The "No Ice Cream Diet"

Our 15-year-old annoys us with that typical teen-age deadpan, supremely self-assured attitude, quick to point out how dumb adults are. Offsetting it in her case, however, is a cool sense of humor. We watched her scowl at a TV commercial that attempted to evoke appeal for low-calorie ice cream, touting the product as a marvelous component of most any diet plan.

Alison, repulsed at the thought of low-calorie ice cream, intoned, "Here's a diet plan: Don't eat ice cream."