We Don’t Serve No Fat Folks Here, Y’all
Can you even imagine a waiter coming up to you, just after you’ve planted your fat butt down at your table, and telling you to forget the service, there’s no way you’re eating there? Can you just freaking imagine?
Well, that’s what some of the fine folks in Mississippi may be faced with if House Bill 282 gets passed. Of course, in response to the amazing backlash (you think?) for even drafting such a bill, Rep. John Read, R-Gautier, said that it was never meant to pass, but was instead intended to raise awareness of the health risks associated with obesity. And since Mississippi has snagged the top spot as the most obese state in the nation, he wanted to give the problem the same kind of attention tobacco issues receive there.
You know, maybe this isn’t such a bad thought. We prohibit smoking in many restaurants these days, do we not? We do not serve a drunk person more alcohol at the restaurant’s bar. So maybe we ought to stop serving food to the fat people that walk into the restaurants. That would solve all the world’s problems, wouldn’t it? Restaurants would lose money, sure, but the junk food manufacturers would totally win since the chubby folks would need to get their eats from the grocery aisles instead. Nobody would be any skinnier, but hey, one helluva point would’ve been made, right? Yep, sheer brilliance.
Yeah.
Agreed Representative Read’s heart is in the right place (though his head appears to be wedged firmly up his…), but maybe he ought to try offering up the greenbacks like these guys did. Hey, worked for them.
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