Think salad is just rabbit food? Not in MY house!
June 28th, 2006 by Scott
Ever since I embarked on this little carnivorous adventure of mine, I’ve fielded a wagonload of questions regarding my dietary habits, ranging from the genuinely curious to the utterly inane: Do you eat ONLY meat? Is your cholesteral, like, totally out of control? How many animals do you eat a day? Et cetera. One of my favorites so far is, “Do you eat any vegetables at all?” That really gave me a hearty chuckle, as if this person’s image of me is not far removed from those lions on the Discovery channel, you know, the ones who take down a zebra or an okapi or whatever and just go to town on the carcass right there on the sunny savannah, growling and grunting and tearing into the bloody, still-warm flesh of the dying beast. Because that’s what carnivores do, right?
Okay, yes, that would be very, very cool. But I like to think that, as a late modern human living in the industrialized world, I’m just a little more refined than that. Plus, if I could take down a zebra on my own, without the help of, say, a large guage shotgun (or even a good, sharp spear for that matter), I would NOT be a writer. I’d be Tarzan.
Point is, yes, I do eat vegetables. I enjoy eating vegetables. Usually, having a few vegetables in your meal accentuates and intensifies the flavors of the meat (you ARE having meat with your meal, right?), and makes the whole experience that much more pleasurable. Consider that any half-decent meat-stock recipe — veal stock used as a base for soups or sauces, for instance — requires some coursely cut carrots, onions and celery. Also, a well balanced diet keeps you nice and regular; face it, if we had the same diet as lions and tigers we’d spend the majority of the workday on the can. Vegetables are important.
But what about salad? Many carnivores consider salad rabbit food, the kind of thing that waify model-type people ingest in order to avoid consuming anything that might actually contain more than a couple dozen calories. Well forget that! Here’s the way to do salad the Shameless Carnivore way:
Not too shabby, eh? What we have here is an improvised leftover salad made with whatever I had lying around after a barbeque: a little bit of grilled chicken, bacon bits (NOT the artificial kind made from soy that tastes nothing like bacon and should be banned from this world indefinitely — the people who invented that junk should be tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity); roma tomato chunks, sliced avocado, a healthy dose of crumbled bleu cheese (remember those inside out bleu burgers I made?), all resting nicely on some fresh romaine lettuce. Drizzle on some nice vinagarette, give it a quick toss and voila…lunch of champions: well balanced, high in protein and fiber, low in carbs, and very, very meaty.
Rabbit food? Please.
Rob wrote on 12/18/09 at 9:49 pm :
No offense, but, if you eat veggies, you aren’t a carnivore, but an omnivore.
However, there are real human carnivores. Check out my link to ‘meat’ them.