>>>>Driving home from teaching a class this evening, stopped at a Quiznos for the very first time. Had a prime rib & peppercorn sub, no onions. Oh, man, I will NEVER eat at Subway again!!! That sub was DEEEEEEE-licious.
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>>>Yep. A Subway sub is like eating a salid on a bun compaired to Quizno's. It costs a buck or two more but I think it's worth it because the food is so much better.
>>We have Subway here but not Quinzos. Maybe I should be first to open up a franchise here. Help make us all fat like Americans :-)
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>http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-forbeslife-cx_ls_0208worldfat_2.html
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>USA #8
>Great Brit. # 28

Not surprised to see your Tongas and Samoas up there, as they've traditionally revered fatness as a beauty. I am surprised to see sport-mad Oz up there above the UK (and even more so NZ). It's interesting to note that we're the fattest of the Europeans, besides the Greeks. Maybe that's because we most follow the US in diet. I'd be interested to know WHAT type of overweight we have though. Oh, I know we have our fair share of women shaped like pear-shaped pillow cases of hammers but maybe the majority of fat you see on men is the "beer belly" type: intra-abdominal, fat-studded greater omentum, as opposed to sub-cutaneous.