My theory is some kid from a strict catholic household made it up so he wouldn't have to finish his milk before leaving the dinner table and the lie just snowballed from there.
This kid was so convincing that they took him to a renowned physician who was also fooled and concluded that the parents had to keep him away from a whole host of dairy products.
Then the child tells his schoolmates how to get out of drinking milk and suddenly all the local physicians are flooded with this supposed epidemic.
Little did the young boy know that he had just black balled himself from ice cream and other tasty deserts but it was too late. The punishment was severe for lying in his house and he was stuck with his story.
Meanwhile word of lactose intolerance (then called milk mania) spreads to medical journals and conferences. People start believing they really have this new condition. Much like depression, anxiety, diabetes and breast cancer, a bunch of people jump on the band wagon. So now a bunch of sad bastards, worry worts, candy eaters and chicks who never got felt up have a new "condition" that totally enables them.
*** I realize that I neglected my blog for the rest of the summer. So here's some pics of my Mage from Order and Chaos: a hot Elven Wizard exploring some new and far off lands. (She needs to be checked for breast cancer.)
And here's a pic from this years Renaissance Festival!
And my beloved Minneapolis at the end of an Indian summer.
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