SO I am at the Doctors. Office today.
I like my Doc. He’s older, wise, doesn’t preach, and is genuinely concerned about my health. He gives advice, but not to the point of preaching at me when he knows I am not gonna follow it. (“Stop drinking cheap whiskey!”, etc)
So, in addition to the multitude of tests that I am about to undergo, he wants to discuss diet…
Asks me how healthy of a diet I eat..
“Well, doc, I’m not eating handfuls of lard and salt, but I could, of course, eat better”….(I actually eat a fairly decent diet, but only fairly…it could be better)
“Are you getting enough vegetables and fruits?”
Well, I could eat more fruit, but I have vegetables every day….in fact, every morning!”
“Every morning?”
“Yessir: Beans every morning”
“Beans?”
“Yep. 2, sometimes 3 cups”
“Really?”
“Yessir… Coffee”
“Coffee isn’t a vegetable.”
“By my book it is, Doc.
Coffee is a bean, beans are vegetables. Coffee is made from ground beans….ergo, coffee is a vegetable.”
He didn’t buy it. More broccoli and such for B.
He also didn’t buy the argument that vegetables are what food eats….
Thanks for the chuckle!
Sounds a lot like my Dr visits. Now I've got a witty riposte for him.
Corn is a vegetable. White lightning is the distilled essence of corn.