A condescending article in Esquire ca. late 1930s about Pennsylvania Dutch cooking described the local gentry as weighing eight to the ton. I no longer know whe

A condescending article in Esquire ca. late 1930s about Pennsylvania Dutch cooking described the local gentry as weighing eight to the ton. I no longer know where I read this. I would add the current Americans on the average are not only heavier but taller. I and some of my cousins have sons considerably taller than we are. (I--a boomer--am 6', my son is 6'4"; a cousin is perhaps 5'10" with one son 6'4", and another who at last viewing seemed to be on the way to that height.)