Well, THIS little article basically became the deciding factor for becoming a vegetarian again.

I had been a vegetarian for a couple of years before finding out I was pregnant. During my pregnancy, I suddenly lost the taste for tofu, and decided to add meat back into my diet in order to get protein. I ate mostly chicken with the occasional beef dish.

Now that I’m two months postpartum, I’ve been slowly weaning myself off meat. I never really gave it up because I thought it was a cruel practice (though it does break my heart to think about it); I simply hated the way certain cooked meats smelled and tasted. I detested cooking chicken because it yelled to me, “COOKED FLESH!” Ew. As I was explaining to a friend, the reason why I find those fake chicken patties so tasty is because they’re like the farthest thing from “chicken.” Seriously. The fake chicken patties recreate the same patties made of supposed real chicken, which tastes and feels nothing like, say, a grilled chicken breast. They taste like something almost totally manufactured (which I guess they are), so for someone to come along and recreate the same “fake” thing in a truly meatless endeavor, well, I’m more than satisfied.

Filed by Maria in food