Fattest city designation lands Evansville (Indiana) on British TV program

Evansville Courier & Press ^ | 1/11/12 | Julie Rosenbaum-Engelhardt

[Libloather]

Fattest city designation lands Evansville on British TV program
Result of Gallup poll
By Julie Rosenbaum-Engelhardt
Evansville Courier & Press
Posted January 11, 2012 at 9:23 p.m.

EVANSVILLE — The ranking of residents of the Evansville metropolitan area as the most obese in America in a recent Gallup poll has lured a British television crew to the city.

The crew has been in town this week at Deaconess Hospital and other locations to film an episode of the British show "Supersize vs. Superskinny."

Hosted by Dr. Christian Jessen, the show features information about dieting and extreme eating lifestyles. Its goal is to highlight the impact obesity has on patient health and the U.S. health care system.

Roger Oldham, director of "Supersize vs. Superskinny," said obesity is a problem in England, too.

"We're not too far behind," Oldham said.

[1010RD]

You just can’t win. The ability to deliver massive quantities of calories for just pennies is a sign of wealth. Our poor have so much plenty they can just sit around all day guessing who’s the daddy with Springer.

[moose07]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding

Black pudding in the United Kingdom is generally made from pork blood and a relatively high proportion of oatmeal; in the past it was occasionally flavoured with pennyroyal, differing from continental European versions in its relatively limited range of ingredients and reliance on oatmeal and barley instead of onions to absorb the blood.[3] It can be eaten uncooked, but is often grilled, fried or boiled in its skin.

In the UK, black pudding is considered a delicacy in the Black Country, where it can trace its origins back hundreds of years. It is to a lesser extent associated with Lancashire and particularly with the town of Bury, where it is sometimes boiled and served with malt vinegar out of paper wrapping.[4] In the remainder of the country, and especially in the south, it is usually served sliced and fried or grilled as part of a traditional full breakfast

[Aria]

Blood and oatmeal...LOL...one thing I can’t imagine combined with one thing I really don’t like so much. LOL Well, apparently it doesn’t kill ya.

Thanks for the info.

[WKUHilltopper]

Grew up across the river from ya in Henderson. Burgoo is pretty good there too!

[oblomov]

...and fiddlers (known everywhere else in the world as fried catfish)!

[43north]

Blood pudding is just that - pudding with blood added. The presence of hemoglobin turns it jet black. I saw it in the breakfast buffet line right next to the blood sausage and I went looking for yogurt and cereal. Thank God there WAS yogurt and cereal!

[Aria]

I think blood pudding is right up their with eels in the list of things I will NEVER ever eat.

[9YearLurker]

What’s wrong with kebabs?

[Caulkhead]

As an Englishman, it's odd to see Americans (who claim to love their steak rare) afraid of a little blood and moaning our toilet paper isn't soft enough for their delicate little derrieres! :D You can't beat a few slices of black pud on a full english - far better than all that sugar-coated rubbish you get over there for breakfast, proper man food! :)

[HoosierDammit]

I’ve never been lucky enough to have occasion to sample a full English or Irish, but man, that looks tasty! I’m intrigued by the black pudding...

I’m with you - pancakes, donuts, and the like for breakast are just too much sugar, and I feel like crap for the whole day afterward.

[Caulkhead]

Black pudding just tastes like a finely ground ordinary sausage with a hint of spice and a dry consistency - best fried in bacon fat. It’s a bit like a hamburger or hotdog - best eaten without dwelling on what it contains! :)

[WKUHilltopper]

Ahhh...yes, the fiddlers! Quit making me hungry! LOL!

[WKUHilltopper]

“As an Englishman, it’s odd to see Americans (who claim to love their steak rare) afraid of a little blood and moaning our toilet paper isn’t soft enough for their delicate little derrieres! :D”

That’s hilarious! Thanks for making my day! LOL

[Aria]

Yikes! That’s a HUGE meal. I think you’d need a nap after eating that.

But I agree with you about the sugary stuff...blech!

[wardaddy]

there are a lot of fat folks in the US

the UK must be way fatter than my time there for a period in 1987 when the people were normal sized though not as thin as the French

here in Middle Tn, in some lower income counties I would wager 70% of women are overweight and maybe 40% technically obese...say 50 pounds overweight

and about 10-15% are morbidly fat...as in waddling with aprons...amazing

men run the fat thing at about 1/3 the rate the women do...at most...maybe even 25% the rate

blacks and latinos...well..to be kind..it's near universal...non fat black or latino women are the exception not the rule

in richer areas like Belle Meade or Green Hills...not many fat women

out here in Williamson county...highest cost adjusted mean income county in the USA...a bit more chunkies but not an epidemic like elsewhere

I traveled out west this summer extensively...higher altitude less weight...easy enough

and once again minorities ..which means basically Indians and latinos in the high west..who are hard to tell apart at times...heavy and the women much heavier

whites in the mountain west though heavier than 40 years ago were not as heavy as southerners or midwesterners but altitude does help...no doubt

time I lived in Bogota was the thinnest I ever was...6'5” and 177 pounds

oh well...the health problems coming from all this are just off the charts

bones, pancreas, kidneys and cardiac and ...almost for sure at these weights...diabetes

sad that in the land of plenty there is just too damn much and folks have lost discipline meanwhile folks truly do go hungry in places...not like before but still there is hunger and children die from it...most often exacerbated by war

[wardaddy]

I lived in northwest London for almost a year and never had a full breakfast like that...I did eat Fish and Chips a lot...a little stand right on the Thames near Parliament in Whitehall?

anyhow...what is the red stuff on the beans?

I like blood pudding....blood sausage actually...we do some here too...Cubans have it as do South Louisiana where it’s called boudin noir

i’m hungry now

[yank in the UK]

“here in middle TN”
Dude! I was born in Old Hickory, and lived in Hendersonville for 29 years.

[yank in the UK]

“here in middle TN”
Dude! I was born in Old Hickory, and lived in Hendersonville for 29 years.

[wardaddy]

I own an 11 acre self storage place in Old Hickory behind the McDonalds and Sonic...that strip on OHB

Old Hickory Village...once nice...has been rocked by Sec 8 housing

[the scotsman]

Try Scottish food.

Our meat is legendary, the finest smoked salmon on the planet, the finest lamb and fish, top class fresh fruit and veg.....not to mention the cakes, puddings, shortbread.