Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

I'm not in the first category, I do eat meat, and I love it. I'm eating less, and more vegetables, mostly for healthy diet reasons. I think lots of vegetables are good for health with or without meat. I often think of something good to cook and eat for a meal, and it turns out to be vegetarian. I can't do vegan, though. I need the dairy - you're going to live your life without cheese? And eggs are pretty basic good, cheap food with many uses. The best diet decision I've made is after I got type 2 diabetes I cut out all the refined sugar I could out of my diet, and that has had a very good effect on my health.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I have a couple vegans in the family so I have tasted the fake meat products at Thanksgiving. I can't say they tasted like rubber, but I can't say they tasted like meat, either. I have had vegetarian meals that were tasty and satisfying but I like meat and have no plans to give it up.

As I have aged, I can't eat as much volume as I used to. A normal restaurant meal gets split in half and I have a lunch from it too. We had a party at a steak house recently and had a really nice piece of meat but I got 3 meals out of it. And I was really stuffed after the party and suffered from overeating the next day. (The steak was totally worth it). My second wife is asian so we have a lot of vegetables and little meat but the meat is there and satisfies me. More fish, too. I have been pushing on the top of my winter weight range this year and didn't make it down to my normal summer weight last year. And she eats twice what I do.

I suspect I am cursed with an efficient metabolism. Everything I eat (or even think of eating) is stored. We had a guy in my office when I was working who, when we went to a meeting at another city, would order two meals at every restaurant we ate at, even when I was hard pressed to get through half a meal. He was probably pushing 120 lb. I have so far keep my weight below twice that (but I'm getting closer all the time).

bedouin Loc: Big Bend area, Texas

Vegans are free to put whatever they wish in their mouth. But as a group I do not like them. I have only met one in my life who would sit through a meal without giving me a lecture. God spare me from the tyranny of the morally upright!

02Nomad Loc: Catonsville, MD

Somewhat off topic and I'm not sure where I heard it, but.....

You know that feeling that you get when you see and smell a steak on the grill? I wonder if vegans feel the same way when they mow the lawn?!?!?!

Dannj

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SonyBug

Is there a brand name on that "ground round"? My wife is allergic to beef and other red meats. I'd love to have an alternative to chicken and fish.

chikid68 Loc: Tennesse USA

My question is not just why a vegetarian wants to eat a meat taste but also how would they know what the taste of something they don't eat is 😂.

camerabuff58 Loc: Ontario, Canada,

Vegetarian chicken flavored ham.. that's a good one.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Very few people are vegetarians their whole life. Many have had meat and liked it before they became vegetarian for ethical or health reasons.

Ray and JoJo Loc: Florida--Tenneessee

Good test, offer a lion a bowl of each and see.

Stash Loc: South Central Massachusetts

No thanks. I'll stick to the real thing.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Maybe, for recovering vegetarians, someone could offer tofu flavored beef?

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

All this talk about vegetarians makes me want bacon for breakfast.

Dannj

...or for lunch, dinner, mid-night snack, watching tv, reading a book.......