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Andy Rooney Was Drinking Lots Of Coffee Before It Was Good For Your Health
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Garth Johnston
Published Mar 28, 2011
Modified Mar 28, 2011
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One of our Sunday evening rituals, when football or basketball hasn't pushed 60 Minutes back so far that our TiVo doesn't grab the end of it, is to let out our inner curmudgeon along with the ancient and awesome Andy Rooney—seriously, it takes great skill to be that crotchety! So imagine how pleased we were to see him cite a post on Gothamist during his rant last night about how "drinking some things that used to be thought to be bad for us are now considered good and drinks which were thought to be good are now considered bad."
We're with you Andy—we can't wait for the study that tells us that pigging out on ice cream will lower our cholesterol.
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