Yup, pasta is ok. It’s not actually fattening as previously thought. Some of us knew this revelation would surface sooner or later. We sensed that whoever said Everything in Moderation, which for a long while was taken to be a good rule for life, might have had a point.
We had a hunch that micro-managing your diet like a jockey, treating party eats and pudding as if they were Novichok, was utterly pointless First World faffing. We knew this in our guts and yet we went along with it, all the same. We turned pasta eating into an act of reckless debauchery and self-harm.
Knowing this makes you wonder how many other modern received wisdoms we are living our lives by, while deep down knowing them...