I do see your point, I go out to places and am like; "wow, do they own a mirror 'cause that's a lot of meat and not enough packaging".
But did you ever consider the places that you see these people?
Not a direct cross but my friends and I would frequent this corner bar on Friday nights now and then and it appeared to be a normal, young crowd. On rare occasions, we would show up in the middle of the day- you would think that the entire neighborhood was nothin' but nasty old toothless drunks from the people that haunted the place... not that there's anything wrong with that.
Yes, I certainly have. At the country club the ratio of overweight to normal is not as bad as it is at the grocery store, and the degree of obese differs slightly ... but the grossly overweight are everywhere in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Several years ago I was a pit manager in a large casino, where you see a wide cross-section of the local population, as well as many people from out-of-town. It was very rare to see someone that couldn't stand to lose some weight, unless they were very young (early 20's). Of those that could stand to lose some weight, about half were grossly overweight. It was sickening.