The odds of finding one is slim to none
Hello, my name is Mona. I was vegetarian once for an entire duration of 6 months! Then I was cursed by the wrath of Arab parents for my blasphemous life choice. 
I don’t remember why I was vegetarian. I was 19 or 20 years old and naive. It was a fad too, and I was not much of a meat eater anyways. So converting my eating habits to the natural goodness of the earth was not so difficult. At that time, my dad was working in the US, and he didn’t know. My mom didn’t care, because it was more work and time consuming to cook meat. Cooking meat does suck up your electricity bill.
When my dad came back, he noticed that I didn’t eat meat at all. He then said this, and it will keep ringing in my head for eternity, “We are Arabs! We HAVE to eat meat!”
HAVE is a strong word coming out of my dad’s mouth. HAVE = MUST = FOLLOW ORDERS OR YOU WILL BE NAGGED EVERY DAY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! I am dead serious. This is NOT a joke!
After today’s dinner, I feel like converting and accepting the eternal nagging and blasphemous life choice. Sometimes defying the Arabian thought process is an ok thing. Wasn’t it the main intention of this “spectacular” blog?
So for dinner, my mom made southern style fried chicken. I ate a piece, and then this horrible after taste stayed in my mouth. The more I ate, the more I felt it. The more I dug into that chicken leg, the more I felt something was NOT right. Although it looked scrumptious, I decided that I didn’t want to eat the entire leg. Then I took my fork and dug deeply into it close to the bone. The meat near the bone was not that nice pinkish colour we all know and love. No. It was GREEN! It was horrible, nasty GREEN! :mrgreen:
I threw out the chicken and I spent the past hour in the washroom. Yah… I use the term washroom. So Canadian like! Anyways, my stomach is still turning like a blender. So if I don’t post or reply to any email in the next 24 hours, then assume I am dead turning in bed suffering from the after effects.
I think this is the day when converting to vegetarianism (sounds so religious) is the wise choice. 
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great post, mona
I thought you were going to take a shower.. I see you lurking on my website instead!
lol
yah……..i want to be a vegan as well. the thought has been really permeating my every move as a slide the knife and fork nearer to that leg or whatev. i will join that calling if it is indeed sincere.
I always thought that most Arabs detest the eating of chicken and its consumption was the result of foreign influence. So your reaction is only natural.
LOOL..i hope you feel better …..will i am not turning into a total vegetarian ..i do love and adore shawerma and BBQ…the other day i was walking in Ramallah and had to walk in a street where 5 shops sold fried chicken and i felt so repulsive i wanted to through up in the street and the problem the shops were full ….so afterward i decided not to eat fried chicken unless it was totally HOME MADE the one that mom does ….today i had to go to a MORTADELLA company to photo shoot something and the smell oh my god its so nasty …so no more of there pink meaty things any more …..
It sounds like the chicken wasn’t fully cooked. Yuck! I find fried chicken hard to digest because it is so fat and greasy it lies on my stomach like a rock giving me this bloated uncomfortable feeling. I don’t eat it very much because of this.
My sister did the same thing – 19, decided to become a vegetarian. Never really liked meat. My dad’s feelings? We are farmers! We HAVE to eat meat!
It lasted for 6 months or so…
I rarely eat meat and when I do it’s normally chicken or I will eat fish. How fish is considered NOT a meat (for us Catholics during Lent) is beyond me because fish sure as hell isn’t a plant. Anyway, my daughter is the same as me and we rarely eat red meat. I think all of will live longer by downsizing our meat consumption.