Maxim: Eat only those foods that spoil or rot or decay, but eat them before they do

[Garson O'Toole]

Barry examined the following saying and presented a 1968 instance in a
New Orleans newspaper.

Eat foods that spoil (just eat them before they do)

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/eat_foods_that_spoil_just_eat_them_before_they_do/

Here is match with a GB date of 1952. The volume number 11 accords
with the 1952 date. There is a snippet in the volume that says "Spring
1952". I have not verified this match on paper.

Periodical: The Land (alternative name: The Land & Land news)
Volume: 11
Year: Circa 1952
Publisher: Friends of the Land (U.S.)
GB Page: 391
(Unverified Google match; Data may be incorrect)
http://books.google.com/books?id=TuJCAQAAIAAJ&q=%22than+McCollum%22#search_anchor

[Begin extracted text]
There is no one who is more fitted than McCollum to advise the
profession and the public on questions of Nutrition; and his axioms
"Eat only those foods that spoil or rot or decay, but eat them before
they do" and "Eat what you should before you eat what you want" can
hardly be bettered.
[End extracted text]

The saying is attributed to "McCollum" in the passage above. This is
probably a reference to E.V. McCollum of the Johns Hopkins School of
Public Health. Here is a link to a 2000 article about E.V. McCollum in
The Gazette of Johns Hopkins. The article includes a version of the
saying credited to McCollum.
http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2000/oct0200/02mccoll.html

Garson

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