Let's revise our old offensive stereotypes about who's been hogging all the watermelons

[struggle4progress]

Naturally, in our rush to construct new offensive sterotypes, we should consider the scientific evidence, so read this:

Factors Affecting Watermelon Consumption In the United States
Gary Lucier and Biing-Hwan Lin
Vegetables and Specialties: Situation and Outlook
Economic Research Service USDA
November 2001

Here's what I learned from Table A-2 on page 27:

Non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks are getting less than 90% of their fair share of the nation's watermelons; Hispanics are getting 30% more than their fair share; and the remaining ethnic groups are eating 189% more than their fair share!

Rich people and poor people are getting about 90% of their fair share of the nation's watermelons; and the middle class is eating 15% more than their fair share!

Southerners are getting barely 80% of their fair share of the nation's watermelons; Northeasterners and Midwesterners are getting about 90% of their fair share; and Westerners are eating 37% more than their fair share!

Men are getting only 97% of their fair share; and women are eating 3% more than their fair share!

My proposal for a new offensive stereotype: Middle-class non-hispanic Western women, who do not consider themselves either black nor white, love watermelon!

[NYC_SKP]

1. WTF?! "Others" are 4.4% of population but eating 12.7% of OUR Watermelons!!!

That's 289% TOO MUCH!!!

Others, consider yourselves on NOTICE!

[struggle4progress]

2. They are devouring the heart of our national greatest and just spitting out seeds!

[Schema Thing]

3. NIMBY-OP

[LumosMaxima]

4. I'm probably screwing up the stats for non-Hispanic whites & midwesterners.

I don't like watermelon & never eat it. I might have scooped up a piece from a salad bar at some point in the last twenty years, but what I was really going for was the cantaloupe.

[struggle4progress]

6. Well, I'm a non-Hispanic white male in the South, and I love watermelon

But the point of the stereotype is to offer lazy fug-heads the opportunity to believe they can know something about other people without all the bother of interacting with them

[dsc]

5. You all can have my share of the watermelon

but when it comes to the fried chicken, I will cut you.

[struggle4progress]

7. That might be why the Triangle group never holds its meetups at Church's or KFC

[pipoman]

8. I think it's more about economics

It is a cheap high volume produce in season. Last year I bought somewhere over 150 in 60 days from a local grower, it was all 300 retired, predominantly white, middle class people wanted.

Oh, In the same time, the same people ate over 500 cantelopes from the same grower. .

[struggle4progress]

10. I wonder why local GOP chairmen around the country haven't been sending out emails

showing retired middle class white folk dressed as monkeys eating watermelon

[JI7]

11. in los angeles many hispanics sell the watermelon as a snack

along with some other fruit. it's good for those who want something healthy instead of usual junk like the hot dogs. although the hot dogs are really good.

[struggle4progress]

12. I do all this research to come up with an offensive new stereotype, and then folk like you

come into my thread to contradict me!