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[shinytoaster]

I don't understand the McDonalds adverts.

I mean, no, that's not strictly true. I get it fine. They're running scared. They hear the rumblings of discontent and read the obsessive rantings on childhood obesity, and they're smarting from pointless lawsuits and plagued by indie film-makers on a mission. I don't eat at McDonalds often, and so I'm not sure if Super-Size meals ever made it to Britain, I don't think they did but I could be wrong. Anyway, they want to nip it in the bud before we get all litigious on their asses, and try and sell us carrot sticks and little salads that are smothered in fat and calorie laden dressing apparently healthy. And they've even signed up Ashley Cole and some other England footballers to do a TV commercial. Which is really quite upsetting in and of itself.

The thing is, on the rare occasions when I go to Miccie D's (there's no sense in pretending I don't get cravings), I go because I want fries and a burger. I don't go because I have the munchies for carrots - which are lovely, but for which I don't feel the need to go out for. I have raw carrots in the fridge now. I like carrots. They're great for nibbling. I might even go eat one after I post this. Vegetables in general are cool. They're healthy and I'm a fan. But I don't want to get them from the Golden sodding Arches. Dude ... if I want a salad that bad, I'll stay home and make a fucking salad, you know?

I just don't see the point. Seriously, if you ever ate a McDonald's salad in anger then a) What were you on? and b) For Pete's sake, why? I really want to know.

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[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

You are? Gods, I'm so bad at spotting these things. I actually had a friend at secondary school who was a vegetarian and always was, and he just assumed I'd noticed and one day we were in, I think it was a Burger King, getting food before going to see the new Bond film - and he just ordered fries and I said something along the lines of;

"You're not getting a burger?"
"No, Alex. I'm a vegetarian."
"Oh. But I thought .. you always eat meat at school ..."
"No, I don't."
"Oh, fish then?"
"No. I've been a vegetarian since I was 10. When did you ever see me eating meat?"

And it dawned on me that I never actually had seen him eat meat. At school he'd always gone straight to the salad bar and piled his plate with vegetables, and in four years of knowing this guy and sitting with him and our friends at lunch, I had never. fucking. noticed.

Moral: I am a t00b.

[reservoir.livejournal.com]

XD XD XD

It's okay, I wouldn't expect you to know something like that, it's not the sort of thing Lowell would really mention, and except for a few brief references in my interests, I never really talk about it in my journal.

But yes, I've been a vegetarian my entire life, my parents raised me that way. I've never eaten meat, though I have sampled seafood, when I went to North Carolina with Lowell last summer.

And yes, you are a t00b, but we <3 you for it.

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

I know, I've not spent enough time in your company to know something like that, I feel it's just ... kinda ... oh. A mild surprise? Less mild than a mild surprise even. Like I said ... oh. Okay. Actually, I think it's like coming out, because everyone assumes everyone else is a meat-eater in the same way everyone assumes everyone is straight. So, hm. Yeah. Brighton has some great veggie restaurants if you need incentive to come visit Lowell ever.

[reservoir.livejournal.com]

Boy, I haven't assumed everyone is straight in a long, long time. Wonder why that is :D

And I need no other incentive than the two of you to come visit, though of course good veggie restaurants certainly sweeten the deal.