A Kitchen Conversation

 

“Soooooooo no meat, no oil, no nothing?”

 

                “Yep. That’s right.”

 

“How do you cook without oil?”

 

                           “I water saute’.”

 

“Huh.”

 

“So no dairy either?”

 

                “No.”

 

“No cheese?”

 

                “No.” [sigh]

 

“So then what do you eat?”

 

                “Everything else…”

 

“Do you eat…say… a veggie burger?”

“Not really but I have eaten them in the past. 

Generally I don’t’ seek them out as they are not the sort of thing I like to eat.”

“So what does your dinner plate look like?”

 

“I rarely, if ever, eat a traditional ‘dinner’ – if I eat at all.  More often than not I will have baby spinach with fresh veggies and humus. Or a vegan protein drink mixed with almond milk. Maybe a bowl of cereal or sometimes nothing at all as I don’t always eat when I arrive home after a long work day.

 

“You don’t eat? Why not????” [Contorted facial expression]

 

“Because when I arrive home, it’s usually 7:00 pm or 7:30 p.m. and by the time I feed the cats, sort through the mail, prep my outfit for the next day, clean up after the cats, it is usually 8:30 – 9:00 p.m. and that is too late for me to eat, especially if I want to be in bed by 9:30 at the latest.”

 

“Huh.  Well I just can’t wrap my brain around a vegan diet.”

 

“Watch undercover videos of animals being slaughtered — if that doesn’t turn you vegan, nothing will.  

😐

 

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This is the conversation I had today with a co-worker while I was  in the office kitchen heating up my lunch consisted of Rice & Rye paired with Potato, Cauliflower & Garbanzo Bean Curry.

IMHO, if you have to ask me what I eat, once you have removed: all animal flesh, ovaries and pus fluids, then you clearly do not have a clue about food.

Just sayin’.