[Sca-cooks] meat "substitutes"- Rant

[bonneoftraquair at netscape.net]

>I remember, a number of years ago, I visited friends
>who had decided to become vegetabletarians, and for
>three days, all we ate were bean-sprout type salads-
>on the 4th day, I went into town and devoured an
>entire greasy Yankee-style pseudo-fried chicken, with
>a couple of bunless burgers on the side, and I HATE
>greasy meats. OTOH, I'm not a vegetarian, merely an
>omnivore who (normally) likes lots of fresh veggies
>and such.

Sounds like your hosts were !) not very good cooks,  there's plenty out there without being so boring.  ,2) Maybe this was during that era when everyone depended upon 'Diet for a Small Planet' to learn how to eat no meat without risking nutritional disaster.  I've never eaten a recipe from that book that was tastier than eating the page would have been. The world of American vegetarian cuising has come a loooong way since then.


>
>Why can't the vegetabletarians just eat what they want
>to eat (or not eat) and leave the rest of us alone to
>enjoy our own dinners, with or without red meat, white
>meat, fish, shellfish, eggs, milk, cheese, hot
>peppers, nuts, fungi, saffron, eggplant, or (shudder)
>bell peppers?

I think it's an offensive defensive stance.  Many people who become vegetarians spend a long time convincing those that love 'em that this dietary change is not going to cause them any harm.  So the usual way of discussing the topic is forceful reassurance.

Bonne (who quite agrees with Phlip about the bell peppers!)
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