I’m a bi-vegetarian

My mother is so cute sometimes. She’s terribly excited that I’m seeing Sam again, but she’s trying very hard to stay calm, cool and collected. Sam works oddball hours so wasn’t able to come up to Superior for Thanksgiving, but people know I’m seeing him again so they asked about him.

Sam has a daughter who has visited my family a few times, when Sam and I dated before.  She’s a vegetarian, like her mother, and since nobody in my family would even consider a meal without meat, we had to scramble a bit to get Meaghan a tofu burger or something each time she came to visit.

So.  Mom is terribly excited that there is a child in my life again.  This child is a vegetarian.  I note that this child’s father is not.  He likes meat, of all kinds.

So we go out for pizza one night during Thanksgiving week, and since I don’t really like meat on my pizza, I ordered a vegetarian pizza.  This after a week of eating Turkey, venison, and talking a LOT about how i’m going to get half of my deer processed into sausage this year.  But still - my mom, trying to sound calm, says

“So how do you get protein?”

me: what?

mom: Now that you are a vegetarian, how do you make sure you get protein in your diet?

me: I’m not a vegetarian.

It’s pretty clear my mother thought - Meaghan’s a vegetarian, Sam must be a vegetarian, so now since Marie ordered a vegetarian pizza, Marie must be a vegetarian.

me: Actually, I’m a bi-vegetarian.  I find I like to eat vegetables, and I notice that I like all of the same movies as vegetarians, so I must have vegetarian tendencies.  But I still go back to meat every once in a while …  I go both ways.

Posted by Marie on December 4th, 2007 under Uncategorized

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