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This line, the Brofanity naturally bleeped for network television,

was the inciting incident in the Seinfeld season 5

episode the non-fat yogurt in which a delicious fat-free treat leads to Jerry Seinfeld's

explicit outburst in front of an easily influenced child.

Like many Seinfeld episodes, it spoke to a then-Zite Geistymania, the low-fat diet, which doctors

a nutritionist of the era pushed as a template for healthy eating. The now

discredited dogma led to products like Nabisco's snackwells, a Devil's Food

Cookie with zero deadly fat, but loads of harmless high-f harmless high fructose corn syrup which sold like

shitty hot cakes to desperate dieters. But while the non-fat yogurt reflected an

eating trend of the moment a different Seinfeld episode was more prescient about the culinary future.

Season 6's The Big Salad centered on George, thanklessly buying Elaine the titular entree-sized portion of leafy greens.

The notion of a big salad was relatively novel at the time.

While salads were common as appetizers or sides, an entire meal of dress lettuce seemed exotic.

So much so that in the season six episode, The Soup,

not to be confused with the even more famous season seven episode, The Soup Nazi, when Elaine was exiled from her beloved

monk's diner and forced to eat at rival Regis, the server was baffled by her

pleas for a big salad. But in the 2000s, as Seinfeld yielded to curb your enthusiasm, the low-fat diet yielded to the

Atkins diet, as dietary fat was unshackled from belly fat and carbs became enemy number

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