I eat meat because I simply couldn't exist on a vegetarian diet. I can't tolerate vegetable foods for sensory reasons partly, and partly because everything else about them just makes me retch.
I remember being forced in my lfa school to eat some of that vegetable-based crap, and immediately rushing to the shitter to throw up. It was quite literally less traumatic coming back up than going down. Even the thought makes me shudder and my stomach do backflips.
If my folks are cooking veg, especially brassicas, then I can't stay in the kitchen while its cooking, the stench is hideous.
Fruit is fine, except for pitahaya, horned melon (tastes EXACTLY like tomatoes) and dragon fruit. Not too fond of sharon fruit either, although I can eat them if hungry and its what is there in front of me, but I wouldn't buy any for myself.
But I'll eat bananas, passion fruit, and especially their larger relative, the grenadilla like no tomorrow. And fresh oranges. My old man just brought back a big bag of oranges from his shopping. Took me probably less than 5 minutes to scoff the entire lot. And lemons/limes, I'll eat those fresh too just like an orange, I like citrus in general. I have a pretty voracious appetite when it comes to fruit in general. But I do love a nice big fat juicy slab of fried dead cow, saturated in soy sauce, tabasco, brown sauce and liberally covered in a mixture of black pepper, peppery boletus (A poroid mushroom that grows in association with silver birch trees, and has a quite potent degree of fiery heat, thats unique and quite different to chilli peppers or black pepper, unfortunately not at all a commercially sold species, although quite common here in the UK; so if people want any they must harvest their own. And powdered fly agaric mushroom. An essential in chilli (having that tonight) and on steaks for my taste.
Or best of all, a fiery spice-saturated gravy made with morels. Very, very expensive to buy and not easy to find either. But they get my vote, dried or fresh as one of the very best of the best of all edible fungi, at least all that I've tried, which is saying something considering how many weird, and occasionally wonderful oddball mushrooms I've tried munching on.
Whilst I care very little for store-standard bland Agaricus spp. I'll eat them, but I have an absolutely huge appetite for wild mushrooms, my favourites being morels, parasol mushrooms, giant puffball, some other puffballs, esp. the genus Calvatia and some of the larger Bovista spp., sulfur polypore, Edible boletes, waxcaps....there is a very long list of other, less impressive but still very tasty stuff out there waiting to be picked and munched on. Not to mention though a few truly disgusting ones. I won't forget the time I tried stinkhorn eggs. I was up all night, sick as a dog, throwing up repeatedly. Never, ever again. Those are edible IMO, only on the technical fine distinction between actually containing poisons, and merely awful beyond belief and horrendous on the insides.
