I'm a vegetarian who is vegetarian because meat doesn't appeal to me.

I don't like the texture most of the time, fairly frequently the smell of it cooking is wrong and unappetizing or flat out disgusting, the taste is... not for me.

And it felt so wrong to force myself through eating an animal instead of being grateful like I should be that I just quit.

So a lot of the time with food porn it doesn't quite land for me, because the dishes are meat based much of the time and it just - almost works but I know I wouldn't like it.

But something about the framing of Delicious in Dungeon does away with that dissonance for me.

that is interesting

It's like "this is something Senshi cooked to nourish us all. It can be strange and ambivalent: that's OK! Just go ahead and feed your body and listen to it. Give it a try!"

And that makes it really effective

Isn't it though? It's really cool to notice how it works for me!

Oh that’s an interesting vegetarian motivation! I’m sort of that way, but only with certain types of meat - namely steak and pork chops and the like. But i do like fish, ground meat, and softer types. Still, I’ve found that many days i just prefer the meatless alternatives!

How do things derived from animals but not meat strike you? Like stocks?

That makes sense! Let's see its been so long it's a little hard to remember but I recall mostly having less trouble with stock. Stock is often strongly flavored with other things too, like herbs or onions, which often helped. Still, even so I would have days where animal stocks were too rich. (I still eat dairy though, though I do run into the 'too rich' iss

Issue - especially with milk) (Eggs are disconcerting on their own.)

('Impossible' meat substitute can be fun in a recipe where it's not alone but I don't care for it in burgers much.)

(Eggs alone set off texture issues, except sometimesscrambled is doable)

I keep to the ovo-lacto vegetarian thing pretty strictly though, because it's hard for me to predict enjoyment and it sucks for me when I feel like I'm not honoring the animal. (Lard is also heavier than I like my pastries. I use a fair bit of vegetable oil and sometimes butter, though!)

Also if I'm stricter it's easier to explain. And then, since I am, if I mess up and eat something with more animal in it than I expected I, you know, am not accustomed to digesting it and can get an upset stomach.

(Also it does cut down on the number of ethics in food production issues I have to deal with, though of course labor, land, and water use are all big concerns with plant based food too.)

But definitely not as big of concerns as with livestock! I watched a Kurzegagt video on it once that showed how we could feed the entire world on a tiny fraction of the land we use for meat swapping to plants. Wild.

It was a pretty fair video too, acknowledging that meat is great to a lot of people, but does have pretty severe downsides the way we do it

Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World 🍔

Ooh that looks interesting! Honestly the thing that astounds me is how much meat our culture eats, and how much of it we have to produce to meat that demand. All industrial agriculture is staggering but still! That at this point Meatless Mondays adopted more widely would mean a big scale back is just wild.

("Meat" that demand...hehehe)

What's wilder is not how much meat we have to produce to meet that demand, but also just how much feed we have to produce to feed the animals that become the meat. So it's the land for the animals PLUS the land for the plants that aren't going to people.

Yeeeeah that is very true. Like the alfalfa for export taking so much water in the US west in particular

Or how MANY states are nothing but corn fields for feed and bio fuel

I am certain we could grow something other than corn in those fields if we didn't need the feed.