Posted on 03/05/2022 10:38:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
From plant-eating bodybuilders to role models like Lewis Hamilton, so-called ‘hegans’ are turning gender stereotypes on their head
It was a Sunday afternoon in the late 1980s and the house was filled with the fatty scent of roast lamb. I absentmindedly enquired about the origins of lunch and my brother pointed at the mewing sheep in the field adjacent to our house. I was a five-year-old boy, and I decided on the spot to become the first vegetarian in my family.
My parents, while broadly supportive, were understandably bemused – and concerned. It was a less enlightened time, and my lack of dietary protein was a constant worry. They assuaged this by occasionally feeding me Chicken McNuggets under the not entirely misplaced logic that they weren’t really meat. After I’d cottoned on, I would sheepishly order a cheeseburger “without the burger” whenever we went to McDonald’s.
I became accustomed to teasing and shaming – from digs at the apparently tasteless gruel I was consuming to the ubiquitous use of “gay” as an insult, mostly from guys who seemed offended by my decision to not eat dead things. I didn’t know anyone else – male or female – who was veggie. I hated ordering food when out with groups of lads because I knew there would be titters and comments about my masculinity. From the years I was at school right into my 2os, rarely a day passed without some sort of jibe about my diet. As a result, for many years I hid the real reason – claiming it was simply “habit” rather than sensitivity to animal welfare.
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We’ve never found a cake painting of a salad.
The Guardian?!
LOL! Nuff said.
Meanwhile, what’s on the menu in Parliament’s members dining room: meat.
https://www.parliament.uk/visiting/venue-hire/commons/planning/menus/#menus
They have a wine list, too.
Have ever eaten English beef? They feed their cattle fish meal. Worst beef on the planet.
Why the liberal media is still around is a mystery to me.
How much BS can a population consume?
Is that what it is? I have wondered why wimpy bergers taste weird for decades.
Although maybe they moved to fish from sheep because of the scrapie-mad cow?
Real men do whatever it pleases them to do. The measure of their manhood is in why it pleases them to do so.
Yeah, I’ve heard of these years ago. Remember this old popular song from around 1975?
Junk Food Junkie
Song by Larry Groce
You know I love that organic cooking
I always ask for more
And they call me Mr. Natural
On down to the health food store
I only eat good sea salt
White sugar don’t touch my lips
And my friends is always
Begging me to take them
On macrobiotic trips
Yes, they are
Oh, but at night I stake out my strongbox
That I keep under lock and key
And I take it off to my closet
Where nobody else can see
I open that door so slowly
Take a peek up north and south
Then I pull out a Hostess Twinkie
And I pop it in my mouth.
****
Oh, but folks lately I have been spotted
With a Big Mac on my breath
Stumbling into a Colonel Sanders
With a face as white as death
I’m afraid someday they’ll find me
Just stretched out on my bed
With a handful of Pringles Potato Chips
And a Ding Dong by my head
In the daytime I’m Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I’m a junk food junkie
Good lord have pity on me
I nearly gagged first time I tried a steak in England. I was told at the time fish meal is a big part of feed for all their livestock.
You should try beef that has been grazing on a pasture with wild onions!
We learned when young to take a bite of raw onion then you can’t taste the onion in the meat. Same for milk from such a cow.
And they pick an effeminate man for the article…
“Real men”
LOL! When I was a kid, our milk cow ate a bunch of onion greens. Milk wasn’t fit to drink for a week. My dad was so pissed, cause little sister and I had pulled the onions and sacked them along the fence line exactly as he instructed. He was so disappointed he couldn’t beat me for that.
File under: Overexplaining.
Vegans die of B12 deficiency
Are man buns required?
Do vegans have trouble healing from broken bones or does the vet put them to sleep or send them to the slaughter house ?
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