Tall Girl Ramblings

Feb 10th, 2008 I ate my last steak. It tried to kill me. Long story short is they kept trying to serve it to me bloody and I kept politely asking them to cook it longer. On the 4th time (yes 4th), I decided that I would either risk the countless bacterias I may consume by eating bloody meat or risk God knows what they do to my steak if I send it back a FIFTH time. I ate the bloody steak. I involuntarily (and violently) expelled the steak within an hour. That's right, I have never in fact had to poop and throw up at the same time before that day, Feb 10th, 2009. Not that I actually threw up - since everyone knows I don't actually throw up - but that was a close call my friends, a close call.

So throughout the rest of the week I had violent stomach episodes. One which was at Target. A VERY close call. Embarrassing. I was convinced I had ecoli by the time I got home from the restaurant. My Mom tried to assure me that ecoli takes some time to develop. I'm still unconvinced.

So, long story short - right? I stopped eating beef at that moment. My vegan/vegetarian friends at work started throwing sad animal videos at me. They sought opportunity to recruit, it worked. Shortly thereafter I stopped eating pig (they are after all smarter than dogs...) and shortly after THAT, I was shredding chicken and couldn't help put notice it's sternum. The identical body part that I have on my chest. At that point, chicken poultry was out of the question for me as well.

So, my basic dietery [meat] rules are this:

no hamburgers/steak/ground beef whatsoever (i have induldged in hotdogs about 3 times in the last 18 months. it's a weakness when prepared in mac and cheese, yum.)

avoid chicken/turkey but will eat it to be polite or if i'm having a protein craving

I will eat some fish sparingly. I get tired of the fish taste REAL quickly so I go in spurts of no fish either.

To be clear - although I feel bad for this, it's not what made me stop eating meat.





Not even this...although it is saddd.




It's this...


And a little bit of this...they are smarter than dogs!




So I don't like to label myself as "vegetarian" because I don't like to be scolded if I feel like having orange chicken one day. I would say on average I have a serving of poultry once a month or two. I will eat fish usually at least once a month to get my protein in.

Today I had a terrible episode where I mistakenly ate someone elses to-go chinese which was pork (aka PIGS THAT ARE SMARTER THAN DOGS) instead of my chicken. Needlesstosay, it has been over two years since my last pork digestion and.................it's not going well.