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'In n Out' and the obesity epidemic

'In n Out' is a burger chain in America.  A burger is a meat patty so formed by using raw shredded or ground cow (usually) mixed with binding agents and spices.  This then is grilled or heated via some mechanism and presented betwixt two round buns with or without other accouterments like onion, tomato, lettuce and a sauce.

The point of this is that the size of said food item has grown as the calories provided by it.  America you see has been growing.  In terms of every conceivable metric - from GDP to population to national debt to the size of its citizens.  The latter can be explained by another variable that has seen dramatic rise - Greed.  For anything. Everything. That includes food.

Thusly the size of donuts and bagels and beef patties.  The carts used in the store to pick up these items.   Also larger.  The cars needed to haul this loot home - you guessed it - gargantuan.  The garages and the homes to house the loot and the looters are like giant drywall and siding castles across the American prairie, from sea to shining sea.

Now getting to the In vs Out part.  Once the cooked material is masticated it is pushed through the alimentary canal to be inspected and calorific value extracted and eventually the leftover discharged as raw sewage.

There comes the Out part.  And the tools to deal with it.  Have you noticed the tissue roll?  It is huge.  It is so huge that the large homes that had the little metal cylinder to make it roll smoothly now cannot perform.  The roll hits the wall behind and makes a tight friction fit.  Cannot move.  Talk about size getting in the way of progress or poor architecture.  The Japanese have come up with clever tools like the automated commode to manage this process that does not necessitate the use of paper tissues but the initial install can be cost prohibitive.

The earlier consumed content then proceeds to accumulate as fat in the lower reaches of the abdominal and buttock regions of the body thereby causing failure of the heart and other issues.  All these people - yours truly included - are now in the grip of the obesity epidemic.


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