This one takes the cake

[Sharon in Colorado]

I was e-mailing with a friend about e-bay how I'm going to be selling my Champion juicer. And she responds with:

>>Why you selling your juicer!? did you give up and go back to meat? <<

This has got to be one of the most amusing and strange comments about my diet ever.

[Pailani]

I guess a lot of people associate raw diets with juicing, probably because of the Hallelujah Acres diet. So if you're selling the juicer, you must be off the diet.

[Revvell]

>>Why you selling your juicer!? did you give up and go back to meat? <<




Well, did you? :eek:

*giggles and wanders out*

[Sharon in Colorado]

Revvell - LOL - No, I like my Breville juicer better. Plus I can use my food processor to make the nut butters and banana ice cream, & need to get rid of excess machinery in the kitchen! That sucker weighs 20 lbs and is quite bulky!

For me it's been easy to stay vegetarian even though I keep going on and off raw for the same amount of time I stopped eating all meat, poultry & fish, over 3 years now. I do still struggle with raw, but I will never give up on it!

Funny, Pailani, I asked her why she thought one thing had to do with the other? There are plenty of vegetarians, raw fooders, etc. who don't juice at all, and plenty of meat eaters who juice as a supplement to their diet. I didn't understand the association in her mind.

[Autumn]

My brother accused me of the same the other day. I was talking to him on the phone and he heard some noises and asked what I was doing. I told him I was making ravioli.

He immediately boomed, "A-HA! I KNEW you could stay on that stupid diet much longer!" I said, "You're wrong. I'm making raw ravioli." He laughed and said, "Yeah right, what do you do? Not cook the pasta??? Gross! hahaha!"

When I told him I was making it out of turnips, he said he'd rather die at 40 then eat that way. Considering his diet includes at *LEAST* one pound of red meat EVERY DAY, I simply told him, "You will."

[Pailani]

Funny, Pailani, I asked her why she thought one thing had to do with the other? There are plenty of vegetarians, raw fooders, etc. who don't juice at all, and plenty of meat eaters who juice as a supplement to their diet. I didn't understand the association in her mind.

Sharon, in her defense, being a person who tends to ask stupid questions myself . . . :D I know that there are many varieties of vegetarians, vegans, raw foodists, some who overlap, some who are religious about it, some who are laid back, etc. But I've done a lot of reading about it, I've read some books and done research online and read a few message boards. I don't think most people have really thought about it. They may classify people as either "normal" (eating whatever version of the SAD diet they're accustomed to) or dieting according to traditional methods (Weight Watchers, Atkins, etc) or they're into some weird fad, like raw food! :eek: LOL! It may be easy for her to assume that, since you're getting rid of the juicer, you're abandoning the world of food fads and re-joining the world of normalcy. She probably has no idea that her question was odd, or rude, or stupid, or whatever. To her, it was probably an honest question.

[VeganVixen]

yeah , I sorta agree w/pialani , Id probably THINK the same thing -even though I VERY rarely juice......but its still a funny thing when you think about it ......

[Autumn]

Funny, the first thing I would have thought is that she bought a new/better one. I guess that's because I'm a shopaholic! :D

[I~Wanna~RAWk]

Funny, the first thing I would have thought is that she bought a new/better one. I guess that's because I'm a shopaholic! :D

Yep, me too. I would just assume you've up-graded :D

[VeganVixen]

I love to shop , but not for appliances - I guess Im too "if its not broke why fix it" .....

[Sharon in Colorado]

>>She probably has no idea that her question was odd, or rude, or stupid, or whatever. To her, it was probably an honest question.<<

You are right. I knew it was an innocent question. I actually LOL'd her back and asked her why she thought that, and never answered her question directly. I want to see how she responds. I actually did have a laugh when I read it because she's one of those people who really doesn't know much beyond the traditional SAD diet, that I wouldn't be offended by, because she's just truly curious.

>>Funny, the first thing I would have thought is that she bought a new/better one. I guess that's because I'm a shopaholic!<<

Yes, you and me both!

Well, maybe when the time comes that I get rid of the oven, I *can* actually tell folks that I finally "gave up cooking and went back to nature"!

[Ginger]

I love my Breville! :D