So they can have a little bacon, as a treat?

no i like meat more than sweets but both bacon and pizza are overrated af. my taste is more middle eastern though, so lamb meat, kebab, hummus etc are more my kind of tastes.

i didn't wanna go much into detail about this on vegan comm but here we are.

I haven’t even seen bacon donuts in a few years

This is how I find out??? RIP

The Bacon Tuxedo was from 2007, and when that happened I remember thinking "Ok, this bacon thing has gone too far." The Beggin Strips "bacon bacon bacon... It's Bacon!!" commercial first aired in 1989.

I'm a meatasaurus but I had veggie sausage in elementary school and one day decades later I needed it and I eat it all the time now it's so good.

Sort of tangential, but I accidentally left out some nori seaweed sheets (like the super plain kind) on a humid day, so just tried toasting them a lil in the toaster oven, and it made them good.

Perfect for a crunchy sushi handroll.

I'm 100% with you on this. It sounds like copium, but creative limitation absolutely comes into play here. Before becoming pescetarian, vegetarian, and then eventually vegan, my diet was terrible and had almost no variety despite the fact that I like to cook for myself. If I went to a restaurant, it would be the one thing I knew I liked. At home, even though I could technically make essentially anything I wanted, there was an intense gravitational pull around meat and cheese keeping me in the same sets of dishes with little variety. It was generic burgers or pepperoni pizza or canned soup or basic burritos or pasta Alfredo/with meat sauce or paninis consisting of 90% meat/cheese and 10% everything else. If I was feeling "healthy", it was either a type of meat with a baked potato and broccoli or a salad of iceberg lettuce with ranch, garlic croutons, bacon bits, and cranberries.

Now, I try (and often end up loving) new foods almost on instinct including the "weird" ones; I've come to understand that so many foods I didn't previously like were either prepared improperly or I wasn't getting the right kind; the meals are almost inherently healthier; I use a huge variety of spices and sauces to make my meals different and vibrant every single day; and my dishes don't revolve around essentially "a single type of meat with some ancillary stuff" or cheese and carbs.

Nothing was physically stopping me from doing that on an omnivorous diet, but I personally would never have because I treated meat and cheese like a crutch.

Antifreeze tastes good but no one thinks a diet that excludes antifreeze is restrictive. Because it's poison!

Of all the humans who will die this year, about ONE THIRD will die from coronary disease acquired from consuming animal products. And that's just one way animal products kill us, they make up like five of the top six most common causes of death. It's fucking antifreeze.

People are shocked to find they enjoy food without antifreeze in it. Feel better after eating food that doesn't have antifreeze in it. No fucking shit!

It does not limit my culinary world one jot to exclude antifreeze from it. I was also forced to discover there was an entire universe of foods that I had been directed away from, that my culture had been induced to forget. All that weird stuff in the produce section and the farmer's market, where I used to think, "Who eats that weird shit??" ... Now I eat that weird shit! And it's really good!! I have a whole new set of favourite foods, and now they are so cheap and healthy, I can eat them for every meal if I chose, and I would be more healthy than I was when consuming animal products.