I think that cooking a vegan meal would be an enjoyable challenge, i mean, it certainly wouldn't stop me from inviting a vegan to dinner.

first, certain kinds of meat cooking (like bacon) just smell disgusting,

Yeah, the last time I was in Vegas with my girls, some of us were in the process of cooking and eating a pound of bacon when one of the vegetarians came down begging us to open the door to dissipate the smell. We were like "????" but I guess I can see it being nasty.

Cooking meals with various restrictions seems limiting at first, but after a while, you barely think about it. (Just glancing in my kitchen now to come up with meals for the week, I've got noodles with seitan and peanut sauce, cauliflower-lentil curry, tofu-watercress stirfry, black bean chili with cornbread, and split pea soup. And that's just from a vague sort of "What can I see from my couch or remember I have in the fridge?" I think the noodles with seitan and the tofu-watercress stirfry will be the stuff I actually make -- the first because it uses up stuff I can't use on Passover, and the second because that watercress is going to get gooey if I don't use it in the next day or two.)

I know more than a couple vegans who are just fine with dating meat eaters.

And I've had plenty of delicious vegan food.

Yeah, I don't think the bacon smell thing is really related to me being vegetarian, actually -- I've always thought the smell was gross.

I wonder if people who deeply love music would break up with someone who listened to music they hated?

Hmmm, I don't think I'd even date someone that didn't mostly mesh with me musically. I love music and love to see bands. GF and I are as one on this issue, fortunately.

I really don't like the smell of raw chicken. However, I really like cooked chicken so I just suffer. I can tell when someone has just started to cook chicken in the over because of the disgusting smell.

I do like the smell of raw beef though. And I like my cuts rare, so it's good I do!

Yeah, I don't think the bacon smell thing is really related to me being vegetarian, actually -- I've always thought the smell was gross.

See, that's just weird, because bacon is the most delicious thing ever and smells delicious!!

...I mean, of course that's a reasonable opinion.

This is a dumb story not at all on-topic, but for the last couple months I've been mentally thinking in my head, "what happened to X financial services company? They must not be in business anymore. I never hear about their products." And just now I was looking at the lit windows of the building across the street (literally like 30 feet away) and was like "I wonder what kind of business they're in? Not lawyers. Maybe financial services...wait, I remember what building that is, I see the sign all the time. It's X financial services company!" I can see their computer screens from here. I am an idiot.

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