top of the list because of air conditioning.  Our AC runs maybe 7 months of the year, and that's far less than most in our city.  Too hot to go outside, so you sit around all comfortable in front of the TV and eat!  At 3 lbs a month that's 21 lbs of weight gain a year.  Without AC we'd sweat like pigs, but not eat like pigs!

I suspect that lots of northerners experience the same in the winter, but the nasty weather (3 months?) only lets you gain maybe 9 lbs a year...