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From: rosiedee

2009-02-23 10:08 am (UTC)

Delicious salty crispy bacon is what lead my astray from vegetarianism.



THAT IS A VERY COMMON SITUATION.



Actually, I didn't slide into full-on vegetarianism until later that year, and even then, it was something of a process.



I very recently got some lab results, and the lab tech said to me, "I can't exactly give you medical advice, but um... You might want to think about the things you are not eating, and whether or not you ought to start eating them again." So... Maybe I'm gonna have to start in on chicken. But oh, ugh.

From: bih_friend

2009-02-23 09:51 am (UTC)

Boy, you are making me hungry. I never met a meat I didn't like. Now, I am trying to solve the mystery of how 200 g of fillet yesterday made me gain 1000 g on the scale this morning.



Life is not always fair.



On my gravestone, they will write "he liked to eat meat."

From: rosiedee

2009-02-23 10:10 am (UTC)

How very German of you! (Both the meat-eating and the metric system.)

From: codetoad

2009-02-23 09:51 am (UTC)

Awesome! Thank you for doing this :)



Sincerely,

your fans on the internet

From: rosiedee

2009-02-23 10:04 am (UTC)

It was actually your comment that put me over the edge! And so: I am glad you liked it.

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From: talcotts

2009-02-23 11:56 am (UTC)

Hooray for the Bacon Story!

I have to say, I totally get the bacon avoidance now.



Now you don't have to worry about telling people the story, you can just print this out and hand it to them.





From: optic

2009-02-23 06:31 pm (UTC)

a small calling card with this printed on it might be appropriate.

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From: rosiedee

2009-02-23 07:20 pm (UTC)

Yeah, me neither. Though I was more or less fine with bacon before this whole experience, and even fondly recall once splitting four pounds of bacon with my father in one glorious breakfast. And now that I am a vegetarian, my cholesterol levels suffer so much less!

From: captainseby

2009-02-23 12:13 pm (UTC)

I'm really glad you elaborated on this, your prior references to the incident left me feeling like the one person who is not in on an in joke ahahah



That is an AWESOME job :O



Me, I don't like meat morally, and after I have traveled the world and checked lots and lots of culinary experiments off of my life to-do list, I WILL go vegetarian, but until then I will go on trying to eat every type of animal imaginable. Just to say I have, y'know? No one will ever be able to say I am a vegetarian because I haven't had the right meat.

From: rosiedee

2009-02-23 07:08 pm (UTC)

About three years ago, I was at a conference that held a lobster dinner one night. The dinner had already been paid for, I wasn't really a fan of the vegetarian option (eggplant parmigiana), and we were in Lobster Country, so I probably wasn't going to have a better chance to try a really good lobster, even though it's not something I ever really wanted to eat anyway. But you know, lobster! What if I was missing out?



The guy next to me taught me how to crack the thing open, which was one of the more barbaric eating experiences I've ever had. And it turns out: I don't much like lobster. Had two bites, actually, which made me feel terrible about wasting a whole lobster. (Also, they smell like the sea, and the sea smells kind of awful!)

From: asphalteden

2009-02-23 01:59 pm (UTC)

Excellent.



But couldn't they stick the meat inside the traps and let it rot there? That way you wouldn't have to handle it! Or would something come along and eat it before the bears did?

From: rosiedee

2009-02-23 07:10 pm (UTC)

We didn't want the poor bears to cook in the metal traps while we took our sweet time driving around each day on our daily trap-checking rounds, so the traps were set up in nice, shady, cool groves. Turns out a few days in the sun really speeds up the whole rancidification process.



And anyway, it turns out that bears smell a whole lot worse than rancid bacon when they get scared.

From: joshpm

2009-02-23 03:44 pm (UTC)

Hahaaa that makes perfect sense. Like how I can't drink whiskey anymore after... uh, yeah.



I've been trying to eat less meat, but I eat pretty poorly at school, so it's difficult. But overall I think Americans need to reevaluate our cultural diet and eat more balanced!

From: daleof

2009-02-23 04:14 pm (UTC)

Pssst. Same thing with me and cointreau.

From: jope

2009-02-23 05:04 pm (UTC)

I will never harass you about food again. (sigh)

From: rosiedee

2009-02-23 07:15 pm (UTC)

A good thing, because people get touchy about food harassment like little else.

From: tomtomtomtomtom

2009-02-23 07:32 pm (UTC)

I let out a sweet yelp when I saw THE BACON STORY in glorious meat-steaming caps.

From: rosiedee

2009-02-23 08:01 pm (UTC)

Heh! I am here to make people happy.

From: in_alaska

2009-02-23 09:18 pm (UTC)

Oh wow. So you really puked right there in front of the boss with the hat? Rhubarb does approximately the same to me.

Also: I love the bear with radio collar picture!

From: rosiedee

2009-02-23 10:32 pm (UTC)

I actually threw up in front of my boss, at least one biologist, and a couple of other interns. All of whom thought it was knee-slappingly funny.



I have had a lot of humiliating experiences, now that I think about it.



(I was concerned about my inability to draw bears, and then the bear with the radio collar just kind of showed up out of nowhere, and I loved it too!)

From: safari_avenger

2009-02-23 09:42 pm (UTC)

haha Bacon! I had a really similar summer job when I was 17, minus the rancid bacon. (Actually, it was my job to get up at six o'clock every morning in my rubber boots and make sure that the electric bear fence was still working. We did not want to talk to those bears. But I met a lot of dead lemmings.)

From: rosiedee

2009-02-23 10:34 pm (UTC)

Whaaaaat! Where on earth did you have an electric bear fence?!



Actually, someone was just telling me about how they're getting a portable electric bear fence to do some field work in Alaska, but that just seems insane, because I wouldn't think you could carry batteries strong enough to charge a fence that a grizzly might even notice on its way through to your tent.

From: boilingbabies

2009-02-24 12:48 am (UTC)

That is so unfortunately. I have recently rediscovered a love for bacon. But I can only have it certain ways--namely, with the fat pulled off and nearly burnt.

From: rosiedee

2009-02-24 02:29 am (UTC)

Oh man, when I still ate bacon, I had a very strong preference for the fattiest pieces of bacon, cooked only just enough to still be all jiggly.



GOD I DON'T KNOW WHY I STOPPED EATING BACON THAT'S TOTALLY DISGUSTING.

From: singleentendre

2009-02-24 02:56 am (UTC)

This could never happen to me, for I am the guy who tours the slaughterhouse and says, "Wow, that's so gross I almost can't finish this sausage sandwich (that for some reason I'm eating while taking the tour)."

From: rosiedee

2009-02-24 03:28 am (UTC)

I actually have a pretty high tolerance for things other people find disgusting, but man, your sense of smell is a hard one to reroute once your brain decides it's going to a certain memory center.



I know someone who can only eat chicken other people have cooked for her, because she can't get over how disgusting raw chicken is. (Which, let's face it: yeah, kind of!)