Sitting down for dinner with colleagues who haven’t been briefed on my plant-based preferences usually begins a little something like this…
“Wow, you’re a vegetarian? I could never give up meat! Yeah… I could never be a vegetarian… I love bacon. Don’t you like bacon??? What about chicken, will you eat chicken? Fish? No? But fish isn’t meat! So you… really?! Not at all? Wow! Good for you. I could never… Where do you get your protein? You aren’t vegan are you?…”