Thank god vodka is vegan.
After watching the latest episode of 30 Days this weekend about farm animal abuse, Dane and I are all ready to climb up on our high horse (after we whisper gently into his horsey ear, “Do you mind if I climb up on you?”) and ride it around like only a vegan knows how to do. What I am saying is yes, we are totally going vegan for one entire cheeseless meatless honeyless month.
And that month starts today. Well, tonight actually. At dinner. Which will be vegan mac ‘n cheese. BABY STEPS.
You all remember the proposal Dane made to me last week when he offered to give up control over his diet to me and I offered to do the same with my writing “career”, right? Well, this is the upshot. And instead of just going healthy, organic, and local I decided to make things impossible by playing the vegan card. And Dane is DOWN WITH IT. So down with it, he’s starting his own blog - www.daneeatsvegan.com. It should be up tomorrow and he’s promised to post every day for a month about his journey into veganhood. I’m hoping he talks a lot about his poop.
I’m pretty excited about it, but then again, I like rice and vegetables and nutritional yeast and tofu.
Dane likes meat fried on a stick….dipped in butter.
And just to keep us motivated, here is a picture of what I think I might look like in 10 years - or for that matter, Dane too - if we don’t give this a shot:
Kathleen Turner: Probably not vegan
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Goddammit. I’m about to send you a tersely worded e-mail, so I hope you’re ready, you bastards.
–Charley, yes-man for the Delicious Crunchy Animals lobby
Go ahead. You can’t sway me, man.
It’s only for a month. I doubt it’ll stick.
OK. I want in. Will you please post meal plans for me and Justin to follow? I already drink the rice milk, and giving up cheese will probably help me lose those stubborn extra
305 pounds. Let’s DO THIS.No.
I keep trying to do this but I can’t get past breakfast.
I can do without everything else but life without cheese is just not worth living.
And don’t give me that soy cheese horseshit. It’s just gross.
Unless there’s a brand you can recommend…
And I can’t wait to hear about Dane’s experience.
After the one month, you should go to the Minnesota State Fair. They’re famous for their vast cornucopias of varied “foods-on-sticks”. Like pork chop-on-a-stick and spaghetti-on-a-stick.
I guess 30 days of vegan-hood is an idea and might not actually kill you.
You know I’m all for the arbitrary exercises in self-control. I am. Especially when its about mixing up your routine of obsessing over minutia. Great. Keep it fresh.
But keep in mind that, as your best friend, it falls to ME to keep the balance. Like when I go to tapas at Lolo, now I have to get the bacon wrapped dates AS WELL as the suckling pig- just to keep things even in the universe. I’m just saying it gets expensive, young lady.
But whatever. I love you. I help where I can.
i give you guys a week. self control is sooo overrated.
I’m with Sy and Charley… can’t you just buy tasty animals from a farm where they are treated like Egyptian royalty before they are mercilessly slaughtered for dinner?
I mean, it’s a freaking chicken (turkey, salmon, cow, ect.) for crying out loud! If we don’t eat it, something else will. Their lives will end in essentially the same way.
Besides, plants are living creatures too… I’m quite sure that corn doesn’t appreciate having to be run through a combine.
I am excited for Dane’s blog. I’m vegetarian and I don’t think I could do this. Good luck. It is going to get rough once someone smells a grilled cheese.
Well, I don’t actually LIKE meat very much so this isn’t too difficult for me. I do like cheese, so we’ll see what happens in 30 days. It’s only one month. I can do anything for only one month.
But mostly, mostly I just want Dane to be healthy and this is a good way to reboot him. I’m pretty proud of him for being so enthusiastic about this. I would think his family would want to support him, too….NELS.
Plus, that stupid tv show made me cry - with the cows in the pens and the baby cows…THE BABY COWS.
Anyway, we’ll see.
Oh dear. That’s all I have to say. OH. DEAR. Thank god someone is blogging about it.
You guys need to go check out the vegan mini-mall on SE Stark and like 12th I think. There you will find a store called Herbivore, which is run by an old friend of mine Josh Hooten. He’ll like you in a way he was never able to like me because I’m only vegetarian. Any way - he will totally hook you up with all the finest info on how to be vegan the awesome way. Also he is funny. And has a podcast. Its called the Naked Vaygun. okay I’m done.
Every time I think I might flip and go back to chicken or something because I know I would be healthier and lose like 30 pounds, I think of this:
http://buzzfeed.com/scott/pig-in-boots
and then I think about shooting him in the head rather than playing with him. And I then I don’t want meat any more, because that pig wants to wear boots and not be dead.
Oh you can do it! I was vegan for 8 years (not now thanks to food allergies), so one month is doable. Just try to think of soy cheese as soy, not “cheese” or your taste buds will be like “What the fuck is that? This is not the cheese we know and love! You cruel, cruel bitch…” (or at least that is what MY tastebuds do, they have serious attitude problems).
Anyway, I look forward to reading the “daneeatsvegan” blog. Wait, is he going to take pictures of everything he eats? This should be interesting…
Mmmmm, baby cows.
Was I still vegan when we met? I think I was maybe just coming off of it. Six months was enough to live it and see what I thought and also to consume a substantial number of weirdo chemicals from replacement products - but I imagine there are better options now.
You guys should come up here and we’ll double date at My Thai. The wait staff asks you if you’re vegan when you sit down - it’s adorable. The chef is vegan and he’s goddamn magician.
Yes! My Thai! Whee!
I just want to live it up all month and go places in public where I can make a big noisy scene about being Vegan.
Plus, obviously, yes, hanging out with you.
And yes, you were just ending the veganness…but I’m doing this with as little smart sausages, etc…as possible. A lot of grains and beans and vegetables and nuts.
A lot of peanut butter is what I’m saying.
I think we can all agree that peanut butter is an EXCELLENT vegan crutch!
I dated a Vegan once. For a couple years. She was the best cook I ever dated. She cooked great. This is the worst story of all time.
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART
I was just thinking this morning that I should go vegan for a month just to lose that extra 10 pounds, but 15 minutes later I thought That’s CRAZY! So you should post recipes so I can be inspired.
I was vegan for a little while in honor of a Very Hot Vegan Girl and, you know, it is fucking hard. I mean, eggs are in every goddamn food. Some sugar, wine, and beverages are filtered through charcoal made from animal bones. Some red dye is made from insects and, because synthetic dyes are thought to be harmful, that dye is in many of the healthiest foods and juices. Like, figuring out whether you can eat something requires so much thought and research that you’re not hungry anymore by the time you know. And the answer is almost always “no” anyway.
But good for you! I’m all for random exercises in deprivation and self-control. As long as other people are doing them.
The vegan minimall is right by my house—the bakery, Sweet Pea, has pretty good pastries and a $10 all-you-can-eat breakfast on Sundays…
Alison said the magic words.
Man, a vegan “$10 all-you-can-eat breakfast”?
My question is would you ever get full? Or would you just get bored with all the chewing and swallowing of vegan food and leave?
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