why do "rednecks" refuse to eat healthy?

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Aye, there's the hilarity in this thread.

Q: Why do police have such a hard time solving redneck murders?

A: They don't have dental records and their DNA is all the same.

My Dad had been born in rural eastern Washington in 1921 - that is, the Old West had hardly ended by the time he had come into the world. The fact is though, my Dad and his family had originally lived in the Columbia basin area of Lincoln county, surrounded by Russian German farmers (as his family were), ranchers and cowboys, as well as the occasional former horse thieves and rustlers. Then, for reasons why I had never asked my Dad about (he has since passed away), his family had packed up and moved to what might be described as Washington state's hillbilly country further north in the state. With the experience of living among a bunch of crackers and rednecks who can perhaps be best described as closed minded and bigoted. Half the girls in his high school class had never graduated due to getting into the family way, despite feeling that their country morality was superior to everyone else'. And the ecstatic pentecostal worship of the locals was so irritating that he and his parents had to go all the way to Spokane for proper Lutheran worship. Needless to say, when my Dad left for an industrial job in Spokane, with a few exceptions of having to stay with his parents after his father had had a debilitating stroke, he never looked back at that back water s**thole. And I suppose my Dad's prejudice has colored my perception of countrified life.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Why not? Robert Briscoe, a Jew, was Lord Mayor of Dublin.

Erin go bragh.

ruveyn

[Irish joke]

But are you a protestant jew or a catholic jew?

[/Irish joke]

Ha!

I thought the term "redneck" applied to people who worked so much outside when it's sunny that their neck would turn red from all the work or sun. =/

Also, been eating Mueslix cereals for quite a while here, never had any milk-related problems. Just don't drink orange juice afterwards though. Creates the odd base-acid reaction in your stomach.

thats what I thought too. I never knew it was a derogitory word for Irish
I am Irish/Native American

Why did they call the Irish, rednecks?

Jojo

The English called the Irish rednecks because in the summer the back of their necks would turn red due to the fact that most Irish people are ginger and turn really red in the summer then go back to being pale white Joker is a ginger with red hair and pale white skin also the Irish immigrants that came to America where called rednecks for being potato farmers an poor.

Interesting.
My skin turns a copper-ish color with sun exposure...probably the native american in me.
My dad tans well like me, while his brother burns to a crisp.

However, I gave up intentional tanning 16 years ago, I still get alittle dark in the summer. But if I get dark enough, ppl start speaking spanish to me

It is interesting though, most of the Irish that imigrated to the US were fair-skinned, but native Irish (before English occupation) had a darker olive complexion with black or blackish-brown hair, some have sapphire blue eyes and are called black Irish. Bono of U2 is black Irish.

Because they don't like being spoken down to by upper-middle class metropolitan authoritarian media pipsqueaks. And to be honest I can't blame them.



There you go.

Damn it! I haven't had lunch yet, and that pic's gotten me hungry!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

More educated people eat healthy.

Less educated people eat unhealthy.

Where rednecks fall is up for debate.

BTW, in the US the term redneck came out of Appalachia in early 1900s. The coal miners there were on strike against the Mega Super Rich coal industry. (The large corporations of today are peanuts compared to the monopolistic conglomerates of early 1900s.) The coal industry hired armed Pinkerton's private detectives to force the miners to go back to work. The miners would have none of that so they armed themselves too and met force with force. To distinguish themselves they wore a red bandana around their necks. Hence a redneck.

Unfortunately, many rednecks of today have bought into the anti-union propaganda of the right.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Jojobean,

Coming originally from the deep south ( Georgia ) and as most all my friends ( not that I have many ) are rednecks, I have a unique perspective.

To them it is an association with liberals. As such they choose not to eat "liberal food."

There is also one other cause that I have noted as to why "Rednecks" generally have chosen less healthy culinary options; this cause being that junk food and unhealthy food are cheaper and many can't afford better food even if it wasn't "liberal food."

The fact is unhealthy food is cheaper, much much much cheaper generally and is often in the "comfort food" category. Plus "blue collar" folks often are ( after a lonnnnng day's work ) just too tired to go make something healthy to eat and just grab a burger and fries instead. Yes, less educated people often just grab the burger and fries, but many are just too tired to eat well, or should I say, to eat healthy, even if they know what is healthy.

I eat healthy much of the time, but I still love junk food. I get extremely cranky without chocolate and if that chocolate withdraw should rear it's ugly head, watch out!