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Posted on August 9 at 7:12 p.m.
Hey I JUST found out I have a friend who works as a chef at Living Foods. They're supposed to be pretty good. If anybody wants to hit that up this weekend, call me at (504) 782-7935. I don't bite [beef. hah].
Posted on August 9 at 4:44 p.m.
Ok. Listen. I have a friend who is on the editorial staff. In conversation, I told him about my diet thing at a restaurant two months ago. The next day, I get a call from the editor-in-chief: "That sounds interesting. Must be hard to that in Baton Rouge. Why don't you write me 600 words about what it's been like?"
"It's actually been kinda funny. I can do that."
Two months later, here we all are. I was actually shocked that anyone would care enough to comment on this issue, much moreso to learn that I have inadvertently enraged some of you and I've had my integrity assailed as a "journalist." I just think there are too many really important things going on right this second to get so wound up about this.
Not only do I not want anyone to shower me with praise (whenyouseesparks was the only one to imply this), I was actually trying to be FUNNY at my own expense in the article (failed in this respect), not preachy, which is the primary problem with the entire health-diet movement. Nobody likes preachy, you should try a different angle. I wouldn't consider this a piece of real "journalism" any more than a first-person, highly subjective narrative about what it's like to go to Madame Tousseaud's Wax Museum. What research? It's about me and the goofy experiences I had.
This creates an uncomfortable situation for some of you in Baton Rouge because sometimes, people offer you "vegetarian" meals that include shrimp or crawfish and you. have. just. had. it. up. to. HERE with that. Ooh, that chaps you when people do that. Why not just politely decline and go find something you want to eat?
whenyouseesparks:
"Some of these comments may seen snarky or uppity to you, but vegetarians deal with these misconceptions every day of their life.
That sounds really hard. I'm sure you must lose a lot of sleep wrestling with the torment, the grizzled, barbed wire of that situation. Just deal with it. I realize its a miserable way to live, having misconceptions spread around about your group. Maybe some of you could start a circle somewhere every Friday where you talk about your frustrations and how people like me are the problem.
Please, just, stop getting so upset. I meant no offense to any of you. Please, can we bury this hatchet over some Veggie Omelets at Louie's?
Posted on August 9 at 1:04 p.m.
I probably wouldn't have been inspired to rant that if not for the jabs about my "integrity" as a journalist me being irresponsible. Irresponsible? Jeez. Get off it, go yell about how cattle ranchers are irresponsible if you want. How ridiculous.
Posted on August 9 at 12:53 p.m.
It's me. The author again.
You guys are all making good points. A disclaimer like mine doesn't give you license to trample all over a premise. But to my mind, the term "vegetarian" is broad enough to include lots of stripes of non-meat eaters, including Lacto vegetarians who do not eat meat or eggs but do consume dairy products, Lacto-ovo vegetarians who do not eat meat but do consume dairy products and eggs, Ovo vegetarians do not eat meat or dairy products but do eat eggs, and
Vegans who avoid eating any animal products, including eggs, milk, cheese, and sometimes honey. Which are you? If you're a vegan, do you eat honey? Who cares? It's your call.
The term is broad, different people may define it narrowly, but for instance, I don't think animal cruelty or having things die for your food necessarily has anything to do with the rationale for vegetarianism.
Once a term like vegetarian gets used by lots of different people to mean lots of different things, which began long before I was even born, you lose the right to define it narrowly and be correct. It's relative to whomever says it that time. To me it means something else (and mind you I never implied that I was a good vegetarian). Some of you guys remind me of Catholics who say things like, "If you believe in birth control, you're not a real Catholic." I think you're getting too hung up on semantics because you want to be exclusive about your lifestyle.
Be cool my babies. -conan o'brian
Posted on August 5 at 2:41 p.m.
Hey! I wrote this article.
Good point! Traditional vegetarians abstain from seafood, including crawfish, or any fish. Which is why I said,
"Traditional vegetarians abstain from seafood. But I live in southern Louisiana... "
in the third paragraph.
Sorry if any ambiguity causes you a problem when you order food. And good luck in your plight here in Baton Rouge!
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Posted on August 11 at 9:43 a.m.
Update kids!:
I haven't had any fish or seafood in almost 10 days. I think I'm morphing into the real deal here.
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