What Dost Thou Eat?

In the 1970s, when we were in college in Victoria, we had friends who were into various diets, including the Zen Macrobiotic Diet, the Mucusless Diet, the Paul Bragg Diet, the Atkins low-carb high-protein diet, and the vegetarian diet, among others. Each diet specified foods you should eat and foods you should avoid.

One of our group, who just ate what her mother fed her, decided to write a paper about this for her sociology class. For the paper, she added up all the 'should avoids’ of the different diets to see what they summed out at.

Study conclusion: if someone followed all those diets simultaneously and avoided all the forbidden foods in each, they would be left with one 8-ounce glass of water per day.

She got an A for her paper. Her professor told her to read Aesop's fable—The Miller, his Son, and the Donkey—the world is full of backseat drivers: She got an A for her paper. Her professor told her to read Aesop's fable—The Miller, his Son, and the Donkey—the world is full of backseat drivers: we have to figure things out for ourselves.

~ John