Seeing my wife totting up the carb and sugar content of her fruit intake today (to see whether she could finish the day with a square of chocolate, I think), I suddenly got a whole new insight into the backstory of the Jamaican ‘Day-O (Banana Boat Song)’.
“Come, Mister Tally Man, tally me banana.”
Could Harry Belafonte have been pleading for input from the Man from Weightwatchers?
(He was 96 when he died, so if he followed any diet, it must have been a good one.)
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