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landpoke · 11-01-2008, 03:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

I don't know about Jackson, but the buffets on the casinos in Vicksburg haven't helped matters at all.

The buffets in Tunica were stroke inducing. By which I mean delicious.

cougjunkie · 11-01-2008, 02:23 PM

It started raining here pretty hard but we still walked with our 3 year old. But I saw plenty of minivans driving their kids from house to house.

FarrahWaters · 11-01-2008, 03:58 PM

You have to hike quite a ways in our neighborhood to get enough candy to make it worth your while. Mike took our son out trick-or-treating for the first time, and he said there was maybe one out of every 10 houses or so that was open to trick-or-treaters.

I ran out of candy pretty quickly, they were driving in big suburban loads of kids, probably from the nearby apartments.

creekster · 11-01-2008, 04:15 PM

I didn't see nayone driving around. That is hard for me to imagine. We were out for about and hour and a half with my 10 year old (very soon 11 as he constantly reminds me). HE got an obscene amount of candy. As our neighbiorhood has aged the number of kids trick or treating has dropped dramatically but people seem to buy the same amout o candy so by later in the process the maount of candy per kid skyrockets. He must have 12 or more pounds of candy.

BarbaraGordon · 11-01-2008, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by creekster

As our neighbiorhood has aged the number of kids trick or treating has dropped dramatically but people seem to buy the same amout o candy so by later in the process the maount of candy per kid skyrockets.

This is why we go to grandma's neighborhood. No kids, and all the older couples are at home waiting to pass out fistfuls of candybars.

RC Vikings · 11-02-2008, 03:22 AM

Mike Gottlieb from ESPN radio said that the most beautiful girls attend school in Oxford so underneath all that fat on those old women is a beautiful co-ed.

SeattleUte · 11-03-2008, 03:36 AM

The obese states are the reddest states and also among the poorest. In places like Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma the eating habits are unbelievably bad. I know there are physiological issues that cause obesity. But time and again I'm shocked at obese peoples' eating habits. As some have noted here, in the deep south it's constant gorging on fried food, gravy and carbs. Just walk in any restaurant down there and the culture is radically different than on the West Coast. And yes, obesity is a rampant problem there.

Moreover, poor folks can't afford to buy healtheir food, or lack education about nutrition. The sad thing is terrible eating habits become entrenched in childhood. Some of the stuff I see kids eating makes me think their parents should be locked up. I see a pudgy kid eating a cupcake and washing it down with one of those sugary drinks in the plastic bottle and I see a future for the poor little guy of blindness, amputation and early death. (Yes, I give my kids ice cream sometimes and the occasional candy.)

BarbaraGordon · 11-03-2008, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

The sad thing is terrible eating habits become entrenched in childhood. Some of the stuff I see kids eating makes me think their parents should be locked up. I see a pudgy kid eating a cupcake and washing it down with one of those sugary drinks in the plastic bottle and I see a future for the poor little guy of blindness, amputation and early death. (Yes, I give my kids ice cream sometimes and the occasional candy.)

A rather generously-sized girl at my son's birthday party ate ten slices of pizza, two pieces of cake, and three dr. peppers. I was flabbergasted.

Solon · 11-03-2008, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by FarrahWaters

maybe one out of every 10 houses or so that was open to trick-or-treaters.

This is outrageous. We had a better ratio, but only 1 out of 3 or 4 houses was open.

It's time to put the "trick" back into this holiday.

Oh, and you can send all the fatties up here next summer from some deep-fried Oreos.

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landpoke · 11-03-2008, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by barbaragordon

a rather generously-sized girl at my son's birthday party ate ten slices of pizza, two pieces of cake, and three dr. Peppers. I was flabbergasted.

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11-01-2008, 02:23 PM	#12
cougjunkie Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Utah Posts: 5,741	It started raining here pretty hard but we still walked with our 3 year old. But I saw plenty of minivans driving their kids from house to house. __________________ LINCECUM!

11-01-2008, 04:15 PM	#14
creekster Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: the far corner of my mind Posts: 8,711	I didn't see nayone driving around. That is hard for me to imagine. We were out for about and hour and a half with my 10 year old (very soon 11 as he constantly reminds me). HE got an obscene amount of candy. As our neighbiorhood has aged the number of kids trick or treating has dropped dramatically but people seem to buy the same amout o candy so by later in the process the maount of candy per kid skyrockets. He must have 12 or more pounds of candy. __________________ Sorry for th e tpyos.

11-02-2008, 03:22 AM	#16
RC Vikings Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Rexburg, Idaho Posts: 2,236	Mike Gottlieb from ESPN radio said that the most beautiful girls attend school in Oxford so underneath all that fat on those old women is a beautiful co-ed. __________________ "I always rode to my limit. If I won by three minutes, that's because I couldn't make four." Eddy Merckx

11-03-2008, 03:36 AM	#17
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	The obese states are the reddest states and also among the poorest. In places like Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma the eating habits are unbelievably bad. I know there are physiological issues that cause obesity. But time and again I'm shocked at obese peoples' eating habits. As some have noted here, in the deep south it's constant gorging on fried food, gravy and carbs. Just walk in any restaurant down there and the culture is radically different than on the West Coast. And yes, obesity is a rampant problem there. Moreover, poor folks can't afford to buy healtheir food, or lack education about nutrition. The sad thing is terrible eating habits become entrenched in childhood. Some of the stuff I see kids eating makes me think their parents should be locked up. I see a pudgy kid eating a cupcake and washing it down with one of those sugary drinks in the plastic bottle and I see a future for the poor little guy of blindness, amputation and early death. (Yes, I give my kids ice cream sometimes and the occasional candy.) __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

11-01-2008, 03:58 PM	#13
FarrahWaters Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,122	You have to hike quite a ways in our neighborhood to get enough candy to make it worth your while. Mike took our son out trick-or-treating for the first time, and he said there was maybe one out of every 10 houses or so that was open to trick-or-treaters. I ran out of candy pretty quickly, they were driving in big suburban loads of kids, probably from the nearby apartments.