We have come a long way since the famine.
Most Irish people want to be less fat, but can’t be arsed doing anything about it.
It doesn’t really hit you how fat the Irish population is until you travel abroad. One of the first things I noticed when I arrived in New Zealand was how thin the average person is over here compared with back home. I can recall being on holidays in Italy a few years ago and being asked by a Lebanese tour guide ‘how come all Irish males over the age of 35 have big fat beer bellies’. Perhaps we should try the Mediterranean diet for a change. Women aren’t much better than men - pint drinking women wearing ill fitting tank tops with bulging bellies on a Saturday night don’t exactly do wonders for sex appeal, beer goggles notwithstanding of course.
The school kids these days are noticeably fatter too. It doesn’t help the situation when you have overindulgent parents driving their kids everywhere.
Funny how we used to laugh at the Americans are being obese. By my estimate, we are only about 10 years behind America in terms of obesity. I’m sure we’ll eventually catch up with them someday in the not too distant future.