What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[prfsnl_gmr]

Truth: My Sister only eats at veggie only restaurants because at other restaurants a pot used to make her meal may have been the same pot that once was used to cook meat.

Her dining options must be exceptionally limited then, since to my knowledge, there are only four completely vegetarian restaurants in Charlotte (i.e., Bean, Fern, Luna's, and Woodlands). Moreover, most of these are in east Charlotte, near my home but far from your sister's location.

[Forlorn Drifter]

I really don't see how anyone becomes vegan/vegetarian. I really just don't. Meat tastes too damn good. Plus, I live in Texas and am more of an agriculture guy, and not eating meat in that field is seen as heresy. They burn you at the stake and feed you to wild hogs for that.

Two tests today and another tomorrow morning. I probably wouldn't mind if the SI sessions for the two tests today weren't on the same night. I should do OK on my Chem test today, but I'm not sure how my AgEco is going to go...

[Luke]

With a toddler and a baby, she doesn't go out to eat often. Plus she has her own hired cook.

She usually brings over her own meals when we visit our parents, which is silly for two reasons: It's usually a holiday meal that my parents days on planning, and my parents are terrific cooks. She will eat the pies and cakes though. Meat has never been in their pie pans. But she will use our flatware and plates.

She's just weird. But! She doesn't go about it in a dicky way at all. It's "No thank you" or "I just ate" or "I'm not hungry". And she does go out with friends to restaurants, and they already know what to expect. So she is in no way smug, she just has dietary issues, and also thinks that meat is disgusting.

Good on her for sticking to her guns, not being a jerk about it, not preaching about her views, and not forcing her views on others.

That said, if she thinks I'm eating tofurkey for Thanksgiving, she's lost it.

[BoneSnapDeez]

I was vegan for like a month. Back when I was 18 and really into straight edge hardcore. Anyone who has talked to me on AIM has seen my username that dates back to that era - xDavexCorex. Good lord.

I have considered going vegetarian for about a year now. Not for any political or health reasons. Meat has always been somewhat "whatever" for me. When I cook I end up making something vegetarian most of the time.

And seriously. Bacon. What the hell. Talk about the most overrated thing ever. I can tolerate it in a BLT but straight up bacon strips?... Ewwwww.... And how about bacon cheese burgers? A fatty piece of meat with more fatty meat piled on top? What are people thinking?!

[Luke]

I have considered going vegetarian for about a year now. Not for any political or health reasons. Meat has always been somewhat "whatever" for me. When I cook I end up making something vegetarian most of the time.

And seriously. Bacon. What the hell. Talk about the most overrated thing ever. I can tolerate it in a BLT but straight up bacon strips?... Ewwwww.... And how about bacon cheese burgers? A fatty piece of meat with more fatty meat piled on top? What are people thinking?!

I rarely drive steam boats and eat meat. Love meat, but eating healthier AND saving money? Sign me up.

Bacon dipped in apple butter is so good.

[Key-Glyph]

I've been vegan for two years now. It's not for everybody, but it's definitely for me.

I do think that too much emphasis gets put on "cheating" with diets, though. Even with conventional weight-loss dieting, so often people will cave on one donut, feel that they've completely failed physically and mentally, leap to the conclusion that it's all a lost cause and immediately toss the entire diet out the window. As alienjesus was getting at in his post, that's missing the point of the effort -- and that's true whether we're talking about weightwatchers or veganism.

On a related note, I do think it's weird how eating meat, especially in ridiculous quantities or ways, has its own cool/amusing/macho novelty factor to it. The double-down is funny, and people eat it because it's funny. I alway wonder why this is.

[Ack]

On a related note, I do think it's weird how eating meat, especially in ridiculous quantities or ways, has its own cool/amusing/macho novelty factor to it. The double-down is funny, and people eat it because it's funny. I alway wonder why this is.

Wait, wait, hang on here...

...people actually EAT the Double-Down? I always thought that thing was a myth, like Sasquatch or Dennis Kucinich.

[prfsnl_gmr]

On a related note, I do think it's weird how eating meat, especially in ridiculous quantities or ways, has its own cool/amusing/macho novelty factor to it. The double-down is funny, and people eat it because it's funny. I alway wonder why this is.

Although I am not a vegan, I love vegan food , and I think it would be pretty hilarious/macho to put an entire brick of baked, marinated Nasoya tofu between two sesame seed buns, slather it with guacamole, top it with three five strips of tofu bacon, and eat it.

(Seriously, my mouth is watering just thinking about this...)

[Mad_Hatter]

Yea. I'm not a vegan, but I enjoy not-meats more. I still eat meats though because my stomach will still growl if I don't. Usually a small piece of grilled chicken.

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[MrPopo]

If I tried to go vegan/vegetarian my diet would become nothing but spaghetti in marinara sauce. Meat is too big a part of what I eat.

I think Denis Leary put it best: "broccoli tastes like broccoli and eggplant tastes like eggplant, but meat tastes like murder and murder tastes pretty fucking good!"