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Join Date: May 2006
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Hello all,
I've lurked around on VB for a month now and thought I should introduce myself.
I'm a 28 year old vegetarian who grew up in India, currently living in NYC and will be moving to London next month. I grew up vegetarian, in a country where being vegetarian is totally unremarkable, so I'm still getting used to the umm, interesting reaction that being vegetarian sometime provokes here. Eg.,
Friend: you're vegetarian?! Where do you get your protein?
Me (looking puzzled): mostly from food.
Little old lady: If you feed your kids no meat you are going to stunt their growth!
Me (staring down from my 5 feet 8 inches height, and I'm a girl): (still looking puzzled)
VB has really helped provide answers to some of the stranger questions I get asked (I totally love the 'funny things omnis say...' thread), and I hope to contribute often: my job is crazy busy, so I might not be too chatty on weekdays, but the weekends are mine, all mine!
I've lurked around on VB for a month now and thought I should introduce myself.
I'm a 28 year old vegetarian who grew up in India, currently living in NYC and will be moving to London next month. I grew up vegetarian, in a country where being vegetarian is totally unremarkable, so I'm still getting used to the umm, interesting reaction that being vegetarian sometime provokes here. Eg.,
Friend: you're vegetarian?! Where do you get your protein?
Me (looking puzzled): mostly from food.
Little old lady: If you feed your kids no meat you are going to stunt their growth!
Me (staring down from my 5 feet 8 inches height, and I'm a girl): (still looking puzzled)
VB has really helped provide answers to some of the stranger questions I get asked (I totally love the 'funny things omnis say...' thread), and I hope to contribute often: my job is crazy busy, so I might not be too chatty on weekdays, but the weekends are mine, all mine!
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Veggie Regular
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 5,982
Hi surya, welcome to VB and congrats for outing yourself from lurking! It's weird how nutty people are about vegetarians sometimes.
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Beginner
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 104
Thanks for the welcome, Michelle and Elliots mom (I have to show my husband your avatar: he is a huge David Bowie fan and has a t shirt with the same picture. With sequins on top!)
Veggie Regular
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 800
HA! I have the exact shirt
Veggie Regular
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Southern California
Posts: 20,217
Welcome to VB! 
Isn't it annoying how people who normally have no clue about nutrition suddenly become nutritional experts when they hear the word "vegetarian"?
Isn't it annoying how people who normally have no clue about nutrition suddenly become nutritional experts when they hear the word "vegetarian"?
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Veggie Regular
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 692
Omnis can be uneducated sometimes. 
Welcome to VB!
Welcome to VB!
Beginner
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 104
Thanks you your kind words y'all! And good to see that they are other Indian veggies around as well!
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