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Introduction
“How many calories are you supposed to eat if you’re on a diet?” Tom said.
“About a thousand. Well I usually aim for a thousand and come in at about fifteen hundred”, I said, realizing as I said it that the last bit wasn’t strictly true.”
“A thousand?” said Tom incredulously. “But I thought you needed two thousand just to survive.”
“How many calories in a boiled egg?” Said Tom.
“Seventy- five.”
“Banana?”
“Large or small?”
“Small.”
“Peeled?”
“Yes.”
“Eighty”, I said, confidently.
“Olive?”
“Black or green?”
“Black.”
“Nine.”
“Hobnob?”
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