Just visited a fruit stand run by a farmer friend.

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52. You, like me grew up in the South.

You grew up better off, I grew up poor (I thought that Pizza Hut and Burger King was fine dining as a child, that is how poor we were). But both of us saw people eating food with lots of added fat and salt. Smoked pork makes any food taste better, but adding it to food extracts a price. Stuff was drenched with butter, I learned how to eat broccoli only because it was coated with warm butter sauce (I am sure that you saw that plenty at the fancy brunches you went to as a kid ). Regardless of income, southerners have tended to eat fat and salt laden foods, that has only recently started to change, but even as things change, I see a lot more overweight or morbidly overweight people than I see fit ones. One only need to look around, a chicken chain that sells less healthy food does at least three times the business of one that sells healthier fare. Both chains sell delicious food, so taste is no reason for the disparity.
My family is better off now financially, but the poor eating habits and tendency to be overweight persists, so much so that I am an outlier with my high fitness and low salt, low fat diet.