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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet's revise our old offensive stereotypes about who's been hogging all the watermelons
Naturally, in our rush to construct new offensive sterotypes, we should consider the scientific evidence, so read this:
Factors Affecting Watermelon Consumption In the United States
Gary Lucier and Biing-Hwan Lin
Vegetables and Specialties: Situation and Outlook
Economic Research Service USDA
November 2001
Here's what I learned from Table A-2 on page 27:
Non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks are getting less than 90% of their fair share of the nation's watermelons; Hispanics are getting 30% more than their fair share; and the remaining ethnic groups are eating 189% more than their fair share!
Rich people and poor people are getting about 90% of their fair share of the nation's watermelons; and the middle class is eating 15% more than their fair share!
Southerners are getting barely 80% of their fair share of the nation's watermelons; Northeasterners and Midwesterners are getting about 90% of their fair share; and Westerners are eating 37% more than their fair share!
Men are getting only 97% of their fair share; and women are eating 3% more than their fair share!
My proposal for a new offensive stereotype: Middle-class non-hispanic Western women, who do not consider themselves either black nor white, love watermelon!
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)That's 289% TOO MUCH!!!
Others, consider yourselves on NOTICE!
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)LumosMaxima
(585 posts)I don't like watermelon & never eat it. I might have scooped up a piece from a salad bar at some point in the last twenty years, but what I was really going for was the cantaloupe.
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)But the point of the stereotype is to offer lazy fug-heads the opportunity to believe they can know something about other people without all the bother of interacting with them
dsc
(52,166 posts)but when it comes to the fried chicken, I will cut you.
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)It is a cheap high volume produce in season. Last year I bought somewhere over 150 in 60 days from a local grower, it was all 300 retired, predominantly white, middle class people wanted.
Oh, In the same time, the same people ate over 500 cantelopes from the same grower. .
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)showing retired middle class white folk dressed as monkeys eating watermelon
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JI7
(89,262 posts)along with some other fruit. it's good for those who want something healthy instead of usual junk like the hot dogs. although the hot dogs are really good.
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)come into my thread to contradict me!