No one knows for sure. The comic doesn’t portray them as people who have a lot of money, so it’s a mystery how they can overeat to have that much weight.
Lots of poor people are overweight. It doesn’t have so much to do with how much they eat, exactly, but more the fact that high-calorie low-protein foods are generally cheaper.
As for why the Pluggers characters, in particular, are overweight, that’s just history. Today’s character, for example, is the main character in the strip, and has been a bear since the beginning. Bears are always a bit on the roundish side, don’t you think?
I agree! Poor people have very limited money for food, so they buy lots of pasta, peanut butter, not much fresh veggies, chicken or meat because it is too expensive. The pastas and rice are filling but they add the pounds on.
First, she is’t skinny, second some animals are naturally large, to equate being large with being rich, as in the term FatCat, that sounds more like class envy and class warfare. Look at what they are having for dinner, with water to drink. As to what poor people eat, go to a food bank sometime, lost of starch, cheese, pasta, and the veggies? most of that ends up in the trash. I know, I collect the trash.
Being a Plugger doesn’t mean your poor. They’re just everyday people who go to work and pay their own way. A vacation to them is going to visit family. Besides if the bear was hungry he’s eat the rabbit!!
Until the last few decades, poverty was universally associated with people being starving and emaciated. These days if you asked your average American what it’s like to be in extreme poverty, they’d describe 400-pounders using food stamps to buy junk food and sugary soft drinks.
I think McGehee has it right. Having bread and potatoes/root veggies and cereal grains as diet mainstays rarely makes people fat - look at poorer populations around the world, and photo essays of impoverished American in the past; rarely grossly obese. It’s the fat and sugar used with those foods, and processed food (high in cost per pound) that does more harm. And sedentary lifestyles make things worse….
Mike B you got it! Pluggers are just everyday average schmucks like most of us. Word hard to pay your bills, try to give your kids something better, and wait for the government to come in and take it!
Yeah, it could have something to do with poor people generally having to gravitate towards low-nutrition starches. Or it could have something to do with Pluggers taking pride in their “Breakfast of Champions” (twelve Krispy Kremes) or their ability to balance entire pizzas on their enormous guts while watching television.
i_am_the_jam over 15 years ago
No one knows for sure. The comic doesn’t portray them as people who have a lot of money, so it’s a mystery how they can overeat to have that much weight.
farren over 15 years ago
Lots of poor people are overweight. It doesn’t have so much to do with how much they eat, exactly, but more the fact that high-calorie low-protein foods are generally cheaper.
As for why the Pluggers characters, in particular, are overweight, that’s just history. Today’s character, for example, is the main character in the strip, and has been a bear since the beginning. Bears are always a bit on the roundish side, don’t you think?
Jolly1995 over 15 years ago
I agree! Poor people have very limited money for food, so they buy lots of pasta, peanut butter, not much fresh veggies, chicken or meat because it is too expensive. The pastas and rice are filling but they add the pounds on.
Bill_Wa over 15 years ago
First, she is’t skinny, second some animals are naturally large, to equate being large with being rich, as in the term FatCat, that sounds more like class envy and class warfare. Look at what they are having for dinner, with water to drink. As to what poor people eat, go to a food bank sometime, lost of starch, cheese, pasta, and the veggies? most of that ends up in the trash. I know, I collect the trash.
bredbox over 15 years ago
Being a Plugger doesn’t mean your poor. They’re just everyday people who go to work and pay their own way. A vacation to them is going to visit family. Besides if the bear was hungry he’s eat the rabbit!!
McGehee over 15 years ago
Until the last few decades, poverty was universally associated with people being starving and emaciated. These days if you asked your average American what it’s like to be in extreme poverty, they’d describe 400-pounders using food stamps to buy junk food and sugary soft drinks.
prasrinivara over 15 years ago
Mike B, I think that’s a kangaroo (of Eastern Grey persuasion) rather than a rabbit.
arceedee over 15 years ago
I think McGehee has it right. Having bread and potatoes/root veggies and cereal grains as diet mainstays rarely makes people fat - look at poorer populations around the world, and photo essays of impoverished American in the past; rarely grossly obese. It’s the fat and sugar used with those foods, and processed food (high in cost per pound) that does more harm. And sedentary lifestyles make things worse….
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 15 years ago
Mike B you got it! Pluggers are just everyday average schmucks like most of us. Word hard to pay your bills, try to give your kids something better, and wait for the government to come in and take it!
achtungkitten over 15 years ago
Yeah, it could have something to do with poor people generally having to gravitate towards low-nutrition starches. Or it could have something to do with Pluggers taking pride in their “Breakfast of Champions” (twelve Krispy Kremes) or their ability to balance entire pizzas on their enormous guts while watching television.
mrprongs over 15 years ago
They’re not fat, they’re just big boned.
fairportfan over 15 years ago
Hey - was none - translate it yourself: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
fairportfan over 15 years ago
*RK* - how appropriately rude.
anserman38 over 15 years ago
Why does everybody have to analyze a simple comic strip?