Southern folks follow the finish your plate mentality, but all the vegetables come fried or cooked in bacon.  Wash it all down with Coke or tea flavored sugar.  It's hot as balls, so everyone stays inside molding to their couch.  The heat and lack of big cities means everyone thinks it's normal to get in your car to drive two blocks away.  There isn't much to do since the land is flat and landlocked, so entertainment revolves around eating.