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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (13696)	10/19/1998 6:01:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Alex, maybe you worry too much. It's only a person who's lost their mind who looks at a bunch of food they don't like, or don't think they can like, and says to themselves "I should eat that." "I should want that." Oh really? What am I, crazy? You know, veggie Eskimos are darn hard to find. That may be one of those absolutes, even; one I could use on MJ; but I'd have to crawl north and survey every one of them first to satisfy her, with a third party to make sure I didn't pay the sixth Klingut I met. And "most," of course, is useless compared to "every last one". You have a lot of yuks on your list there. I think you should assume you have a higher genetic purpose in the human scheme of things. Enjoy what you eat, even if it doesn't. I wouldn't even venture to say butternut, by itself, sucks, that it's in the admixture, because you would would need a potent talisman to even think of it. It's not going to happen. I believe you would starve to death, and that wouldn't be very nice. Kids have aversions, almost all, to vegetables mostly. I did too. I remember them. I was nauseated by dozens of them. I'm not kidding ~ nauseated. People, those same dreaded things, say you need these things, you need to eat lima beans. No. No you don't. I liked corn. Potatoes. But zuccini, floating dark green in a damp-water-butter bowl, would hit me right in the vomit center. Dash hid his peas. Avocados I couldn't look at. Pure slime. Even bananas were iffy. You don't like this stuff. So? Find another way to moderate any body chemistry that worries you. Can you? And remember ~ genes as emphatic and particular as yours must serve a higher purpose. Really. I will ask MJ, my Mommy, about B12. She knows everything.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (13696)	10/19/1998 6:28:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I read your impromptu poem on the romance of the vegetarian stove and I realize what a culinary invalid I am. Yeah- And he made it sound so appealing and so right that you know you must be at fault, that it's your problem, that you somehow took a wrong turn on the dietary road of life and now wander in the ghetto of grease and fats and bad things, far from the clean high rise of vegetable yuppiedom. Even though Gaugie is extremely kind and sweet and not at all obnoxious in his veggie state, don't you feel inferior? This weekend I made Spaghetti Bolognese from scratch (Kid's verdict--"We like the stuff from the jar better") and I felt really proud until I was bragging to Gaugie and realized it had MEAT, so then I was embarrassed. I mean, I don't lie to him. Sometimes I even get uppity and say things like, "I just ate raw hamburger." Just to gross him out--which is very hard to do. But in my heart,I know he's right. Just like my kids know I am about everything. And besides, there are people like you who make even people like me look healthy. ha ha ha. I like apricots and cumin and lentils. You , my dear, are trapped in a teenage timewarp. Gaugie is right. Your gag reflex never became muted by the passing of the years. Hopefully, your body has retained the wonderful ability to utilize all the crap you put in it the way my kids seem to. THey grow pale and vacant on a diet of nourishing, nutritious food. They NEED preservatives, and sugar and grease to survive and function at their peak. Maybe it's evolution and you were a forerunner.