In “Baby Got Back,” his ode to prodigious posteriors, rapper and amateur dietician Sir Mix-a-Lot provides some nutritional advice to those seeking an ample booty. Of his dream woman, he notes, “red beans and rice didn’t miss her.”
It is unclear whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or his brain worm is a bigger fan of early 1990s hip-hop, but either way, they took notice of Mix-a-Lot’s culinary preferences. In early versions of the government’s “food pyramid,” rice was prioritized as a healthy staple of American diets; yet in the updated version recently unveiled by Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services, grains (like rice) have dropped below meats and vegetables, deemed “essential” to a healthier diet. Evidently, under the previous guidelines, too many of America’s babies had back.
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