I just spent a week as a vegetarian. No meat, no fish. Could I do this for a lifetime? No way.
As the BFF reminded me, if we weren't meant to eat meat, God wouldn't
have made it taste so good.
The week was not easy. I
had a to order a veggie slice. If you
can't have pepperoni, it's almost not worth bothering.
Then for a couple nights, a piece of spinach quiche with a side salad. Salad has an upside for me – even with my
limited cooking skills, it's one thing I make quite well (no chance of burning
it).
Sushi without the raw fish – well, it isn't sushi. The cucumber rolls were a poor substitute, so
again, I added a side. (Oh, shush – it's
a serving of fruit.)
It's just not vegetarianism if you're not inconveniencing
someone. When I advised the BFF of this
week's never-tried-before adventure (my Friday nights are spent at her dinner table),
the response was predictable - "well then the chicken goes back in the
fridge". This must happen to every
meat-eater at least once in their lifetime.
We had veggie enchiladas instead – my first one of those, too. It was very good. Hope she makes them again sometime (with beef).
We just celebrated a milestone birthday for the BFF, at a
restaurant I'd never been to before (even though I've lived within a 15-minute
drive of it for 30 years). Platters of
chicken wings appeared. My eyes welled
up when the aroma hit me...
Thank goodness 2 of the 4 main food groups contain no meat. (You use your food guide; I'll use mine.)
This has likely been pondered many times, but I think it bears restating
– how come when a vegetarian/vegan comes to your house for dinner, you are expected to serve a meal that caters to their lifestyle and you won't enjoy
that much, but when you go dine at their house, you have to eat
tofu and dandelion shoots because that's what the host eats. I understand they won't eat a burger, but
can't they serve you one, respecting your
lifestyle? Which by the way supports the
multi-billion dollar beef industry. I'm
sorry about all the cow farts, but isn't McDonalds bringing us all closer
together on this great, big global village we call Earth?
Leonardo DiCaprio makes about $25 million per movie. I hear he's a vegetarian. But for his latest film, "The
Revenant", to make one particular scene look completely realistic, he
actually ate raw bison liver. This makes
sense. Because you'd have to pay me $25
million to eat liver of any kind.
One Thing That >50 Me Has Learned Along the Way...
At some point, almost everybody needs a job. Even dumb-dumbs and people with the
motivation of a flea. So stop slamming
Wal-Mart. They hire people that no-one
else will hire.
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