I have a vague memory of the late 1970’s in Middle America where every female member of my extended family was on a daily diet — at least when in the public company of others. The standard 1970’s diet plate — in case you need reminding or edification — consisted of the following:

• A lump of cottage cheese
• A lean, grey, paper-thin “extra lean” hamburger patty on wilted lettuce
• One slice of tomato
• One canned peach slice in light syrup
• Non-sweetened iced tea, weakly brewed

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