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So, when you were a kid and in school, if your school taught the Four Basic Food Groups (Meat, Dairy, Veg, Grains, or something like that), into which group did eggs fall?

I was taught eggs went into the Meat category (which was basically Protein, and they sort-of handwaved beans). I have more than once run into people who were taught eggs were Dairy. For no reason I can figure. I once, in seventh grade, got into an argument with a girl who lived near my grandparents' house over this very subject: she did not respond well to my clearly correct argument that Dairy came from cows, so eggs weren't Dairy.

Nowadays, I point out that if it didn't start out with lactose, it's not dairy, but I did have a husband who shall remain unidentified once offer me Lactaid with eggs, as he was reverting back to his primary-school programming that eggs went into the dairy category.





Hey, he made me the eggs! I am not complaining!

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[weirdquark]

I was taught eggs go in the meat category.

We even put on a play about the four food groups where the food argued about which was the most important. I was an orange. (The Big Cheese was the leader of the dairy group. (Third grade. What can you do?)) I think the food concluded that we were all important and needed to work together but that's based more on how these things tend to work than actual memory of anything that went on.

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I don't think we ever got that creative. I may have contributed to a poster illustrating the concept that graced the walls of the classroom.