My previous posts have all advocated vegetarianism and healthy eating, so this post may come as a shock to some. As much as I would like to pretend I am a snobby eater and a health nut, I do have some skeletons in my closet...or rather, pantry.
Before I became a vegetarian a few years ago, I was a card-carrying member of the carnivore club. I had a longtime love affair with meat, so much so that relatives would know to give me the fatty pieces of turkey skin on Thanksgiving or a particularly juicy, rare piece of steak at a barbecue. I went through a phase where I ate Spam and eggs every day for breakfast (Thanks, Mom!), and another where my favorite lunch food was hot dogs fried in soy sauce, served over a bed of white rice.
Even though I've replaced the Spam with tempeh, the white rice with brown, the turkey with tofurkey, and the hot dogs with...well, I just don't eat hot dogs anymore, I guess...I still am reminded of my past indiscretions, mostly by family members who still can't believe I've chosen to break things off with meat and run off with vegetables. Oh well, time heals all wounds.
Do you have any shameful eating secrets? Care to share them? Be brave!
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Hahaha. it's okay. I'm vegetarian [well, pescetarian, whatever] now, and I love meat too!!
But I figure eating less meat would be better for my health/environment.
I think mine is that I refuse to leave my safe little haven of eating just chicken and beef. I've never tried any other meat outside of that (even with pork, I usually limit myself to bacon or cracklings). I also limit myself to just the meat and not the organs like kidneys, tripe, and stuff. I also hate fish. I just feel ashamed that I refuse to explore more because I'm so picky. I feel like I'm missing out on a lot (ex. dishes from my culture like sopa de mondongo). :(
i love food. i could never be a vegetarian. kudos to you!
It's all organic matter. Might as well make use of it.
I used to eat terrible food for me... mostly fries... alllll the time.... fries, in'n'out especially.... somehow after looking into health issues and such I realized I lost the interest though and food the nourishes my body, the environment, and is humane in its treatment of other sentient beings.
I've never undergone such a change in diet. It must have been difficult at first!
Ah, same with me! I went vegetarian for a good ten years, and then I had to switch back to meat because I was going off to college, and dorm food = no vegetarian foods outside of salads and the occasional pasta. That was hard. But I'm getting my own apartment next year, so I'll be able to switch back to healthy foods! :)
I love those juicy, succulent... oh so delicious barbequed chicken and lambs...mmm...I could gnaw every sinewy bits down to the bones. I'm brutal.
i don't have any food secrets, but i love ratatouille, and i love your picture!
@passionblame@xanga - same ! x.x
My friend and I like to buy the whole bbq chicken (each) and just eat it whole, without cutting o any utensils. Other times we would each buy a cake and try to finish it in one sitting.
As luck would have I don't have any shameful eating secrets. :3
it is hard for me to be a vegetarian, i love meat and custard tart
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I still eat pork, chicken and fish. Beef doesn't agree with my tummy. I wish I could cut pork out but it's oh so good!
I eat Oreo's by the sleeve. Also I have a bad habit of not being able to refuse eating contests.
And all-you-can-eat restaurants.
Nutella's not on this list yet? Shameful.
Nutella with pretzel sticks is mostly an excuse to eat Nutella on a spoon from the jar. When I run out of pretzel sticks, I drop the facade entirely.
I could be a vegetarian if I liked fish. I want to like fish, but I utterly despise the flavor of fish. Even supposed mild-flavored fish taste very fishy to me, and I hate it!
Myself, most of the meat I eat is poultry. I love that stuff!
I could never be a vegan. I can taste the fishiness in even the most mild fillet, and I can taste the soy flavor in soy, which made me used to not drink soymilk. The chocolate stuff is good in coffee, though! :D
My dirty food secrets involve making a peanut-butter and Nutella sandwich on cinnamon-raisin bread and stashing it in a paper bag with a water bottle filled with milk. I snuck into my room and ate it on my bed while reading a book.
Mmmmmmm.
Tempeh?? Do you mean tempe? I'm Indonesian, and I used to hate it when I was younger, but I've grown to like it.
The only shameful eating secret I have would be that if there's any chocolate at my house, it will all be gone in a day. I just love chocolate.
I used to be vegetarian for a couple of years, but with my whole family eating meat, I eventually started back into it. Also, I didn't eat chicken at all for one year a couple years ago because of something disgusting I saw (maggots crawling around on a piece of fried chicken...gross! i can still picture it and remember the sound i heard when they were squishing around.. bleh makes me cringe thinking about it right now).
Me, I'll eat the entire box of Girl Scout cookies in two days.
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