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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2012-05-01 04:53 pm

Random question...

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!

[identity profile] badnoodles.livejournal.com 2012-05-02 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
I can't say that I was ever /taught/ that eggs fell into dairy, but I tend to think of them offhand as such, because they're kept in the dairy section. It's reinforced by iconography, which often groups milk and eggs together.

What's funny, though, is if you're talking about *protein* as opposed to *meat*, eggs automatically fall into the correct mental category.