A Healthy Understanding Of The Unhealthy

(I’m attending a fairly typical pot-luck supper in the rural Midwest. The tables are groaning under loads of Italian beef, barbecued chicken, sausage and peppers, cole slaw, potato salad, macaroni and cheese, Frito salad, five-cup salad, deviled eggs, and half a dozen different desserts.)

1st Guest: *after polishing off his first plateful* “You know, I’m trying to eat healthy, but somebody brought Scotcheroos.”

2nd Guest: “Well, they have rice; that’s a grain.”

3rd Guest: “And peanut butter’s a protein.”

2nd Guest: “Chocolate comes from beans, and beans are a vegetable.”

1st Guest: “Works for me!”