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From: alan@mtxinu.UUCP (Alan Tobey)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: the food groups vs. the chinese
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 15:02:02 EST
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> Here at Valid, we have what is known as the "four Engineering food
> groups".  We try to eat some of each every day:
> 
> 1) Caffeine
> 2) Sugar
> 3) Salt
> 4) Grease
> 
> Note that by simply eating pizza and drinking Dr. Peppper you have
> satisfied all four groups!
>
Here in the Bay Area, there's a slight variant:  Nature's most nearly
perfect food is Irish Coffee, which supplies THESE four essential
food groups -- alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.  EVERYBODY knows
that salt is bad for you :-)!