Muckraking was just beginning in those days, and a prying reformer came to live for a while at the Greasy Spoon.

He told us that so much grease in our food would kill us.

We were ignorant of dietetics; all we knew was that our stomachs cried for plenty of fat.

The reformer said that our landlady fed us much fat meat because it was the cheapest food she could buy.

Milk, eggs and fruits would cost more, and so this greedy cruel woman was lining her pocket at the expense of our lives.
The landlady was a kindly person, and she took the reformer's advice.
She banished the fat pork, and supplied the table with other food substitutes, but she was generous and gave us plenty of them.