Riots, Not Diets. I was watching a documentary about the LA riot in 92, and had a strange realization. This could never happen today. Not because of better policing or awareness or whatever. It can't happen simply because so many people are too fat, they can't hold that kind of activity up for an hour, let alone days. A second thought was, while this happened during my lifetime, I have no memory of the time when people were that slim. Watching the footage, its a slice of average America at the time, and they are predominantly not fat. Sure, lots of slim people with no tone, but almost all of them were human sized. My general memory of people starts around 2000-2001, and all those memories have the majority fat. TL;DR: We had too much bread, so now we can't have circuses.