Happy Sunday!
Today's post is about to get real. Really.
Several of you have asked why I don't eat food off of the bone, and this should help clear that up a little bit. I also prefer to not talk about a cow while I am eating a burger, or a chicken while I'm enjoying nuggets. Now you know.
Every once in a while though, I am caught thinking about becoming a vegetarian. I have seven reasons that won't be happening too, but for another time. This time lets learn what sways me toward the vegetable lifestyle.
Seven Ways I Am Compelled To Be Vegetarian:
The Sound Of Knife On Bone - I had to take 6 weeks of basic culinary classes before they let me take pastry classes in school. We cooked real food daily. Had lamb chops at 10am once! But we had to prepare those lamb chops. Scrape the tissue and sinews off the bone to create that perfect presentation. Nails on a chalkboard has NOTHING on this sound. Curls my hair, boils my blood and tests my gag reflex all at once.
People That Eat Guts, Innards, And Other Nasty Bits - I am not here to judge. I believe everyone should be able to eat whatever they please. However, the mere fact that people eat these things grosses me out. Just think about your tongue and what it has been through...wanna eat it?
Chicken Wings and Fried Chicken(bone-in) - People LOVE fried chicken and chicken wings, i love the flavor and the idea but not the consumption. I like to think humans are beyond gnawing on bones to procure our food. It also makes me kinda sick to gnaw on a chicken’s wing bones. Its hard to know what you eat and where it is safe to bite. Biting into the bone or the cartilige areas too hard makes my hairs stand on end and I don’t know how to avoid that.. These are some of the reasons I can’t handle boned food.
Hot Dogs aka “weiners” - Meat Filler. Two words that can send me running. Anyone with an imagination and/or the Internet can figure out what composes this and why it is not appealing. This is why I go all-beef all the time.
The Mere Idea That People Eat Bone Marrow - Osso bucco. Not only are you scraping bone to get to this, you are scraping out the centers of bones. Never tried it, never will. Thinking about it makes me tense up...why am i not a vegetarian, again?
The Thought Of Animals Being Raised And Killed To Eat - Inhumane conditions and practices just for food? Don’t vegetarians live fully nutritional lives without meat?
Being Able To Look At Certain Raw Meats And Identify “parts” - The logical side of my brain looks at a chicken breast on the bone and pictures its orientation on a chicken’s body. How does it fit? How did they get it off of the rest of the chicken? Ew, why am I thinking about this? Culinary school made this a little worse too.
Do any of you have some of these issues? Or am I just really weird? Wait, don't answer that last question.
***Spoiler alert, tomorrow is Music Monday and the triumphant return of Hercules!***
***Spoiler alert, tomorrow is Music Monday and the triumphant return of Hercules!***
Oh my gosh. Disgusting. Thanks for sharing. We're trying to move towards more vegetarian around here. We'll never be vegetarians (I am fairly certain), however, I hope that we'll be more aware of what we're eating and grateful for where it came from - and also we're trying to eat as much grass-fed, pasture (and wild) raised meat/fish as possible. And this is seriously the most disgusting list of reasons why (most of which I had never even considered).
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