When I say I’m vegetarian

Ages ago while working at a bistro when I was youngish, I made myself a sandwich. It was heaping with things like roasted red peppers, red onion, cucumber, spinach, kale, arugula, a fat puck of fresh mozzarella (my guilty pleasure), a thicccc chickpea and basil pesto in olive oil, and I don't remember what else on fluffy focaccia. The damn thing was as tall as it was wide.

A coworker saw me making it and then when I took a bite he's like "Man, if someone put that sandwich in front of me, I'd be mad. It don't even got no meat on it." I did tell him at the time, "That's the point." but he didn't get it. He just kept saying he would be mad, it was insulting to him, and other ways of saying it. A five hundred calorie sandwich with more colors and fiber than he'd probably ever seen in one place in his life.

The reason Earth will be incompatible with multicellular life in two hundred years is because idiots think food is the body parts of animals and everything else is just a garnish if it must be included at all. Maybe I feel a little bad for him now, because it seems like a tragic loss for his diet to have only consisted of ... beige.

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