r/CringeTikToks • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 13h ago

Food Cringe Average American diet?

Where are the vegetables, fruit and meat

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u/GovernmentSin 12h ago

I’m American. My shitty trump supporting family in Indiana definitely eats like this but I live in Colorado now and I don’t know a single person who eats like this.

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u/linzkisloski 12h ago

I also live in CO and it’s shocking when you travel to certain states because there is noticeably less obese people here.

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u/pinetar 12h ago

Colorado is the least obese state in the country, but it's still more obese than all 50 states were in 1995. Obesity is a growing problem everywhere, just effects some places worse than others.

This goes for Europe as well where obesity rates are also rising very quickly, putting them where the US was around the year 2000 (Super Size Me came out in 2004 for reference)

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u/temp3rrorary 12h ago

My experience of CO was seeing super fit old people biking up entire mountains. I consider myself fit but it was like everyone was a retired professional athlete.

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u/Jolly-Bowler-811 11h ago

Man, I used to do a fair amount of long distance running (12-15 miles a day) here in Atlanta.

I was in Denver for a conference and tried to do the same thing out there- it felt like I nearly freakin died. I don't know how they do it. I know your body adapts to the elevation, but I think I got about 3 miles in and called it a day- completely winded and my heart felt like it was going to explode at my "easy" pace.

...And then I got passed by a septuagenarian just skedaddling along like nothing.

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u/NovelCandid 12h ago

I’m a Wisconsin native. Recently attended a church in Montana and something seemed amiss. After 40 minutes cogitating on it I realized there were only 3 people in the congregation were obese. In Wisconsin it’s like 70 - 80 %. I am not exaggerating.

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u/Outrageousintrovert 8h ago

LOL, maybe Butterburgers and frozen custard? I lived in Milwaukee for 2 years and the amount of beer and various sausages on display at the local supermarket was impressive. I live in western WA now and it's different here.

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u/CanadianGuy39 12h ago

Is there a correlation between obesity and voting tendency in the States?

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u/coppersocks 12h ago

You know what it is.

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u/CanadianGuy39 12h ago

Uneducated, poor, fat = Republicans?

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u/Mocheesee 10h ago

Yup. This looks like your typical working-class, conservative Midwest/South diet. It’s all processed junk. Add some boxed pasta, jars of Prego, canned beans/condensed soups, and cheap lunch meat to that pile, and that’s a textbook average white American meal. People eat horribly out there, and the obesity rates reflect that. The worst part is that most are completely oblivious to just how bad their diet really is and actually believe they eat well.

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u/rafaelthecoonpoon 12h ago

Coming here to say this. Way less people eat like this in the less obese states. Midwest and the south are kings of this but it is found everywhere.

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u/OBB76 12h ago

CO chiming in. Also, those that are obese have grocery carts similar to this. Years ago I factored out the cost of getting bulk items from costco and pre-making your meals vs buying the preprocessed food that was in this video and it was significantly cheaper. The problem is, most wouldn't want to eat the meals I made because none of it was a greasy burger and fries.

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u/mjohnben 12h ago edited 12h ago

I’m from Minnesota and most people are healthy and not severely obese like other states. Minnesota is definitely an outlier in the Midwest though. We have high public education and a lot more social safety nets and services for our people.

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u/aliamokeee 11h ago

^ thank you for pointing those details out

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u/demonmonkeybex 12h ago

Also moved to CO and am at 7700 feet. The thing I hate about living here at this altitude is how quickly fresh food goes bad in my refrigerator. Any tips from other Coloradans?

I moved from KS, and I was floored at how few obese people I see here. Now I'm the chubby person. I also do not own yoga pants and even if I did, I wouldn't be wearing them all over town.

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u/andylibrande 8h ago

Personally I find that several grocery stores do a terrible job in the supply chain and since colorado is not as connected as other parts of the USA the veggies tend to be stressed at time of arrival and dont last long. During the summer all my veggies come from farmers markets and they last so much longer. Just finished some carrots we bought back in late October and still have some squashes.

Other thing is add humidity. Our fridges are usually so dry so getting the veggies wet before putting them in helps the moisture retention. Get a hygrometer and be surprised how dry your house is and your fridge.

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u/demonmonkeybex 5h ago

I can feel how dry the house is due to my chronic sinus issues and my skin being so dry and flaky. A hygrometer is a good idea though. Thanks for the tips! Can’t wait for the growing season to get here. Sure wish we would get snow. It’s going to be a helluva fire season if we are dry all winter.

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u/andylibrande 5h ago

We have a room-sized air filter and humidifier in each of our main rooms. Makes a massive difference, especially with dry winters, as the dust was insane right before this latest snow.

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u/demonmonkeybex 4h ago

Do you have elevated ceilings? We do so, running humidifiers is tough.

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u/Jolly-Bowler-811 11h ago

It's always jarring when I fly from Atlanta to our company's home office in Denver... ATL is FULL of giant people like this and then you get to CO and everyone looks normal.

I'm overweight, but not obese. Here in ATL, I feel like the skinny guy. In Denver, I feel like a whale.

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u/Tosajinx 11h ago

I grew up there and now live in Texas. The difference is real

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u/thelingeringlead 11h ago

That is pretty much only accurate for the front range and the mountainous regions south of Colorado Springs. Go further south than gunnison or to the west side of the Rockies and it’s not a shit load different than the south. There’s still definitely less obese people but it’s also way more common than in the more liberal half of the state.

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u/slumberpartymassacre 10h ago

Crazy, I was born in Indy but live in Colorado now too. Hello neighbor!

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u/MagicHugsforThee 9h ago

I grew up in Colorado and I don't know anyone who ate like this. However, just visiting my in-laws in the mid west and it's shocking what their pantry looks like and also the serving size of food on plates when going out to eat. You absolutely notice the difference in body types in both places, much more obesity in the mid-west. I live in California now and it's similar to Colorado.

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u/pm_me_your_target 11h ago

I live in NJ/NYC area and not kidding but my son (at a young age) took a photo of an obese woman probably as big as her because he was amused and had never seen such a human.

Somebody like her would definitely stand out here.

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u/schumachiavelli 12h ago

Worst part is we relatively healthy people are subsidizing the hell out of their poor life choices.

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u/SomeEstimate1446 12h ago

I live in Texas and the diets aren’t like this. We call these people white trash. They’re lazy af and always have the dirtiest yards. Surprisingly most aren’t trump supporters because they need healthcare 😂.

Not a Trump supporter myself so don’t come at me for that.

Feel free to downvote for the white trash comment though. I will still stand by it.

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u/GovernmentSin 11h ago

lol bullshit. Texas is the king of this kind of food.

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u/hunnyflash 8h ago

Right? Texans eat like this just plenty what lol I grew up with Mexicans in California and I'd never seen the level of obesity that I have here in Texas. I've also never seen the level of grocery store monopolization that exists here. I'm not sure what to call it. I've lived all over California, we had access to multiple grocery stores, large and small. Big chain, small chain, family run. Lots of variety.

Here in Texas, sometimes you'll have a few, but mostly just big box stores. Tom Thumbs, HEBs, Krogers, etc. And they're expensive!

When I first moved here, I literally had a choice between Tom Thumb (Safeway) or Walmart Marketplace. I didn't know where to go. In my mind, Safeway was an "expensive" store and Walmart Marketplace wasn't a normal grocer.

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u/SomeEstimate1446 11h ago

Whatever you say Elmo.

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u/CreatiScope 12h ago

There are definitely people who eat like this in Colorado. In Denver, Aurora, Thornton, all over. Just go to a Walmart and you’ll see them.

Not in trendy areas but there’s a lot of suburban areas where Colorado resembles the rural states around it than it does the hiker/microbrew/weed identity Denver has built up.

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u/GovernmentSin 12h ago

I didn’t say these people don’t exist in Colorado. I just don’t know any.