Recycling for Thanksgiving

Recycling as in using materials from some of my older posts at the blog!

With Thanksgiving round the corner, I reviewed some of my posts, and came across the following two:

First, from 2009, in which I noted that my life is way less complicated compared with this::

This will be my first Thanksgiving as a vegetarian—excuse me—as a black vegetarian from the Southern United States. As in Texas. As in raised on meat as much as milk. My dad barbecued every weekend. Sunday dinners revolved around collards and green beans with turkey chunks in every forkful, salads and baked potatoes were always sprinkled with bacon. Thanksgiving always included fried turkeys. 

This year, I’ll be bringing the Tofurky. 

A wonderful short essay.  Read it here


The best line there is this one though:

Vegetarianism is the dietary equivalent of Republicanism in the black community

And, given the phenomenal overeating that happens, well, this one from the same year (the image is from the Economist):

Gobble, gobble, gobble ;)