So, thanks to that stupid show, The Simple Life, i can no longer eat hot dogs.

Yes, yes, i know you're wondering why i'm watching that stupid show in the first place. Well, what can i say, those blondes sparked my interest. I'm incredibly sad at the thought of leaving my hot dog/sausage eating life behind. Those who know me will know my love for hot dogs. Simple and plain, with ketchup and a bit of mustard. That was the way i liked them. Sometimes with that green relish stuff if it was around. Other times with grilled onions...damn those grilled onions smelled so good. Those one dollar hot dogs at Ikea....those were the days. But those days are no longer. This after watching how hot dogs and sausages are made. They stuff the ground up meat in pig intestine!! I'm definitely a carnivore, but sometimes when i see the process of meat and how it gets to my plate, i feel like i can turn herbivore. But chicken...chicken is soo good. I feel that though chinese by birth, and recently american by citizenship, i share one thing in common with the african americans: our love for chicken. Roasted, toasted, deep fried, pan fried, with or without the waffles...however you do it, chicken is just plain yummy.

But i digress.

So i shared my sadness with my cubicle buddy mitch, who is a vegetarian. He informed me that there are vegetarian hot dogs out there, and they're not bad. So, i guess all is not lost. But i haven't tried those suckers yet, so i can't really say for sure whether this new no-hot-dog-eating thing will be a dilemma for me.

I guess its what they call, "ignorance is bliss." If i didn't know how meat was processed, i would probably eat it all. But once i know how something is made, or what is really is in front of me (ie, sea urchine, intestines, liver...etc), I won't want to eat it.

A couple weeks ago i went out to lunch with my mom and my uncle, who is a vegetarian. And so we went to try a new chinese vegetarian resaturant, which was pretty legit (this coming from a carnivore), so much so that i even forgot we were in a vegetarian restaurant (even after the buddhist monks showed up...haha). We ordered some noodles, and in mine, i found a piece of something i was not familiar with. I showed it to my mom and asked her what it was. She said, "thats what they call, pig intestine."

Ugh, yuck, i thought, and began a process to donate this unfamiliar piece of food to my mom, something i often do to my parents when i don't want to eat something. But then she said, "SH, YOU CAN EAT IT." Thats when i realized and remembered: duh! i'm in a vegetarian restaurant!! So i just chuckled to myself, and ate my artificial pig intestine. It wasn't bad! It's amazing what they can do with soy these days. :0)

Sometimes i think i can go vegetarian. Almost all vegetarian meat products are made out of soy, and i love soy byproducts like tofu, so whats the problem right? But there come those times when i just want a nice piece of chicken, or a good in n out burger. Not steak so much...i'm not a big steak fan. Sometimes when i eat it i just feel like i'm chewing on a piece of muscle...cow muscle. But sometimes i just want my meat. So, we'll see where this thing goes.

Today at Trader Joes i saw those veggie dogs that mitch spoke of. But i knew i couldn't finish so many, so i went for the veggie ground meat instead. I'll let you know how that goes.

This is SH, signing out.