May 4, 2000 --11:02 PM EST
Yeeha!
That's a first! Every single one a
happy face. That's never happened!
Here's what I ate
yesterday:
- 2 cups Italian bean stew
- 1 can peaches in pear
juice
- 2 cups barley-lentil soup
- 1 drink pak Cafe Westbrae Mocha
Coffee beverage
- tofu stir fried in sesame oil
and topped with hoi sin sauce
- 1/2 cup cooked green beans
- 1 cup long grain brown rice
- Luna Bar Tropical Crisp
flavor
- 2 L water
Talked to Shawn on the phone last
night and apart from other stuff we were discussing he was perplexed as to what
I eat as a vegan after I told him I saw the dietitian.
"So you are like a strict
vegetarian now."
"Yes, mostly
vegan."
"You can't have french
fries."
"Why not?"
"Aren't those cooked in
animal fat?"
"Not if they are cooked in
vegetable oil!"
"You can't eat
chocolate."
"Sure I can. Chocolate is
cacao beans -- that's vegan."
"I thought chocolate had
milk."
"MILK chocolate has milk.
That's not the only chocolate in the world. "
"You can't have peanut
butter."
"Why not? It's just
peanuts."
"But don't they put things in
it?"
"Er...peanuts....sugar...oil..."
"Isn't the oil
bad?"
"You need to get over this
oil thing. Not all oil means animal fat. Where do you think olive oil comes
from? Sesame oil? Corn oil? Safflower oil? Peanut oil?"
"Ok, ok, ok. [pause] You
can't have bread."
"Why not?"
"Eggs."
"You ever made
bread?"
"You mean like in a little
machine thingie?"
"No, I mean like in an
oven!"
"The machine thingie tells me
to put in eggs."
"That's for recipes that call
for egg. There are many bread recipes that don't."
"Eggs make it
fluffy."
"Yeast makes it
fluffy."
"You can't eat anything, can
you?"
"I'm telling you I eat a lot
of things!"
"Like what?"
"Ordinary stuff. Baked
potato. Spaghetti."
"Aha! You can't have
spaghetti! It's got eggs!"
"Not that I'm aware
of,."
"All spaghetti has
eggs."
"I beg to differ. Egg pasta
has eggs, but other pasta does not. I guarantee you that my spaghetti is
egg-free."
"How can there be spaghetti
with no eggs?"
"What's the matter with you?
All that's needed is semolina flour and water to make pasta. A touch of oil
maybe. No need for egg."
"I just can't see it
is all. I can't see how you eat. I couldn't eat with you."
"Why not? Paul's
non-vegetarian and he eats with me fine."
"I just can't picture it!
It's so confusing! I could never date a vegetarian girl. Taking her out to eat
would be too weird."
"Why would that be a problem?
You could just pick a restaurant that could deal with both eating styles. Then
it's up to her what she orders, not you."
"Argh! Too strange! Can't
deal with it!"
It's been a long while since I
talked to somebody who was that confused about what veg*nism is about.
Extremely funny to me.
~Astrophe
  
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