Veggie food for carnivores
It’s always gratifying when I serve something vegetarian to an unrepentent carnivore and they really like it.
At a recent gathering, I served mock chicken-salad sandwiches, using the exceptionally yummy mock chicken salad from Whole Foods (I’m also a big fan of Earth Fare’s mock chicken salad—it’s sublime). My most carnivorous friend, a real meat-and-potatoes guy who seemingly has never met a green vegetable that he liked, kept going back for another and another sandwich.
“You could have told me it was real chicken salad, and I would’ve believed you,” he said.
Now, I don’t believe for a second that he’s suddenly going to renounce steaks in favor of tofu. But maybe it will help him be a bit more open-minded about trying vegetarian food in the future, now that he’s realized that he actually LIKES some of it. It makes me feel good, like I’m helping to change misconceptions about vegetarian fare, one bite at a time.
Have any of you had successful “experiments” of serving vegetarian fare to a carnivore?
