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OK Kansas, gravy is NOT a food group
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If there is one thing we like to do in Kansas, it’s eat.Admit it.We will actually drive out of our way to find a place to eat, and we’re not talking “nouvelle cuisine,” either.As Cookie said in “City Slickers:” “You ain’t gonna get any nouveau, amandine, thin crust, bottled water, sauteed city food. Food’s brown, hot, and plenty of it.”And that’s the way we like it.Hot.Brown.And plenty of it.We like chicken restaurants that actually impact the population of the species every time we sit down to eat.When we say we want a slice of cow, we mean a WHOLE slice of cow.Gravy really IS a food group in this state.Potatoes are health food, especially when they are fried — for breakfast.So it is probably not too surprising that Kansas is not at the height of the healthiest Americans list.According to a recently released health survey, Kansas is paying for the good food. It seems that the percentage of obese people in our state has doubled over the past 15 years.