“If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding!”
Sorry to be so predictable, but those words were almost painfully audible to me when I read your post.
This seems on topic.
I’m similar to @puzzlegal. I just don’t like the taste of most vegetables. I have found a few that I can tolerate and force myself to eat them.
I certainly believe you but that is the reverse of most kids who instead refuse to eat their vegetables.
My mom was a terrible cook so pretty much the whole meal sucked. Meat cooked to near sawdust (literally sometimes) and veggies boiled to mush. She wasn’t being mean…she just really sucked at cooking.
But, when that is all you get, that is what you eat or you go hungry.
My mum grew up when all Scottish cooking had to be brown - the meat, the gravy, the peas, the carrots. And if it didn’t start out brown, that meant you had to cook it longer until it was…
Unapologetically omnivore and will mock militant or self-righteous vegans/vegetarians. On the other hand I’ll host vegan game nights for the vegan gamers in the group. Pulled jackfruit sandwiches are fantastic.
Well, i don’t think I’m in the 12%. I enjoy beef, and when i eat it, i often have more than 4oz, but i eat chunk-o-beef less than once a week. I eat many other meats, and I don’t eat animal flesh every day.
Yes they f*ckin’ are! 
That begs for a recipe to be posted (or PM me if that is a hijack too far).
Voting for either “…not a hijack too far”, or “maybe we should start another recipe exchange thread…”.
Best with fresh jackfruit. Youtube will show you how to take it apart.
I prefer Sweet Baby Rays or Stubbs vegan sauces, but obviously whatever you want is fine.
/hijack
I loved (I still do, but it was especially notable when I was a kid, I guess) vegetables. Aside from asparagus and eggplant, I’d eat anything that was a vegetable. Broccoli & Brussels sprouts were particular favorites, and I liked fresh peas raw (I don’t mean snow or snap peas-- the regular ones that were shelled-- I loved shelling peas as a little kid, but my mother had to keep telling me not to eat too many, or there wouldn’t be enough for supper.
Didn’t like carrots cooked, but loved them raw.
I was usually refused third helpings of veggies until I took at least one bite of my meat.
When I saw jokes on TV about kids not liking veggies, I was always highly indignant.
This is me. I was considering to mark both flexitarian and omnivore, because the reality is somewhere in between.
My husband tends towards more meat heavy dishes, especially as he doesn’t like beans, nor green leafy things (spinach, kale). I do have a few vegan and vegetarian dishes he does like, so he does eat less meat than before. I love eggplant, but he won’t touch it, so I only eat it in restaurants.
It would be a nightmare to prepare a meal for both of us. One of the few veggies that I like is asparagus. I wonder how common it is for asparagus to be tolerated by mostly carnivores and vice versa.
I eat it now. When I was a kid, it was the texture, not the taste.
There’s a woman on another website who cringes whenever she sees some variation of “Grandma’s Home Cooking” because her grandmother couldn’t cook if her life depended on it.
That would be interesting … I love vegetables, EXCEPT asparagus. The texture and the taste. And I’ve never liked any meat all that much. I think my favorite meat is bacon. But that’s just smoke, salt, sugar, and fat, covering most of the meat taste.
My husband would eat meat every day, except that I’ve convinced him he shouldn’t. He likes asparagus too. But there’s little he won’t eat except pasta salad.
Flexitarian. I eat a lot of veggies, eggs, and cheese. I cook meat once a week for my family, with enough veg worked in to make it 2-3 dinner’s worth. But when it comes to breakfast and lunch (on my own) it’s pretty much ovo-lacto veggie with an occasional can of tuna.
If I weren’t cooking for anyone else I would probably settle into pescatarian eating. But then I think about bacon and I’m just not sure.
Flexitarian, depends on what day/ or time of year it is. About half a year no meat, half the year meat.
Which half is which, and why?
Religious dietary rules. Most Wednesdays and fridays (there are around 5 ish w and f that have no restrictions), and nativity fast ( 11/28-1/6) great lent ( 40 plus days) apostles fast (varies due to pascha) and dormition (2 weeks). It is really close to half a year with food restrictions having a bit of a majority. Thankfully there is a detailed calendar.