Today I went to Great America in Santa Clara for the first time in my life. I'm in my sixties and I wanted to go to Great America at least one time before I die.
It's not as though I don't live nearby. I live in San Francisco. I've lived in San Francisco most of my life, but I've never really understood the provincial nature of valley people. I spend most of my time in The City.
What a mistake I made in going to Great America!
Now, in fairness to Great America, the park was clean, well-patrolled, the rides were attractive and seemed safe and well-managed. If I were younger and interested, the rides would have been quite attractive. But for me it was a disappointing adventure.
It was disappointing because the people in the County of Santa Clara appear to believe that it is perfectly OK for them to bulldoze their entire county, destroy planet-nourishing farms and orchards, and then replace them with endless acres of blacktop parking lots as far as a car can drive before running out of gas.
Right in the middle of the ugliness rests Great America. It is a magnet for fatsos far and wide. They waddle in the gate and squeeze their ample butts through the turnstiles.
The majority of Great America devotees appear to be decidedly obese. Their body fat wiggles and jiggles when they waddle. It's a disgusting sight. As if the view is not bad enough, many of them wear far too little clothing for their far too much fat.
You should take a good look at what Great America feeds their puffy patrons.
I am not going to attempt to use my own words to convince you that Great America is lacking in nutritional intelligence. Rather, I would like to let them tell you the story themselves. The following is copied and pasted directly from the Great America website under Other Details to Think About: Dining:
"When it's time to eat there's lots to choose from. Enjoy the world-famous fried Chicken at Maggie Brown's. Kids will love the "Ruh-roh" meal at Shaggy™'s Snack Shack in KidZville. Families will also enjoy a whole new dining experience in the Nicktoons™ Café, a new restaurant located in the heart of Nickelodeon Central. Food Festival offers something for everybody in the family--an assortment of pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, French fries and much more. Plus enjoy churros, pretzels, cotton candy and other traditional favorites throughout the park."
If parents are stupid enough to buy and feed that kind of crap to their children, it should be absolutely no surprise to anyone that those parents - and their children - are malnourished porkers. Those parents, and their children need help - and lots of it - if they are to survive to a normal life expectancy.
God - I hope that's not really a portend of things to come for this country.
Osama bin Laden doesn't need to bomb us. He only needs to feed us into submission.
Watch this trailer for the movie, Fast Food Nation:
Resources:
Great America, Santa Clara
Great America's Guest Services & Dining
Fast Food Nation - Wikipedia article
Obesity in America
Time magazine: America's Obesity Crisis
Fast Food Nation - the movie
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3 comments:
I feel you on the disturbing nature of the bulldoze/parking lot/loss of decent agriculture phenom - and also on the ubiquity of horrid food in America, food that conniving tables of corporate suits have found ways to stuff down our throats with alarming alacrity.
But shoots, man, you're pretty harsh on those weak-assed "fatsos" and "cellulite mamas". I'm increasingly disturbed by how otherwise kind and thoughtful people feel no trace of inhibition in attacking those "disgusting" people who's "body fat wiggles and jiggles when they waddle," leprous people who assault the rest of us just by contaminating us with their presence - and even have the gall to have children and wear clothes that show off their body on a hot day! The HORROR!
Is there any other group you would bestow such self-righteous wrath upon? Probably not even smokers.
Maybe you are unfortunate enough to live in a world of anemic Barbies and Kens. But probably not. Most likely you too - like the rest of us - know and love a few "fatsos" and "cellulite mamas", and know them to be really good, giving, intelligent souls, without whom the world would be a more dismal place. Please give some thought to your words.
I feel you on the disturbing nature of the bulldoze/parking lot/loss of decent agriculture phenom - and also on the ubiquity of horrid food in America, food that conniving tables of corporate suits have found ways to stuff down our throats with alarming alacrity.
But shoots, man, you're pretty harsh on those weak-assed "fatsos" and "cellulite mamas". I'm increasingly disturbed by how otherwise kind and thoughtful people feel no trace of inhibition in attacking those "disgusting" people who's "body fat wiggles and jiggles when they waddle," leprous people who assault the rest of us just by contaminating us with their presence - and even have the gall to have children and wear clothes that show off their body on a hot day! The HORROR!
Is there any other group you would bestow such self-righteous wrath upon? Probably not even smokers.
Maybe you are unfortunate enough to live in a world of anemic Barbies and Kens. But probably not. Most likely you too - like the rest of us - know and love a few "fatsos" and "cellulite mamas", and know them to be really good, giving, intelligent souls, without whom the world would be a more dismal place. Please give some thought to your words.
How ironic to call people in the South Bay "provinial" only to admit "I spend most of my time in The City." Who's provincial?
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