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[telophase]

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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[telophase.livejournal.com]

I was taught this (and the girl I got into an argument with) before the pyramid came into use, so that wouldn't have been the case for us. Our chart was a box divided into four smaller boxes with two crossed lines, and one food category put into each box, in no particular order. We were supposed to eat some from each food group each day; I don't remember if we got into the details of servings, but I don't think so. Fats/sweets were just collected into a random category that we were supposed to eat sparingly, I think.