My girl, my girlfriend… or as K the ring bear (not bearer) likes to call her, “my soon to be wife” doesn’t eat meat but sure….. She sure doesn’t eat meat. She is what you would call a vegetarian. I myself like to kill my dinner, ask forgiveness from God and then devour the hopeless little animal. I prefer them fried.
When I go out for a nice dinner I like to get a steak, as my favorite customer from the Motor Boat Club used to say, should be “as rare as you dare.” Tasty. My mouth is watering as I think about it now. My girl, she won’t even touch fries that have been fried with ‘meat.’ I tell her it doesn’t matter; she gives me the “vegetarian look of death.” Little does she know that most restaurants fry fish and other meat with fries.
So with all this conflict over killing vegetables or killing animals, you would think we would have had fist fights, gone to court for restraining orders, or pivot PETA against the National Association for Beef Consumption, but no. It’s been as calm as yoga.
It’s hard to say, but I actually respect her ‘vegetarian-ism.’ It helps that she can cook a kick ass no-meat meal. She has made me a wonderful pasta primavera and we share a taste for the best cheese pizza in town from Joe’s pizza.
The next goal for me on her list is to get me to try soy: soy burgers, soy nuggets, soy hot wings. I keep teasing her that I rather go hungry than eat soy. Each time she brings up soy I think of mystery products that have fallen out of a mold to make it look like their meat counterpart. But honestly, (don’t tell her this, because surely she doesn’t read this) I am willing to try soy. Save a cow one day, and kill a soy bean the next. It might require a little doctoring up: Hot sauce, mayo, ketchup, horse radish, pickles, A1, mustard but I think I can do it.
I am hungry for a burger! Who wants to do lunch?
Drop me a line if you want to hook up for a sandwich at Monty’s, Shoo…seriously…
I want a beefeater.
Anyone else interested in a lunchtime rendezvous off Wabash?
Done deal. 12, Montys off of Wabash.
Already going to Suzie Q’s. Sorry. Too bad you guys can’t get “The Elbert” at Monty’s, which was a special sandwich a buddy made for me there. He said I was the only person ever to finish it.
It sucks to have a time constraint on your lunch hour doesn’t it? Is it really a lunch hour if your workplace only gives you 30 minutes for lunch. Wouldn’t it be your lunch half hour? or lunch 30 minutes?
K: Been there, did that, hated it…resigned.
Shoo: Coo. Noon it is.
Did you know that plants are living growing things too? Sure, they can’t read, write, and tell you funny jokes but they are born, live, mate (pollinate), and die just like “animals” do to. I enjoy chopping down a good asparagus stalk just as much as shooting prairie dogs popping out of their holes in Wyoming. Have you tried the possibly new soy chips, which are similar to greasy potato chips? I did and they are different but highly addicting once you start eating them. The chips are also very healthy.
Shoo, I know “your girl” and I know that she is a vegetarian. But is she against eating Animal Crackers??
Merf, I’m sorry but that one is old. I suggest returning to quoting Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Am I the only one reading these comments with the song from Dumb and Dumber floating around in my head? You know, “She don’t eat meat, but she sure likes the..”
Yeah, I probably am. Disregard this comment (just like any others I make)
Hey Shooey…that is kinda funny what Mark said considering what she said as Erin and I were walking out the door to dinner…Remember!!
wow. Haven’t thought about that song in a while. Mark, you just gave me flashbacks to junior high when I was at the heigth of my geekdom. Wish I could lunch with you boys.
I think that song has been brought up somewhere…. maybe not specifically on the blog though.
Remember that one time that we were at that one place and we did that one thing and that one person was like whoa and we were like yeah, that was fun.
Oh? Did I make reference to a song by Dead Eye Dick?
Whatever you do, do not eat a soy hotdog… it is by far the most disgusting thing i have ever attempted to eat!!! I dont know about the burger but the hotdog is nasty!! Just a fair warning!
Soy burgers aren’t bad. Geezy, how are you, girlie?
Eating soy is like 1 big freakin helping of Decatur served right up on your plate. The only thing that is even remotely decent is soy flour. Batter some chicken wings up in soy flower and poor lotsa hooters 911 sauce on them, and they taste just like the real thing. Otherwise, I would avoid soy at all cost.
Garden burgers are edible. Tofu is not. Ugh. Mushed beans. Ugh.
Oh, and I don’t know if Emily ever reads this, but I totally admire her for being a vegatarian. If I liked vegetables more, I’d be one too
ushually, if you put enough ketchup on something, it’s ediable. ushually
Yeah soy dogs are nasty. No matter what way you try to prepare them they just taste like crud. Soy burgers are good like the ones by Boca. Just don’t think of them as a meat substitute, think of them as their own entity.
Shower time.
Dirty, are we?
Sweaty is more like it.
So, Shoo, does your girlfriend ever hold your meat, or does she refuse to indulge in that as well??????
jessie loves dirty
Nattie - i think that the sensor is going to come out on that one
Jessie- im good give me a call when you get a chance!!
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Thanks for posting but keep trying.
Why is there good response to the posts in the morning and early afternoon but as the three o’clok bell rings its like a ghost town!
Because everyone is getting ready to go home from work. Or realizes that they have actual work to do and need to finish it before they leave for the day. 1 hour’s worth of work spread out over 8 hours is great.
The weekend is even worse for witty banter getting back and forth.