shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - May 07 2008 | food, culture, news
While this raises some good points about stupid questions people ask vegetarians (and even stupider assumptions that are made), I'm annoyed that it doesn't even consider religious/cultural vegetarians.
Quoted: Every vegetarian remembers his first time. Not the unremarkable event of his first meal without meat. No, I mean the first time he casually lets slip that he's turned herbivore, prompting everyone in earshot to stare at him as if he just revealed plans to sail his carrot-powered plasma yacht to Neptune.
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