So many surveys, so little time…
What would we have to talk about if it wasn’t for those endless surveys pitting Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri against competing cities and states?
Not much, apparently.
Two of the more interesting of late include The Top 20 Foodie Cities and Fattest States in America from the personal finance website WalletHub.
Cutting to the chase on the first one, KC didn’t make the list.
But that’s just the tip of this foodie iceberg.
Because not only did the Cowtown stagger in at 108th place, we got beat out by the likes of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (seriously?) in 98th place; Des Moines in 90th; Springfield in 79th; Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska at 76th and 74th respectively; and of course, St. Louis in 30th place.
Geez, who doesn’t have better food than KC, right?
Ah, but fear not, all is not yet lost!
Because when it comes to the fattest cities, Missouri came in 16th and Kansas 20th out of the 50 states.
The bottom line: the food around here may suck, but it seems to taste good to us!
“Geez, who doesn’t have better food than KC, right?”
– this gustatory taste bud has been approved by Steve Bono, the former area critique gastronomique (‘food critic’ to you unwashed KC types) and erstwhile QB the Chiefs.
Bono (whose best season was 1995 when he ranked 20th out of 30 NFL QB’s passer rating while playing her) was quoted thus: “the worst restaurant in San Francisco is better than the best restaurant in Kansas City” (Steve’s expertise gridiron on par his opinion local fare.) A certain second rate QB is no doubt chagrined that ‘The City by the Bay’ was judged no better according to WalletHub rankings; that San Fran rated 127th the affordability category however, priceless.
Speaking of throwing a city as players under the bus and catching flack, it could have been worse: Elvis Grbac the QB instead of Bono, would have proclaimed “I can’t dish and divine it too!”
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Dang.. missed the fattest city of the year again. We were number 1 once. Ahh the glory days when Kansas City was tops in the nation for something. Guess too many health clubs were built skewing the per capita number.