February 1, 2008
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Obesity and Restaurants
Mississippi Legislators introduced a bill that would make it illegal for restaurants to serve those who are obese.
Three members of the state’s House of Representatives proposed Bill No. 282. The bill is said to be unlikely to pass. Here is the link: Link
In some states, bars are not allowed to serve people that are already drunk.
Do you think restaurants should be banned from serving the obese?
Comments (150)
Yes…it is all their fault! Just like porn does to people.
What the fuck? YEAH MAN. STARVE THOSE FATTIES OUT THAT’LL TEACH ‘EM.
Assholes.
Wouldn’t that like kill 70% of the food business in Mississippi?
@esch99 - Don’t forget Louisiana.
They should ban them from all-you-can-eat restaurants.
Since when is it legal for a state to discriminate against anyone?
And how would said restaurants determine which customers are too portly to be served?
gah.
No, that’s a weird idea.
No…
I think obese people should stop eating from restaurants themselves. (not that that’s likely to happen..)
Eek. Can you say “lawsuits”?
I get very frustrated with people who think obesity is just a matter of shoving tons of food down your throat! It isn’t! AND, I might add that drinking and eating are two very separate issues. You HAVE to eat to stay alive, you do NOT have to drink! Grief!
It the just shoot the fatties, they can make us all thin much faster.
no. that would probably hurt business. restaurants have enough trouble surviving. and obese people still need to eat.
Well, you do have to drink fluids to stay alive.
But my answer is no, public eating places can’t ban and shouldn’t be able to ban overweight people. And yes, many people are overweight – most people are overweight for self-satisfying, non-medical reasons. But they sure cause a lot of job security for me.
yikes! he has bigger boobies than i do -_- on that issue… i don’t think they should discriminate. that’s stupid. in some bars, they wait an hr before giving u ur second beer.. and so on.. i don’t drink that much so i don’t care..
@esch99 - I’d say closer to 90%.
I can see discrimination lawsuit coming up.. Money is rolling in..
… maybe? it seems kind of rude, but maybe its some convuleted way of trying to get American healthy again?
That would be seriously bad for business in some places.. Since when is it up to the government to hold you accountable for your food intake..? Next they will regulate the amount of times you shit and if you let it mellow or flush it down?
Not a good business idea, not a good civil idea. It’s most definitely not going to solve any problems, it’s only going to get obese civil activists enraged. In fact, I don’t see any possible practical reason for this.
-David
uh….NO!
The difference between serving drunks and serving overweight patrons, is that drunks are a danger to themselves and others; their judgement is impaired by their consumption of alcohol. Fat people probably aren’t going to pose a threat to society, but that’s just a guess so what do I know?
You want to make less people obese? Make healthy food cost less! Make gym memberships cost less! Regulate all the fucking transfats and unnatural ingredients added in food! No ban should be made on serving obese patrons, unless they also ban serving ugly people. Who wants fat and ugly people seen in their restaurant? That is the stupidest effing bill ever.
It actually makes me really angry to see that some of the people that commented think that this legislation would be a (pseudo) good idea.
While we’re at it.. lets also stop letting everyone sit whereever they would like on the busses again.. kay?
Sheesh. Morons.
That’s absolutely ridiculous.
ps Steph843 is absolutely right!
That’s absurd.
Bars can be held responsible for what their patrons do once they leave, so it’s no surprise some might not want to serve drinks to those who might already pose a major liability to their businesses.
No. Seriously.. lol, let me just laugh at this idea for a while.
What. The. Fuck?
(In other words, NO.)
Uh no.. what are they gonna do, start checking BMIs at the door?
The fact that they are even considering this is a bit ludicrous in my opinion!
Um, no. Obese people have to eat too. Granted, they shouldn’t be eating out in the first place, but this a step headed towards the right direction in a very wrong, wrong way.
wow, that sucks. I know I am considered “obese” (I am about the size of the guy in the pic) – but I do not eat more than some skinny people. In fact, sometimes I eat better. I dont even buy junk food anymore but I still do not loose weight. I suppose I could loose weight if I spent every free second exercising but who wants to live that way. I am hoping as I began to eat better I will loose weight – but when I rarely go to a restaruant (cause its expensive) I want to eat a burger or chicken fried steak without someone telling me I cannot. how rude… Forbidding obese people to eat is not like forbidding a drunk person to drink, thats insane.
Daniel (doubledb)
No! How would you enforce that?!? That’s absurd! Besides, just because a person is obese doesn’t mean that they don’t have to eat something!
NO!
while i think this is ridiculous, i have to comment about possible lawsuits.
there is no standing for a lawsuit for this based on discrimination, because being obese is not a protected class
however, i do think that this law is unconstitutional based on the commerce clause
Over-eating is an addiction, just like smoking is an addiction–and here they have banned smoking in all public places. And, just like smoking, obesity is a health-risk. But I don’t think banning overweight people from restaurants is the answer at all. Smoking is banned because it is a risk to others, as well as the person doing it. But being overweight is only a risk to the person who is overweight, so they really have no right to kick them out. It’s not like you can make people lose weight; if they’re denied access to restaurants they would just stock up on junk food and eat themselves into oblivion anyways.
Maybe the solution is to make restaurants healthier, and give out smaller portions. In this day and age everything seems to be supersized, which doesn’t help anyone at all. And how would you really draw the line of who gets kicked out and who can stay? Is it just the morbidly obese or is it also the people who could maybe lose 10 pounds or so. Would they have to weigh people before coming in? It is just ridiculous.
@ShortyTheChileHead - lets just make it 99.9% and forget about it!
@steph843 - A humorous aside to your posit that fat people do not pose a danger to society… well, if a fat person sat on me my poor petite little form would be toast.
But I agree with you–the bill is amusing but ridiculous in a society that calls itself democratic.
seems like a status thing to me. It’s hard for me to say, in good conscience, that policy could possibly outweigh civil rights here.
Freedom – the United States no has it.
I can’t even tell you how angry I was when I read that article. Fat predjudice really is the last acceptable form of discrimination.
That’s stupid, starving them will not make them thinner- only healthy eating and exercise planned out for an extensive period can.
Ah yes, the government is trying take away rights from it’s citizens again. I forget what country I live in sometimes.
Just a response to acomment you posted on the featured Xanga…just because white men have been president, it doesn’t mean an African American or a woman can’t do just a good a job, or better. Either one of them would be better than Bush, and Bush is a white male.
Even fat kids’ve gotta eat.
The state has no right to manipulate eating. If people want to stuff themselves till they die, it’s their right. Doesn’t make it it any less dumb for them to keep eating like that, though.
how many legislators would be affected by the bill?…
steph843 – You want to make less people obese? Make healthy food cost less! Make
gym memberships cost less! Regulate all the fucking transfats and
unnatural ingredients added in food! No ban should be made on serving
obese patrons, unless they also ban serving ugly people. Who wants fat
and ugly people seen in their restaurant? That is the stupidest effing
bill ever.
Excellent. I agree completely. There are a lot of times overweight people go out and eat healthier at a restaurant than they do in their own homes.
Going to a restaurant is also a very social thing. People go out to interact with each other, not just to eat.
I wish legislators would find ways to help the problem, not be the problem.
Wow…no….that would go bad very quickly.
That is so out of line it is not even funny. I think the better comment here for me would be no comment.
@onegirlarmy03 - I agree. I see it here all the time from posters here. It’s absurd that people still have to suffer from the way they look. We all have our preferences for what we can tolerate physically and what we cannot, but I don’t get to kick people out of resturants because they have BO or rotten teeth…
Furthermore, could you imagine the embarrassment of having to tell a customer that they were too overweight to be served? What about overweight employees on their lunch breaks? Would they have to fire all of their own overweight employees to keep them from eating? Talk about making people depressed and making them want to eat more…GEEZ.
My jaw literally hit the ground when I saw this article. SICK.
that makes no sense.. actually, that sucks! no!
I’m all for it! I mean, look, only fat people are upset by it.
Well look, it’s an election year. Lawmakers are taking action!
They aren’t taking action on our behalf as you may think, fat people’s costs on the insurance industry will become staggering.
Since we are no longer quite the manufacturing industry we once were, when our service industry gets tapped significantly by things like fat people and smokers, lawmakers will spring into, or appear to spring into action.
I suspect this will help with lobbying and contributions, but in reality be completely useless, as much already is.
You’re breathing my air.
How could any society based on the principles of freedom even allow the proposal of such a law? These legislators have gone too far, even if the bill is not likely to pass it is a serious slap in the face of the very principles America is built on- freedom to do as you please as long as you do not infringe on the rights of others. And then there is another principle; government is not God, nor our father or our boss, it does not have the right to “know better” than we do what is good for us. That’s called freedom. Now a law like this will not pass, and the media does sensationalise, but the fact is the fact that we even allow our elected representatives to become so arrogant as to propose such rubbish is a serious sign.
Perhaps I’m getting too emotional and principled here. How about this:
We shouldn’t allow stupid people anywhere. Especially not in positions of power.
talk about stupidity… what idiot came out with that idea?
what would that accomplish??? lol.
have you honestly taken a look at our society? food/junkfood…is EVERYWHERE…
if you want to do something about obesity, go after companies that purposely put additives into their food to make people want more of it…
or better yet, make it mandatory that all food products… in stores, off the shelves, in restaurants… serve a “normal” serving first… and anything additional, charge extra.
1) food will be cheaper. mebbe. lol.
2) people will eat less, not b/c they have to, but it lets them know what’s a normal piece… it may nto help people who are already used to large portions, but it may help people/kids who are borderline or on their way there…
3) you can’t force behavior.. but you can help build better ones…
any other ideas?
There wouldn’t be anyone left to serve. Unlike drunkeness, obesity is a long term condition. It doesn’t go away after a few hours.
Well, that could be awkward at business dinners. It would be pretty bad for local business. But it’s all in the same spirit as Illinois’ smoking bans.
This is insane. It leaves it up to the waiter or host to decide what obese is. Unless we want to make people start carrying around cards that say whether or not they’re obese. If people want to eat themselves into oblivion, I’m not going to stop them.
they wouldn’t be able to serve anyone literally. we are all obese down here.
No, that’s complete insanity based on the assumption that obesity is the product SOLELY of shoving food down your throat.
Sickening.
Oh PULLLEEZZEE… Now you’re going to tell people WHAT to eat? The world can’t/won’t stop them from killing themselves with cigarettes because it’s their “right” to smoke (and blow it all over us, impacting MY right to breathe), but it’ll be politically correct demanding their personal weight loss? This world is totally screwed up.
That sounds like a horrible bill… OF course I also think its stupid for peopel to sue fast food resturants because they are fat…
no, that’s taking away their free will, which i think [i'm really not sure =] is against the law.
i completely agree with X_naomi_x and steph843.
Unbelievable..really upsetting to hear first of all..
Obesity runs in my family what the hell does the goverment have to say how much and where i could eat?
*sighs*
@Ayliana87 - unless you’re an alcoholic.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C. S. Lewis
That is a ridulous waste of politition time. Are they going to have a doctor at every restaurant to decide if someone is over their ideal weight?
noooo wtf
Nope. Being obese and being drunk are not the same.
If the guy can’t fit through the door than don’t let them in
That’s just plain mean! It’s wrong on so many levels. First off, everyone, obese people included, needs to eat. An alcoholic can choose not to drink, but a person with a weight problem can’t just stop eating. (Unless they want to be anorexic, which is not a wise solution)
Secondly, obese people already are discriminated against enough. They have a harder time finding dates, finding flattering clothes, and fitting into bus/airline seats. They already have to contend with stereotypes about them being slovenly and lazy. They already have ignorant people who assume it’s their fault, without even knowing about them or their situation. Banning them from restaurants is just one more insult.
Thirdly, it’s unfair to people who have obese friends as well. If they want to go out to dinner, but they suddenly can’t take their obese friend along, either they stop going out to eat with their friends (and who wants to give that up?) or the obese person starts getting left out all the time (is that really fair?)
Some people might come back at me saying that obese people “bring it on themselves.” Maybe some of them do. That’s not the point. Some have medical conditions that make it extremely difficult to lose weight. But that’s not the point either. The point is, no matter what size they are or why, they are human beings and deserve to be treated as such.
Actually, I think you should be flogged for posting that photo.
That definitely makes my list of the top ten dumbest law ideas I’ve ever heard of.
You want
to make less people obese? Make healthy food cost less! Make gym
memberships cost less! Regulate all the fucking transfats and unnatural
ingredients added in food! No ban should be made on serving obese
patrons, unless they also ban serving ugly people. Who wants fat and
ugly people seen in their restaurant? That is the stupidest effing
bill ever.
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replyYeah, seriously. D’you know how many chemicals there are in regular foodstuffs sold at stores? MSG, high fructose corn syrup (sooo much worse than sugar), etc., I mean, come on. People should at least know about it.
Most definitely. Policing it could be handled by a new branch of the Thought Police. But wait, that would require more police, therefore more taxes. Here’s a better idea: make it illegal for really fat people to get laid. What, that happens already? Wow, isn’t life marvellous. =)
How about a law saying that if a member of a legislative body proposes a law, and the law is proved to be absolutely stupid, then he is proven stupid, and no one is allowed to employ or pay him for any task other than ditch-digging?
That is the stupiest thing I have ever heard!!
No, those restaurants would suffer bankruptcy! You have to eat food to survive, but you don’t need to drink alcohol to survive. There is a difference.
I would imagine such a bill would lead to the closing/losing of money of many eating establishments, and will probably never pass.
Oh, and moobs.
Oh yeah, like they’re gonna wonna ban the customers that keep them in business. They prolly would LOVE to ban them from ALL YOU CAN EAT, but no way they would want to ban them from buying straight off the menu. It’s a shame obese people can’t take control of their eating themselves. Just cuz you get hungry doesn’t mean go out and eat several pounds of food. Eat a little snack…something healthy, then wait til time to eat, then have a little self control. It’s for your own good, no one elses. As far as the Gov telling businesses to do this, heck no. The Gov doesn’t need to step in with something like that. The more power you give the Gov, the more power they take and the less control YOU have.
Man, THAT dude likes to eat!
Hey, is that BUBBA!
I don’t think so.
It’s their right to stay unhealthy.
Plus, someone could just be born with that body type, so it wouldn’t be fair to them.
I think that would be a really hard law to enforce. You can’t justly compare that to bars not being able to serve drunk people because I don’t think anyone’s ever killed someone because they had too much food to eat at dinner…
i think it’s a good idea. i say this b/c i used to be fat.
and eat all icould eat. i still eat a lot. my obesity was due to meds but still…..
you shouldn’t encourage fat-ness
No, but there should be some kind of economic incentive for losing weight. Obesity is a drain on our medical system, which sucks already. Also, it’s fucking unsightly.
@Emjay1 - Dude, try living in Chicago. No cigs aloud, anywhere. It’s a bitch.
Then they can do what I do: Stay at home and cook home-made organic lentil soup. Easy. Delicious. Add some rice and maybe a little pure fruit juice, and you’ve got yourself a perfectly balanced accidentally vegan meal. And hours of farting to look forward to!
“Sir, I’m sorry, but you’re going to have to leave. You’re too fat.”
that’s pure comedy right there.
I’m obese, didja know that? Not like, morbidly, but if you look at me weight and height
That’s ridiculous. You don’t have to drink alcohol to stay alive, but you kind of have to eat.
I hope so.
I was going to say that being drunk is a lot different than being obese. I would say that being stuffed is more like being drunk, just technically. But thin people can be stuffed, too, right? And who’s to say that the obese person got that way because of what they ate? I realize that this is the case most of the time, but there are people with thyroid problems and such. The problem with not serving a person at a restaurant is that people, obese or not, have to eat. Some people choose to eat out. A drunk person does not have to drink to live, although they may tell you otherwise.
Hahahahahahaha
Seriously, though, fat people need to eat, too.
THIS IS AMERICA!!! YOU CAN BE FAT IF U CHOOSE!! ITS YOUR CHOICE! THEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO EAT WHAT THEY WANT
How about just serving smaller portion sizes of healthy food? The average portion at most restaurants is enough for at least two, sometimes three individual meals.
No. That’s discrimination and a part of “man’s inhumanity towards man.” Acts like this are in the same category as the Holocaust and genocide, on a smaller scale of course. If people don’t realize this, then we’re all in trouble because the big things started out small.
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I smell a lawsuit…and this is the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever heard..
Food is a necessity of life. Not everyone can cook, that’s why some people go to restaurants. People drink because they choose to. Drunks can harm themselves or others. Obese people, while they may have health problems, are not endangering others by being obese. (Unless that skinny bitch takes the last piece of cake, then all hell could break loose)
@Direshark - Wow. Imagine a whole group of obese activists, cheering together. That’ll be a site.
This isn’t going to solve the issue of obesity…it’s just going to get a lot of people angry.
1. Depends on how you define obese.
2. Government regulation is always a bad idea.
That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard, not to mention highly discriminatory. Eating out is someone’s personal decision, whether obese or skinny. Talk about control issues…what’s next? Preventing diabetics from eating sweets? It’s a personal choice. They’re not hurting anyone but themselves…and I’m overweight and let me be the first to tell you…it wasn’t all because of food. Some people actually do have health problems that attribute to their obesity. Fuck politicians…I’m convinced they’re either aliens or robots. They sure as hell aren’t human.
are they going to have a scale at the entrance to every restraunt that you have to stand on for the door to open? becuase that would be a shitty job to tell people they were too fat to eat there
That’s ridiculous. Let people do what they want. Eating at a fast food restaurant when you’re obese doen’t put other lives in danger as does drinking at a bar when you’re already drunk.
There’s a difference.
Um…how is that going to work? Have scale, and someone who can calculate BMI at every resturant?
I support what they are trying to do, but not how they are doing it.
Just another way to discriminate.
NO! LOL a person’s got a eat to survive! a person doesn’t ever have to drink alcohol to survive! what a strange and ridiculous bill!
Wow… .they should ban whoever came up with this idea from all restaurants.
i think they should be given a special menu.
not serving the drunk and not serving the obese is two totally different things. not serving the drunk is a sefety issue, for them and others. not serving the obese is just f*cking discrimination. wth man.
What? Not even a salad?
Idiots.
That’s insane!
If Mississippi politicians lose weight too
Judge not lest you be judged. There are so many other deadly sins that are acceptable even glorified; why is it so bad to be over weight? What about all the sick STDS that people have from sleeping around? No one goes around showing pictures of genital warts and herpes and the like to get people to control their urges.
What, so, just because avoiding restaurant food is “healthier,” the government should force you to do it? No friggin way. This is outrageous.
Thats crazy, mean, and hurtful to do.
You know, I’m all for charging them higher health insurance rates and making them pay extra for airplane seats, but this does seem to cross the line a bit.
Maybe instead they can pass a bill making restaurants give healthier options.
you know, what if you just want to stick a finger in you ass ? should you be banned from doing it ?
@mrcolorful - Since the state enacted affirmative action.
This would be a glaringly obvious case of the government doing something that isn’t its job. There are many other cases, but people often overlook the norm (withholding income, taxing gas, banning smoking in private establishments, etc).
this is one of the dumbest things i have ever heard of! sounds like one of the “fake” news stories published on theonion.com… obese people may have made bad eating choices and live an unhealthy lifestyle, or it could be the result of a medical problem like hypothyroidism or a medicinal side-effect of a drug that is necessary for them to take, either way – THEY STILL HAVE TO EAT! it would be extremely discriminative to keep them from being served at a restauraunt – there is no way this bill will ever pass, and the people who proposed it are morons!!!
only in Louisiana! or maybe Florida…we could do that here…maybe
That’s discrimination and if it does get passed, hopefully the Supreme Court will strike it down.
Everyone needs to eat. Even obese people get hungry and everyone needs nourishment.
That is over half adults and CHILDREN….I think its ridiculous! could you imagine it? I work in food service….around 80% of the patrons could use to lose at least 10-15lbs! at least….more like 50. It will never happen…..WE keep fast food in business!
This bill is going to go nowhere fast. It proves that “some Mississipi legislators” are out of their minds!
No, that’s just plain mean. To the obese person, and the resturant owner, and the employee who has to ask them to leave.
maybe they should change the law so they can stop the obese patron from getting fifths “im sorry sir you’ve had enough”
Wow talk about a new low in discrimination. What is up with the government trying to control our habits…good or bad, it’s our bodies to mess up if we want to, who has the right to tell us otherwise??
If you want to pass laws to encourage healthier people, all you would need to do is regulate the restaurants. Make it a law to serve only serving sized portions. Most restaurants serve enough food to feed at least two people. Here in Vegas, they do not believe in sending you away hungry, so they will serve enough to feed a small army. There are too many people who believe they HAVE TO EAT EVERYTHING on thier plate, it just ain’t so.
Fatties still need to eat. You think a meal while they’re already overweight is going to make a difference now?! What about preventive measures instead of punishing them? They didn’t become this way overnight.
Of course not. That’s one of the stupidest ideas I’ve heard. Several
people have already pointed out that it’s not like refusing to serve a
drunk person, and it’s not like banning smoking in a building either
because one could argue that someone smoking in a restaurant
poses a health risk to others (although I personally think that banning smoking
should be the owner’s choice and not the government’s, but that’s a
different issue). Sitting in the same restaurant as an obese person does not cause any legitimate health-related complaint. And of course some obese people have medical issues
to deal with. Some could improve their lifestyles, sure, but so could
millions of skinny people. I’m overweight, but I have thin friends who
have the same eating habits and activity level as I do. The fact that I
weigh more doesn’t prove that I’m lazier than they are or that I eat
more than they do.
And what if the obese person has started eating better? Or is actually losing weight? What reason do
you have for banning them? Are they saying obesity makes a person unable to make healthy eating choices?
And of course, it’s just terrible for business. Say a family wants to go out and celebrate something (a promotion, an engagement, what have you) and one member of the 6-person party fits the criteria for obesity. Once that person is told they can’t be served, of course the other 5 would leave as well, and I doubt any of them would eat there anytime soon.
Are we also going to try to ban people who are too tan from tanning salons? Or people who gamble too much from entering casinos?
That C.S. Lewis quote someone put up earlier is far too appropriate for this.
I’m very petite, a women, & can not get away with weighing/eating as much as some ppl. EVERY time I would hang out w my friend’s parents they would go out to eat 2x a day. They are both very tall & have apple bodies (pot bellies). They pick on me saying I should eat more. For me…… if I go out to eat, all I can eat at a restaurant is the appetizer & half my plate, then I feel like I’m going to die & am stuffed for 10hrs… I saw their lifestyle of eating as unhealthy bc it is recommended that ppl eat 5-6small meals a day, only eat enough to stop the hunger, & to keep track of calorie count. So I am proud of my small ‘bird’ appetite.
o_o;;;
while both obesity and alchoholism are for the most part behavioral issues that can be controlled with the right tools, Obesity causes danger to the one that is obese, not usually to those around them. If there is generally no harm to the public, then it’s fatty’s own business that fatty is fat… and possibly fatty’s family.
You can’t compare the two because they are not the same thing, and that sort of bill would never fly. Its disgusting, and it’d kill business since obesity appears to be the biggest health problem in the U.S.
This is a thinly veiled attempt to close down restaurants at the whim of the legislators. They have provided no means for verification of the weight of the individuals, as most they try will undoubtedly be illegal. Not to mention, that you can eat tons of food and stil lose weight, i.e., atkins diet for one. So they appeal to man’s worse nature to get their claws into the food industry. Or… perhaps create a recruiting ground. If this law passes, will you see army recruiters standing outside restaurants in mississippi? Hehehe, the possibilities are endless.
(lol, my ancestors were from the south, if you left the table first the person who did the cooking was offended, and my grandmother was one of those people who made sure everyone was”fed”)
… and let them starve?!
@X_naomi_X -
I agree with Naomi. I don’t know which is worse, this “law” or some of the comments.
While they are at it why don’t they ration their groceries or just lock them away at a fat farm until they are the proper weight?
Now ….what to do about their mass stupidity?
No, I don’t think that they should be able to refuse service to those who are overweight.
What if they are only ten pounds overweight? What is that going to do to that person when the waiter is like ‘Sorry, your excess of fat prohibits me from serving you this cheeseburger.’
The reason we stop serving drunk people at bars is because they pose a risk to others around them if they continue to drink and they also are not fully able to make rational decisions.
I’ve never seen an overweight person be a threat to the people around them or not be able to make a good decision because of their weight.
what the F????? no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA only in Mississippi. What a supid idea. If the chunker wants some food, feed him. Let him live his life, and we’ll live ours.
NO! Obese people have to eat to. Thats the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of.
there is an obesity epidemic, but banning obese people from eating out isnt going to solve it. plus like everyone else is saying LAWSUITS
I think that’s absolutely rude. Not serving alcohol to someone who’s already drunk is great, because serving them anymore could endanger lives around them, but not serving obese people food is rude. Their obesity isn’t endangering anyone around them. Their food intake is their choice, and shouldn’t be anyone elses. If they want to put themselves in danger of diseases like diabetes and heart disease, that’s up to them.
…That is so completely ridiculous.
No, that would not be okay, though I wish we could do it!! It would be poor business for the restaurant because they’d lose their fat customers as well as the fat customer’s family and possibly their friends.
of course not! who gives the government the right to control what people eat?
No, what happen if they just want to eat something light like a salad. But, if they keep eating a huge amount I think they should stop them.
Uh, absolutely not. That’s a ridiculous thought, not to mention it’s really rude. What has this world come to?