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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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[cajunbaby86.livejournal.com]

That's the first I've ever heard of eggs being classified with dairy. I grew up with the eggs being placed with the meat and beans group. I'm looking at my nutrition textbook right now; this is what the new 'MyPyramid' looks like:

The meat group (purple) has been renamed "Meat and Beans" in the book, but online it's also labeled as the "Protein Group". They still stick the eggs with the "proteins". What's interesting is that the diagrams of other countries' food guidance charts also list eggs with the meats. In every one of them, the dairy and meat sections are next to each other too.