Old Mother Hubbard's Bare Cupboard - Blame the Diet Experts

Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her doggie a bone,
When she got there
The cupboard was bare...

...that's because a 21st century diet expert had paid Mother Hubbard (who lived 100 years prior) a visit and tossed all the *unhealthy* stuff out of her pantry cupboard:

•  Salt
•  Butter
•  Sugar
•  Milk
•  Bread
•  Flour
•  Eggs
•  Meat
•  Coffee 

 All that was left, it seems, were a few apples, not enough, even at the rate of "an apple a day" to keep the doctor away.

Seriously: If you went by what the modern diet experts said, very little would be left in the pantries from yester-year. The list of *healthy* stuff is shrinking fast.

(It's a pity the starving people in Ethiopia didn't have access to Old Mother Hubbard's Cupboard. The dieticians there would have a different mantra, I'm sure. Something like "It's all good")

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