Veggie Brief

Little Miss Thing, age 7: “Mom, why are you a vegetarian?”

Wonderful Wife: “It’s a long story.”

LMT: “Tell me the whole thing.”

WW: “I don’t like the taste of meat.”

LMT: “That wasn’t a long story. That was only one sentence.”

WW: “It’s the short version.”

Vegeterrible

(Chinese restaurant)

Boy at next table: “Don’t order tripe! It’s intestines from an animal!”

Older sister: “They clean it first. It doesn’t taste bad or anything.”

Boy: “But it came out of an animal.”

Sis: “It was dead. It didn’t care.”

Boy: “No one asked it first!”

Calm Mom: “Let’s talk about tofu options for you.”