At Stuart's urging

Which response do you mean, Rahsaan?

(fwiw, I'm pretty much a lifer- haven't eaten meat since I was a small kid)

Stuart, my Mom was like that - didn't eat meat from about 6 years old or so. OTOH, she would cook meat for my Dad and us kids, and even worked in a butcher department of a grocery for several years. I will sometimes eat a meatless meal, but only because I want a change of pace. I am a confirmed omnivore, and can get downright joyous over a particularly well-prepared piece of meat, especially if it is the tenderloin of a yearling deer that I brought to bag.

My only real problem with vegans and run-of-the-mill vegetarians is if they start to interfere with my own freedom to eat meat or not, as I see fit.

And FWIW, I have tried to like tofu, but without much success, especially if it is made to look like meat of some sort! Tofurkey is indeed an abomination!

Yes, I have. it's OK, but never thrilled me, especially at the not-inconsiderable price. Millennium, same thing- very good, not superb, but expensive.

Ditto. I had my first and last seaweed dish at Millenium. It reminded of those straw bricks these used to use. Green's is OK, although not the cheapest place around. The upside is the take-out and then sitting down somewhere with a bay view.

Yep, can't get much better at vegetarian than an eggplant parm. at a good Italian restaurant--or mine!

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! But that involves CHEESE. Milk comes from animals. Can't have that if you're a vegan.

Do vegans allow their infants to suckle?

-Paul W.

My cat will be delighted to provide you with all the extruded cylinders you could ever want.

Yep, can't get much better at vegetarian than an eggplant parm. at a good Italian restaurant--or mine!

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! But that involves CHEESE. Milk comes from animals. Can't have that if you're a vegan.

Do vegans allow their infants to suckle?

-Paul W.

Yes, they do, but only from other vegans whose breasts ooze tofu whey.