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Hold the BBQ sauce, Bubba. The food gestapo is watching.
Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282 is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index.
I have spent several winters in Mississippi, and eaten some mighty fine vittles there. I've also learned that the average Mississippian is a no-bullshit individual with very little tolerance for being bossed around.
So I certainly would not want to be the employee at The Shed who had to disqualify a too-fat customer for a BBQ sandwich, or deny a pizza to a hungry customer at Mama Roni's in Vancleave. And I pity the server at Aunt Jenny's Catfish House who was stuck with telling someone they'd had their limit on an all-you-can-eat order of fried shrimp or catfish.
Much less being the poor copper who would be called to pick up the pieces after the irate customer had busted up the joint.
These three jokers, Mayhall, Reed and Shows must be transplants from New York City.
