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No meat today

We know several people who are vegetarian or vegan. We know they are because they tell us, often, that they are.

Even the nurse at my GP’s who was giving me a jab told me three times in 7 minutes that she was veggie.

We don’t go around telling people we eat meat. So, we have various theories as to why they need to keep telling us:

  • they feel they are superior to us
  • it’s like a religion, and they have to keep saying it to reinforce their faith
  • they are trying to annoy us into changing
  • they feel they are doing something good and want people to know it
  • they hate it and secretly regret it, so they are trying to convince themselves

Or maybe there’s another reason.

Years ago we were at a recording of Just A Minute at the BBC. One of the panellists was Sheila Hancock. She was getting on for 80 then. A subject that came up was something like Smashed Avocado, and she went on about how she was veggie and ate it everyday and hated it and hated so much of the food for being tasteless.

On the rare occasions when we go to restaurants, we notice that there are always veggie options. Maybe it’s a law, don’t know. But if you go to a vegetarian restaurant, there are no meat options for the non-veggies.

People are allowed to eat what they want, and it’s nobody else’s business.

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Foodies

There’s a whole group of people in the UK (probably elsewhere too, but we’re just concerned about these) who review restaurants, take aways, cafės and the like on YouTube. We are talking about people/channels like Gary Eats, Greeno, Hannah Ricketts and the like. No links for any of them. If you want you can surely find them yourself.

They all seem to know each other. They talk about each other’s videos and visits to places, appear on each other’s videos and seem very pally. We have always assumed, though we may be wrong, that they all work for the same company somehow.

They are all white and middle class and middle aged (in the widest sense) characters, but each has some kind of angle (was going to say gimmick but I don’t want to be unfair) that makes them appeal to different audiences. Gary Eats, for example, constantly taps on his food. Harrison Webb talks weird slang. Whether they are genuine or not is not clear.

The restaurant videos often follow a similar and we suppose obvious format: the presenter is outside some place, we learn where they are, there’s a pretext why they are there (eg X reviewed it and hated it), there’s maybe a camera person (never seen and rarely heard but referred to a lot). They go in, talk about the place and the menu, order food and drink, eat it, discuss pros and cons including price, then go outside with the receipt to sum up.

They can travel the country, but have been known to go abroad too.

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