You’re 86? What do you know about nutrition?

A geriatric revolt ensues after a do-gooder coordinator of nutritional services for the Putnam county’s “Office for the Aging” – talk about an Orwellian sounding title – puts an end to the goodies that were being delivered to the William Koehler Memorial Senior Center.

Protestors – average age 86 – were peeved that there were no more “free doughnuts, pies and breads.” Officials claim they were concerned that the county was setting a bad nutritional precedent — as if the rest of Putnam County is following the lead of a senior center. When the numskull at the Office for the Aging lives as long as these folks do, hey, we should listen to what he has to say.

The picketers said they were objecting not to a lack of sweets but that they weren’t consulted about the ban.

“Lack of respect is what it’s all about,” said Joe Hajkowski, 75, a former labor union official who organized the demonstration.

He said officials had implied that seniors were gorging themselves on jelly doughnuts and were too senile to make the choice for themselves.

C. Michael Sibilia said, “I’m 86, not 8.”

Of course, the reporter digs up food fascist Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, who ridiculously claims “Senior citizens can walk down to the store and buy doughnuts. Nobody’s stopping them.”

As if it were any of his business how an adult – in this case an elderly adult — obtains their food. Then again, I guess these days it is his business.