A Brief Conversation on Food

Setting: last evening, over a late dinner of fast food. I had a salad; Jeremy had fries and chicken nuggets.

Jeremy: What's that? (Pointing to a long slice of shaved
carrot.)
Me: That is called a vegetable. It's what people ate before chicken
nuggets were invented.

I don't think I've ever seen him eat a vegetable. No, I do not count a baked potato with a pound of butter and bacon bits as a vegetable. Food shouldn't have to be accompanied by blood pressure medication just to be able to survive it.