gendoikari87 wrote:you know thanks to this thread, i've decided to pick up at least one aspect of a vegan diet: No Cheese. I'm going to give it a trial run, and if it works, I'll give it up for good.

We switch to vegan every once in a while, for about a month. In that time we start feeling better and better, a kind of internal lightness. It feel really good, a cleansing feeling. A month is about all we can do though, I get sick of salad and start craving a steak, then we go back to our usual mostly-vegetarian-for-health-reasons-but-get-to-eat-meat-when-we-go-out status.

This thread is as good a place as any to say this:

I just looked at the menu for the beer hall in Portland where folks will be getting together on Saturday night. They list meaty sammiches and veggie sammiches. The deluxe veggie sammich is definitely the best looking thing on the menu.

AmirMortal wrote:To be fair, I do enjoy many vegetarian dishes, but I look at them as one more item on my options list and NOT as a replacement for another. I enjoy Boca Burgers, but not fake bacon... So I put real bacon on mine.

A useful portmanteau, "facon," (FAke BaCON).

There are the ones that just eat their veg/vegan diet and don't make a fuss, then there's the crowd that brings some flavorless stuff rabbits would pass up as too bland to a pot-luck, then smack their lips and make yummy noises over it, telling each other how good it is.

Those things always need salt, too. Maybe I'll start carrying a bottle of bacon bits with me.