obese restaurant patrons.

[redwing]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers - but please, don't be offended. He says he never even expected his plan to become law.

"I was trying to shed a little light on the number one problem in Mississippi," said Republican Rep. John Read of Gautier, who acknowledges that at 5-foot-11 and 230 pounds, he'd probably have a tough time under his own bill.

More than 30 percent of adults in Mississippi are considered it obese, according to a 2007 study by the Trust for America's Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention.

The state House Public Health Committee chairman, Democrat Steve Holland of Plantersville, said he is going to "shred" the bill.

"It is too oppressive for government to require a restaurant owner to police another human being from their own indiscretions," Holland said Monday.

The bill had no specifics about how obesity would be defined, or how restaurants were supposed to determine if a customer was obese.

Al Stamps, who owns a restaurant in Jackson, said it is "absurd" for the state to consider telling him which customers he can't serve. He and his wife, Kim, do a bustling lunch business at Cool Al's, which serves big burgers - beef or veggie - and specialty foods like "Sassy Momma Sweet Potato Fries."

"There is a better way to deal with health issues than to impose those kind of regulations," Al Stamps said. "I'm sorry - you can't do it by treating adults like children and telling them what they can and cannot eat."

[Ddavid from NC]

I guess I better pack a lunch when I pass thru this state.

[nebula]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers - but please, don't be offended. He says he never even expected his plan to become law.

But don't you know, this is how you deal with problems in society. You get big daddy government to fix the problem

[redwing]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers - but please, don't be offended. He says he never even expected his plan to become law.

But don't you know, this is how you deal with problems in society. You get big daddy government to fix the problem

[MorningGlory]

Can you imagine a waiter telling a robust, and equally hormonal, woman that she was too fat to eat in his restaurant? Or a 300 pound football player? Well, it would keep the emergency rooms busy.....

[Guest]

Can you imagine a waiter telling a robust, and equally hormonal, woman that she was too fat to eat in his restaurant? Or a 300 pound football player? Well, it would keep the emergency rooms busy.....

:24:

Especially if that robust, and hormonal lady happened to have a gun in her purse.

[ladypeartree]

I am just having mental pictures of some overweight spotty youth dressed as a waiter telling a middle aged couple that they cant eat cos they are too fat

[Guest Biblicist]

Bartenders can limit the number of drinks a drunk person can have, why not waiters too?

If a person goes to Old Country Buffet for lunch and stays till dinner, I'd say that person could be asked to leave.

[Bubba4J]

Bartenders can limit the number of drinks a drunk person can have, why not waiters too?

If a person goes to Old Country Buffet for lunch and stays till dinner, I'd say that person could be asked to leave.

[redwing]

Bartenders can limit the number of drinks a drunk person can have, why not waiters too?

If a person goes to Old Country Buffet for lunch and stays till dinner, I'd say that person could be asked to leave.

hope the buffet has a dolly to wheel them out on.