I read recently that there is a strata of vegans who are even more committed to it as a lifestyle than regular vegans. Some word was coined last year to describe them. I forget the word but it was included in the New York Times magazine's annual trends issue at the end of the year. A woman wrote in saying that's great and that's me. She said she won't even date a man who isn't a vegan, adding that she would rather stay home with her dogs. Maybe I am just unenlightened but my reaction was whew, I would rather she be at home with her dogs than on a date with me <g>. Not that I have anything against veganism but zealots of all types make me wary.


>Our vegan daughter eats some kind of bacon made from tofu or carrots or something that the granddaughter always calls "fakin' " <g>
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>There are times I am glad to have been raised a carnivorous Methodist <g>
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>>>>Mountain Dew was pretty much all I drank. It's more than the Dew, I've quit drinking caffeine.
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>>>What do you mean "quit"? You used to drink caffeine?
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>>>Next Tamar is going to tell us she's decided to lay off bacon for a while <g>
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>><g> Actually, when I was a kid, my mother used to serve us something from Hebrew National called "Beef Fry" (or "Frye"?) that was a sort of fake bacon. I loved it, but haven't had it in probably 30 years.
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