But wasn't Hitler a veggie? and other things not to say to a vegetarian

Independent | Friday October 01 2010 | Lisa Jewell

[Kozak]

He was also the original Smoking Nazi....

[RexBeach]

Mussolini was a veggie as well, I believe.

[wastedyears]

LOL Now I have a great to make people extremely angry.

[FlingWingFlyer]

“You are what you eat.”

[gundog]

Anytime someone looks at the heads on my walls and says “I’m a vegetarian....” I say “So were they.”

[swarthyguy]

Actually, so was Lenin.

When the Kaiser put him in a sealed carriage and the train wound through Germany and then eventually Russia, Lenin insisted that the car be non smoking.

And Churchill would be left smoking his stogie outside on the pavement today.

[wastedyears]

Man didn’t kill animals and eat them for thousands of years only to end up eating a few leafs.

There’s a reason we’re at the top of the food chain on Earth.

[taxcontrol]

When a veggie introduces themselves as such, I take on a very concerned look and tell them in hushed tones, “You know that they have a cure for that now?”

[xp38]

If you read the article the whole thing is a rebuttal of the things people say to veggies. It is written by one of them.

[swarthyguy]

I would change this line, since it has been proven to drive the vegan fanatic nutty.

>>If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?

If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make meat taste so good.

[MEGoody]

“You know that they have a cure for that now?”

LOL!

[rfreedom4u]

What do you call a vegetarian with diarrhea?

A salad shooter!

[pennyfarmer]

I will give them a few jabs and then try to accommodate them.

In culinary school we had a vegetarian taking the class, she could cut chicken and cook very well. Her only handicap was she would not taste any food she cooked that contained meat.

[wordsofearnest]

Salad: What food eats

[Vaquero]

(Mussolini)—Became a vegetarian in 1925 after an ulcer attack. Ate pasta (with butter sauce) and fruit (mainly grapes and oranges). Did occasionally eat chicken or rabbit. Liked others to recognize his “frugality” and frequently had a glass of milk placed on his desk. Returned to meat diet in 1943 on the advice of a doctor (sent to Mussolini by Hitler).

[John S Mosby]

All that health consciousness, and Lenin died of neurosyphilis. This was uncovered in the papers of Pavlov (a favorite of Lenin's, a protected scientist famous for the Pavlov dog response which Lenin wanted implemented in human populations). Pavlov was on a team which examined Lenin's brain and confirmed this. There is a last photo of Lenin that is quite shocking.. it is black and white but he is almost all darkened in his skin— another verification of end stage neurosyphilis. Lenin did smoke later on, like a fiend.

[Bean Counter]

Do you know what you are?
You are what you is
You is what you am
(A cow don’t make ham . . . )
You ain’t what you’re not
So see what you got
You are what you is
An’ that’s all it ‘tis

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[magslinger]

LOL! I will be using that.

[katana]

My wife was one when I met her. Between IT jobs during a bad patch of the 80's in Dallas she was working as a waitress at Chi Chi's and a customer thought her (beef) Chimichanga had a questionable taste. So she asked my wife to try it and was told "sorry, I'm a vegetarian".

The lady got this shocked look on her face and in a very syrupy Texas drawl said "Why ... your lucky to be alive!". My wife got cured of her "condition" soon after (I do a really bada** barbecue) and we still laugh about that lady in Texas.

Traditionally vegetarian cultures and religious groups such as Hindus and Buddhists know what to eat to supplement their lack of meat consumption. They turn out undersized by our standards but not entirely unhealthy. But western vegetarians? They look like they've got AIDs and are generally prickly, mean spirited, shi*heels who cannot stand seeing anyone else enjoy themselves.