Showing posts with label savory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label savory. Show all posts

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Pork and Lamb!


















I have decided to address these two TGDE in tandem for a couple reasons:
  1. They are arguably the only TGDE yet discovered that can be traced to an emotional level, rather than one of the more specific (and arcane) justifications that have been discussed in previous posts.
  2. They hold very special places in both my heart, and my personal diet.
In regards to the first point: Georgia has nothing in particular against the taste, texture, smell or consistency of either of these foods. While lamb would likely not be her favorite flavor she would probably still eat it, and she has conceded before that her memory of bacon is that it's delicious (a very accurate memory.) Her problem arises from liking the animals (in their corporeal state) too much, and disliking the way in which they are treated when being raised for food. This probably comes as close to logical justification as any of the TGDE criteria ever have.

A brief side note addressing the second point: Oh God, I love these two foods. I really can't imagine my diet without them. I go through periods of eating vastly irresponsible amounts of bacon, punctuated by periods of eating irresponsible amounts of bacon. I probably consume more lamb than any person outside of Iran (maybe the Middle East in general,) and can't imagine somebody enjoying the taste, nay, experience of eating it more than I do. Side note over.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Tube-Shaped Meat!


That's right. Not just hotdogs (justifiable) or blood-sausage (super-justifiable.) Any meat that is currently or has at some time been in the shape of a tube is not to be consumed.

Aside from the wonderful array of overtly tube-shaped foods this eliminates from her diet, the chunks of sausage commonly found on pizza are also out of the question.

This also includes foods too closely related to established tube-shaped foods, such as breakfast sausage patties. While these are arguably not tube-shaped, they are called sausage, and are therefore not considered edible.