I agree. There is some seriously delicious vegetarian foods. Heck grilled roasted veggies are delicious. Indian food, mediterranean foods like falafal, hummus, baba ghanoush. Why pretend you are eating a hot dog? Just toss some olive oil and herbs on some veggies, grill em, have a nice starch based dish, make a spicy dip, enjoy, and leave me alone with my turkey.
Most of these I'll give you (although I have yet to try falafal and Indian food. I also love mediterranean and baba ghanoush. But hummus. Ick! It always tastes like dirty feet. Yet, everytime it's served somewhere in hopes that this time it will taste different. My husband says it tastes like what he would imagine science fiction space food to be like.