The Blaſphemous Bicycler

So far, so good. I didn’t manage to stay totally Vegan, mainly due to lack of proper planning, but I’m working up to it.

A few observations:

1. Tofurkey Italian sausages are really freaking disgusting.
2. Soymilk in your morning coffee and on your breakfast cereal is pretty much indistinguishable from the real thing
3. Vanilla Soy Yogurt is about as good as the real thing.
4. The healthy food store is full of hippies and weirdos.
5. I lost 2 pounds last week.

The other day the Large Fella posted a tirade on the evils of the standard American diet.

I am in the middle of reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which also has kind of put me off the agricultural-industrial complex.

So, Brandi and I were out at our favorite Indian restaurant the other night, and I got a vegan curry.

It was very nice.

Then it dawned on me:

Veganism can be an excuse to eat Indian food everyday!

Holy shit!

So, for the past 24 48 hours month or so, I’ve not had any meat, eggs, or dairy. I’ve been eating all the curry I want, and aside from horrendous (weapons-grade) flatulence, all is well.

I’m not sure how long I can keep this up. I have basically no willpower, the paint is starting to peel from the walls, and my cats won’t come out from under the bed for fear asphyxiation.

It will be interesting to see how far I can take this experiment. Maybe I’ll be a very skinny, stinky bicycler in a few months.