Wednesday, July 25, 2007

I'm a geographical vegetarian, meaning I don't eat meat in India (with the exception of a few select restaurants). For some reason this is horrifying to a lot of people. They don't understand and usually loudly exclaim something along the lines of 'You don't eat meat?! How do you live?' No offense but please let me break it down for you.

You see, many of you who read this go to the grocery store to get your meat. You push a cart to the frozen food section and pick up your packaged boneless chicken or grade A beef. When I go to buy meat, however, I see this:



Haha...now you all will probably have nightmares. But I thought I'd try to save myself from any more lectures about how unhealthy it is to eliminate meat from my diet. Clearly I'm choosing the lesser of two evils here. This blog is actually way overdue because I'll soon be pushing my own cart to the frozen food section! Boneless frozen chicken. Mesquite lime marinades. Propane grills. Yum...

Six more days left in India. Two more in my city. We're super busy and I'll do my best to post some more lovely pictures in the near future.

8 comments:

E-Rob said...

HAHA! I love that picture. It is way worse than the Thanksgiving turkey head we experienced when y'all first got to Shimla.

the occasional cig... said...

Oddly enough, that looks eerily similar to a couple of my old boyfriends...in my dreams anyway ;)


Seriously, can't wait to have you home. Seriously.

Sam

bronda said...

Kind of looks like it is smiling!!?
:-)

Anonymous said...

He is smiling at you. :>)

Anonymous said...

That could almost make me a vegetarian state side. ick! It will be good when you come home all though I'm not sure that image will ever be far behind.

Shannon's Bushtales said...

Uh- pretty sure the cows in the states look similiar to this before they become hamburger. I truly wish they played what actually happened to chik-n nuggets/big macs before they are served at McDonalds stores outside every restaurant. Animals DO atually have heads and brains and the works, and it is fairly horrific to watch said animals have their heads ripped/seared off. You should see/read fast food nation. A bit moving. Mini rant by your veggo friend has now ended. Lookin forward to seeing you.,

S

julie said...

dang you, shannon, just when i'm getting excited to eat meat again you ruin it with your gross stories of meat butchering horrors. hey, random i know, but i'm in africa right now.

Anonymous said...

Julie, Our meat department is far more clean and Our process most likely for humane. Just think of a nice juicy steak hot off the grill