: This reminds me: There's an entire state filled with ignorant red meat addicts that think "vegetarian" means you don't eat pork and cattle. I'm talking about Iowa. I can't tell you how many times I've ordered an alleged "vegetarian" dinner that ended up having chicken - and yes, sometimes even pork - mixed in with it somewhere. Try to send it back : and they look at you like you're crazy. : An old girlfriend of mine had to cook for her ailing Iowan grandmother for a week. One night she served her some white rice with her meal. The grandmother roared with hysterical laughter because the rice didn't have any meat in it, not knowing that that was how almost everyone else in the world served rice. To my girlfriend's embarassment, that story was passed around her family for weeks afterwards as one of the strangest and funniest things anyone in her family had ever done. I'm telling you these, people have serious problems.
I once dated a woman whose ex-husband only ate white rice and meat. The guy made Rush Limbaugh look like the poster boy for good health.
Iowa sounds awful, but c'mon, Texas has got to be worse. It's like that episode from "King of the Hill," where Hank is told that he has to eat less meat and more vegetables, so when he's on life at the buffet getting his sausage and bacon and chops, and his wife reminds him what the doctor said, Hank says okay, he'll have a damn vegetable, so he turns to the server says, "And give me a side of that there macaroni and cheese."
By the way, DDN, have you noticed how meat lovers tend to SHOUT PROFANE MESSAGES at people? Must be all that fat in the pipes, cutting off oxygen to their brains. My advice is, ignore them.
: I once got arrested for smuggling books into Iowa, but they had to let me go................They couldn't PROVE they were books. ba da bing
