On Nov 3, 6:01*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> On 03/11/2010 5:46 PM, Dan Abel wrote:
>
> > In article
> > >,
> > * > *wrote:
>
> >> For ZBob, portobello mushrooms make a great meat substitute - and you
> >> can a great scalloped corn or even a cheese souffle as a side dish.
>
> > Our daughter was a vegetarian for eight years. *She hates mushrooms.
> > She's not a vegetarian anymore, but she still hates mushrooms.
>
> That reinforces comments I have made here about it being a fad diet.
> *From *my experience, very few people raised with meat in their diet
> stick to a vegetarian diet. That's part of the reason that I am not
> interested in catering to them. You are all welcome to cater to your
> vegetarian family and friends. Don't expect me to. If they come to a
> turkey feast there is turkey and side dishes. They can eat the side
> dishes. If you want meat, eat meat. If you don't want meat, don't look
> to me for artificial meat.

I was raised eating meat. I gave it up at 17, in 1988. 22 years later,
i'm still a vegetarian.