Several months ago a guy wrote into Men's Health asking about vegetarian diets. He pointed out that it is possible to eat a perfectly healthy diet without eating meat so long as you get the property variety. He postulated that converse, you can eat a healthy diet eating only meat so long as you eat the proper variety, and then asked if this was true. Alas, he was told that this is not the case. The dude gets an "A" for effort, though!

He gets an A for making me giggle.

Oops, sorry about the multiple trackback pings. I'll have the gnomes that run the computers flogged.

Other fun quotes:
"If I want to eat what a rabbit eats, I'll eat a rabbit"
and
"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."

Humans didn't spend millions of year through evolution, working their way to the top of the food chain, only to go back down.

I once tried something along the lines of, "Where I come from, we have a word for vegetarians: FOOD."

Matt's line is much, much better.

<bows down>

Brilliant.

Ironically, I was at the University of Maryland today with a coworker for a recruitment event and saw a table outside the Student Union with a sign that said "Meat Out!" At the table they were serving veggie meat-like substances.

My friend and I chuckled, but then during the course of our conversation I mentioned that, I agree that we should respect animals, but, what can I say, they are just so darned tasty! I respect them, but I just have to eat them!

Sorry Mr. MooCow, but you're lunch.

David

David: Ever see the movie PCU? Your story reminds me of the "meat tosser" scene in that movie. Damn, that was a funny scene!

Years ago, I bought a button from Nancy Lebovitz (http://www.nancybuttons.com) with that saying. It was a present for my then-boss, who was definitely a carnivore. He later gave it to my daughter, who has what I presume is the normal teenager's aversion to vegetables.

I also had her make a custom button once, that said, "If you can't get your work done in a 24-hour day, work nights." One of these days, I'll get one made with the other saying I picked up in my Navy days: "If the minimum weren't good enough, it wouldn't be the minimum."