[net.veg] Cookouts & Commitments

dyer@vaxuum.DEC (The companies will be very pleased.) (07/05/85)

Re: Cookouts & Commitments______________________________________________________

	As much as I'd like to host a vegetarian cookout, I don't have a yard
big enough to so it in.  I also don't have a grill.
	Most cookouts I go to are my significant other's family's events.  None
of them are vegetarians (except, of course, my significant other).
	I don't try to convert them.  Proselytizing usually doesn't work very
well, it just makes the proselytizers unpopular.  Usually when I go to these
family events I bring along some tasty vegetarian entrees.
	By just blending in among the carnivores (-:), we're helping them see
the wisdom of our ways (-:).  My significant other is the only woman in the
family who isn't trying desperately to get slim.  (I should point out, though,
that several of the other women in her family don't need to get any slimmer
than they are; but they are caught up in our society's ridiculous obsession with
excessive slimness for women.)  We're both healthy and energetic.  Her family
sees that.
	What I don't want her family to see is us having to make great sacri-
fices to be vegetarians.  I've never felt as if I've given anything up (or at
least anything worthwhile) to become a vegetarian and I certainly don't want to
give this impression.
	And that's why I want veggie cookout recipes.
		<_Jym_>

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