(Sorry, Texans) Humorous Japan TV Report on HOUSTON Being "Obesity" Capital of USA (Streaming Video)

FNN News Network (Tokyo) Streaming Video (300k, Windows Media Player) ^ | 14 January 2005 | FNN News Network (Tokyo)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Japanese TV (FNN) ran a short report yesterday, highlighting the fact that Houston, Texas was voted as the US city with the most obese population.

The report runs about one minute. It does not seem to be particularly flattering of poor Houston, nor overweight people living there (some which are profiled by telephoto lens). The way the clip is done is interesting, if not somewhat humorous, and from a Japanese perspective of rare obesity (but wait 'til it comes to cigarette smoking).

At any rate, a short peek of how 'some' Americans are viewed and described, from overseas.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Go to the link, above (for a 300k streaming video in Windows Media format), or go to this URL (the URL may be up for another day but not much longer):

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/fnn/20050114/20050114-00000480-fnn-int.html

Sorry, Freepertexans....

[kenth]

In your face Milwaukee!

[subterfuge]

Fat bottom girls bump!

[handy old one]

Honest I'm not fat, I'm walking around in my short mode. It makes me wider

[TXBSAFH]

I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK!!!!

[FatherofFive]

World's best diet - No flour. No sugar. Everything else is OK.

You will be amazed how well this works.

Try it for a month.

[TXBSAFH]

I ahave the body of a God!!! Budda.

[rwfromkansas]

I am 5'5". I use that as my excuse for carrying around a couple extra pounds...

[Dog Gone]

Nice shots of some very large butts!

Of course, Houston won this honor based on everything EXCEPT weight. It's based on such factors as average commute time to work, number of fast food restaurants, air quality, and number of parks.

Being a lardass isn't even one of the criteria.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

I'm trying to imagine how much Houstonians are concerned about how they're perceived by the Japanese. The Land of the Rising Sun isn't exactly known for its vast fondness or familiarity with other cultures. When I was living in CHicago and traveling in Japan a few years ago, the Japanese would ask where I was from. When I told them "Chicago", they would point their fingers and make a "tommy-gun" noise like "ack-ack-ack-ack!", and say, "Ah, Chee-cah-go! Gangstahs!". I think Al Capone had been dead for fifty or sixty years at that time, but I didn't have the heart to tell them.

[Slings and Arrows]

Maybe they were trying to talk like Mayor Daley.

[jimbo123]

Isn't Tokyo the birthplace of the extra small size condom?

[Orange1998]

The title defined Subway as fast food restaurants while excluding fast food restaurants called Deli.

[satchmodog9]

lardbutt bump

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I agree with you, no refined sugars or refined flours....it is amazing.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I don't think she would look as bad if she wore clothes that fit her properly....more and more I am seeing women especially young women running around with clothes that are not appropriate for their shapes and sizes (ie hip huggers with a little belly flab hanging over).

[Busywhiskers]

Well....as they say..."Everything's big in Texas".

[ko_kyi]

mmmm...female newscaster....

[AmericanInTokyo]

Somebody had to the first (on this thread) to change the subject! :-)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yeah. Kinda' like (some) Americans actually have the nerve to inquire what the driving time from Tokyo to Hong Kong is, or "just where in Japan that Seoul is?".etc. etc.. :-0