[size=small]...During the Civil War, the diet here in the South was notable for its two primary constituents: Pork and Corn. The pork was mostly potted, salted and smoked and the corn was lie-soaked, dried and ground...other wise known as "hominy meal," or as we in Dixie lovingly refer to it, "grits".
At the time, most Yankee soldiers were forced to live off the land, stealing...er, rather "commandeering" from the locals such comestibles as could be found. Invariably this was the above mentioned foods and came to be derisively known by the liberating troops as "Hog and "Hominy" - a diet they soon tired of and were eager to leave behind once they got home to more civilized foodstuffs.
Well, there are few foods a good Southerner likes more than fried porkchops with gravy, collard greens and fatback, all accompanied by a large hunk of fresh baked cornbread. The modern day equivalent of Hog and Hominy.
And while such a diet is delicious and sustains life quite well, it also tends to "fatten-up" the eater!
So, to put it plainly, chubby people dont lose rings. If anything, they tend to swell up and any rings they may be wearing become firmly stuck, nay EMBEDDED, on their pudgy fingers.
I refer to this phenom as the "Hog and Hominy Effect," clingling stubbornly to it as the reason why I dont find as many rings as my fellow dirt-diggers.[/size]