In fairness to her, she was talking about eating the occasional fry, not making it a staple of her diet. But the reason she stated she can eat the occasional fry, and not rice, is that fries don't spike her blood sugar the way rice does. Since she's a type 2 diabetic, fries really are a better choice for her than rice, if she were being forced to choose between the two, which of course she isn't.

Anyway, it won't matter - it won't be long before Big Ag will threaten to pull their funding from the American Diabetes Association unless the CEO is given the axe (or is forced to shut up about low carb).

And attempts to silence this woman will result in even more mistrust of authority.

p.s. Not sure if you're implying the three men at the deli counter were suffering from paranoia or schizophrenia. Who knows? Maybe they are. But I took their conversation as an indicator that regular, every day Americans have seized onto a "fake news" mentality and are viewing with suspicion everything that comes from supposedly authoritative sources.