New York Times thinks Yorkshire pudding is a dessert, Brits get angry - Sensationalist Headlines

It's okay, continental Europe thinks the same.

Isn't the UK the most obese country in Europe?

This is like a 350lb guy laughing at someone for being 250lb

No, it's like a 300lb guy (UK) saying "You can't say shit about my diet" because the other guy is 350lb. Also, the US is a much bigger place than europe, bigger than any single european country at all (if you don;t count Russia as european, which I tend not to). We've got fat states and fit states. The fattest states drag the average down. Our states are sometimes bigger than your countries, so imagine if people judged Germany based off of statistics coming out of Romania, just like how America's numbers are dragged down by Mississippi and Arkansas

Which would be a fair point if the fatter guy started making fun of his diet I know how averages work thanks

Oh so you were just being dishonest then

Geographical size means absolutely nothing in this case. No single state even comes close to the population of England, and we are quite a small country, geographically at least. Europe has around twice the population of the US, even discounting Russia.

Is the obesity rate in the US higher than the UK?

Population isn't the thing needed to compare here, but culture and government. The state governments and the states have different cultures from one another, leading to higher obesity rates in the more conservative south (which spends less on public health education). Population size has absolutely nothing to do with it

Fucking limeys with their statistics and shit... What am I meant to use to compare obesity? https://i.redditmedia.com/u0z7_jbcOb1dHifOo8j0wu_yTB2raDcNirlKPj6qh2E.jpg?w=1002&s=e85e5fd453c5fd7d03a234e2e0cb95c1.jpg Your bread is full of sugar too

Well now you're just posting flat out lies. A small at McDonalds is 16oz, not 23, a medium is 21oz not 30, and a large is 32oz, not 43. Sure these are big portions, but the law doesn't state anywhere that you have to actually eat at McDonalds? You have free choice to eat whatever you want. Also, literally all bread is full of sugar. That's what bread is. If you mean that it's too sweet, or that it has more sugar than other bread, then that's up to your personal taste, but for some reason, all the Europeans I've ever worked with come to america and eat like, 3 things and then do nothing but bitch and moan constantly about it. If you don't like white sandwich bread, then why are you eating it??? You can buy a baguette, ciabatta, or pretzel roll in the same grocery store, so why are you limiting your choices and then bitching about your own poor choices? Seriously, I've worked with dozens of Europeans over the last 5 years and they all come to America and eat McDonalds, Pizza (especially pizza), and junk food. That's all they're interested in eating for some reason!

33 states out of 51 have a higher obesity rate than the UK (28.1%), and all of them have a higher obesity rate than the EU average. It's not just averaging that skews up the statistics or a select few states that are dragging you down. You have a general obesity problem that no state-level public health policy managed to curb. It's endemic to the US as a whole. Every time an issue that is specific to the US gets brought up (gun violence, the measurement system, the electoral college...) you can bet your ass there's gonna be an American to come and mention how big his country is as an attempt to diminish it, as if surface or even population was relevant. That's American exceptionalism in a nutshell, folks.

My favourite thing about this thread is watching people make fun of Brits rushing to defend British cuisine, and then some Americans proceed to do the same thing whenever someone mentions obesity.

The document I linked was from 1996, but you make a good point. I had a look at the current guidelines and they're only somewhat better in the grains department. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2304/922d0932-b4d1-4f10-a44f-1c1829bf2f97/image.png Down from 6-11 servings a day to 6 servings a day. But more importantly, here's why Americans are fat. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2304/9cd2c08b-5509-44a3-8c01-3dcae1351e18/image.png Half the population eats too much bread. Probably because they were raised to eat lots of bread.

Imagine actually getting offended over bantz.

You can bet your ass that if I'm from a state that is economically distinct from the shithole that is Mississippi I'm gonna let you know that you have no fucking clue what you're talking about, literally zero clue. Imagine if I judged France based off of shit going on in Moldova?

All bread is not full of sugar, that's bs

No, you're wrong, it's not grains, it's corn. We put corn and corn syrup in lots of things because the government subsidizes it so much that there's artificial demand for it.

I mean if I really was going to rant about what makes America fat, it'd be many different things. Starting with the fact that the manufactured food industry has spent umpteen billions of dollars in R&D to make their products absolutely shatter human willpower by short-circuiting the dopamine system to go completely apeshit over an ideal source of fat, salt, and sugar. A good book on this phenomenon is The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler.

Those are just 2 examples. All your portions are massive, everyone who's been to the US tells me the same. I'm still not convinced Americans are generally in better shape than people in the UK

You know that giant island of garbage floating in the ocean? I've heard theres people living on it and they call it "England"

Once again, it's not THE LAW that you have to eat at McDonalds. I'm not claiming that Americans are in better shape than the UK, just that most states are on par or only slightly worse than the UK with obesity, and a handful of the poorest states in America are dragging the averages down, and my area (DC) is one of the lowest in the country at 22.6%

Don't get too excited ameritubs, your blood pressure is already high enough, take your $500 beta blockers and have a nap

I've traveled many places around the world, and quite a few places in the US. I've never seen more fat people than in the US

alrightalrightalright, let's get back on track: we're talking about health when the thread is about taste. My conclusion is that anyone who compares their own country to others and tries to say "my country is better" instead of "my country does things differently", probably has nothing good going on in their life and has to resort to taking pride in things that they haven't contributed anything towards.

Theres a difference between taking pride in something, and knowing that someone else is being an idiot

See now you're just proving that you're ignorant. Why bother criticizing another person's culture? Does it make you feel like a big man?

So uh, what does economics have to do with the fact that any state within the US is above the EU obesity rate and that two thirds of US states are above the UK obesity rate? Care to point out what exactly I have zero clue about within what I stated? No matter the state, you have an obesity problem that's greater than the whole of the EU's. In two thirds of the states, it's greater than the UK's. You guys just have generally shit dietary habits. You can't dispute the facts.

This thread https://cdn.britannica.com/09/187709-131-89D1D43E.jpg

Sounds like something someone whose country is worse would say.