Vegetarian Has A Moment Of Bliss After Trying Meat For The First Time In 22 Years

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Stephanie Potakis, the casting director of The Onion, broke her 22 years of being a vegetarian by eating a succulent variety of meats on camera. While eating a chicken thigh, bone marrow, and finally ribeye steak, Potakis hilariously illustrates just how incredible (and possibly orgasmic) the experience was for her.

Long Story

Whether you are a vegetarian or just know someone who is, there's often a lot of confusion around the dietary category. Many people who consider themselves "vegetarians" or even "vegans," in fact are not. For instance someone might call oneself a "vegetarian" but eats fish, placing them in the actual category of "pescatarian." It's a whole thing.

That being said, when one does fall under the category of "vegetarian," often meat eaters will try and lure the individual to indulge in all of the carnal goodness meat has to offer. If they do take the bait, most converts will start small, introducing occasional servings of lean meats into their diet. Stephanie Potakis is not one of those people.

Potakis, the casting director of the not-so-underground-but-still-underground website The Onion, went 22 years without eating meat and then returned to the mainstream diet with a bang. Filming the whole experience, Potakis ordered some of the juiciest, richest and most desirable meats on the planet and ate portions of all of them in one sitting.

Potakis started with a chicken thigh (you know, kids stuff), then she moved onto bone marrow (definitely not kids stuff), and finally finished it off by diving into a piece of good ol' red meat.

When Potakis starts off the segment with the "crispy chicken thigh" her commentary is relatively tame commenting on how "juicy" the meat is and clearly enjoying every bite (as evidenced by her facial expressions). When the bone marrow comes out, however, is when we really get to meet The Onion casting director in full. After her first taste of the marrow, Stephanie lifts up the bone to her mouth and begins sucking down the marrow asking, "is this, like, a new shooter?" (It should be noted there was also serious licking involved).

Finally the steak comes out, and if you thought Potakis was unhinged before, you're about to watch a woman reach a new plane of existence. As she eats the ribeye she contemplates whether or not to cut the pieces of meat so as to appear more ladylike, comments on how the meat tastes like what she always thought grilled meat would taste like, and then she suggests that steak become a new flavour of gum.

She's not wrong.

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If someone can go over two decades without doing something, and then all of a sudden over-indulge in that exact thing, all in one sitting, what does that say about the human psyche (and physiology, for that matter)?

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According to the Worldwatch Institute, 51% or more of global greenhouse-gas emissions are caused by animal agriculture.