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Historian's claim that sweet biscuits are preventive medicine amuses readers
Original: "Eating sweet biscuits could thus be seen as a form of preventive medicine, as a means of keeping the body in a state of
A passage from historian Lizzie Collingham's book 'The Biscuit' is being shared and laughed about online. In it she writes that eating sweet biscuits could be seen as a form of preventive medicine, keeping the body in harmony with the cosmos. Readers note the line is far funnier without its historical context, and it is circulating as a charming example of old-fashioned food reasoning.
Why now: The quote is being shared for its amusingly earnest framing of biscuits as healthful, out of context.
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