My whole family once went through this prolonged vegetarian phase. It started when my sister moved to San Fransisco and subsequently became vegetarian and then vegan. She brought home the trend, raving about the John Robbins The Food Revolution and spewing horrible details about how steak is born. Within weeks, she had my whole family on the vegetarian kick... some lasted longer than others. My mom held out at least 7 years for a BLT (I knew she would cave) and my sister kept it up until her pregnancy, when she asked me to buy her a filet mignon wrapped in bacon. Thus ended the vegetarian reign.
Mom, the Tofurkey
Thanksgiving year was so gross
Vomit in my mouth
UPDATE: Reader Submission
Since Thanksgiving isn't over yet and we're all already 2 pants sizes larger, I thought I would go ahead and post these Thanksgiving lifekus sent in by Maureen:Thanksgiving dinner
I ate way too much this year
About to explode
I should know better
Why am I still looking at
the dessert table?
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It occurred to me that every holiday brings an influx of text messages to my phone. This Thanksgiving I received nearly 30 individual texts from friends and family simply stating "Happy Thanksgiving!!" For me to text all my friends would take forever, via multiple texts (since I can't just send one text to unlimited people at once). Am I missing something here? Do my friends gawk at my lack of response or equal lack of loving initiative? Are you seriously that excited to text bomb everyone you know with the cliche?
It reminded me that once I even received a text from a girl friend saying "Happy Daylights Saving" - wtf dude, where are you? Naturally, she's one of the happiest people I know, but still, that's just dodo.
So in response, I've generated a Haiku of my own; my first:
30 texts, really?
Think green and save battery
My network is clogged
That was hilarious, but unfortunately made me feel worthless since apparently I belong on the short bus with the kids who received 0 Thanksgiving texts. [weeps alone in corner]
It's okay, I only got one Thanksgiving text, from someone who I used to share Thanksgiving with so I felt it was appropriate. I used to get the mass texts - which I never responded to and didn't feel about because I figured they were being send to about 20 other people anyway...
Nice lifeku BTW - I laughed out loud it's so true.
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