Cleveland, OH
Eating plant-based in Cleveland can be oh, so appetizing: Greg Evans
JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee — As a journalist, over the years I have experienced my fair share of criticism and hate email. I even had a death threat writing out of Sinaloa, Mexico, years ago. However, never do I face such savage animadversion (flak, slur, acrimony) as when I am out to dinner with friends or even family, and a red-meat-eater overhears me ordering — to their horror, learning that I will not be joining them in the double cheeseburger with a heaping side of double-deep-fried Twinkies, or the ribeye slathered in clarified butter, but rather plan to enjoy a plate off the plant-based section of the menu.
“Ain’t no meat in that. I can’t eat supper with no meat,” they say, as if I have any interest whatsoever that they need a pile of animal innards to satisfy them.