I couldn’t be vegan, but I could be pescatarian or vegetarian. Cheese, milk and butter are my lifeblood (also who would willingly deprive themselves of honey? Honey’s amazing).
Animal-wise I eat mainly pork and seafood on a day-to-day basis.
Chicken is bland, and more smaller animals need to be killed to get the same amount of meat as bigger animals like cows or pigs, so poultry generally i stay away from in the shops. Beef is ok but not something I like enough to have all the time, also far more cows are slaughtered than probably any other land animal, so again I stay away in the supermarket.
So I stick to pork really. Not raw joints either; pre-cooked slices, chorizo, etc. Raw meat is disgusting and if pre-cooked meat didn’t exist I would have become a pescatarian years ago. But I do like pork so I buy it and put some in stews and things, keep a sausage roll or pork pie in my fridge for when I get a hankering. Seafood I’ll eat whatever and wherever, no anchovies on my pizza though. Also, meat is just expensive. Extra money I spend on meat is cutting into my precious cheese budget.
There are, of course, caveats.
If I’m getting takeaway or am in a restaurant then I will get whatever looks good, because I don’t do either of those things often and so like to indulge myself when I do (Indian has to be lamb, Chinese has to be duck - those are my takeaway happy places). Same at Christmas or some other family occasion where I am just expected to sit down and eat whatever the host has prepared.
Dairy I’ll eat too. Cheese, milk, butter, all of that please. Too many eggs give me eczema but I do like them occasionally.
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