Not enough stuff for obese people

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Despite there being a whole lotta obese people in the United States, there just isn't all that much stuff for them to buy. What? Yeah. Says Gawker: "Despite the fact that so many of us are hefty, companies have been slow to "roll out," and we mean that in a strictly business sense, products catering to the Large demographic (besides more food). Where are the extra-wide restaurant seats, the EZ-Glide Personal Transportation Vehicles in twelve new styles, the plus-size clothes that do not resemble garbage bags and/ or are, in fact, remodeled garbage bags? They are, for the most part, nowhere to be found." [Gawker]