# I crave meat, and it confuses me **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-meat-and-it-confuses-me/327567 "2005-10-23T22:38:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-meat-and-it-confuses-me/327567/41 "2005-10-25T05:00:05Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Raw souls. Maybe with a little salt, to bring out the flavour. Aha - _that’s_ it! 😃 Yeah, tomorrow’s definitely a grocery run, and I’m going to splurge on some MorningStar or Garden Burger or equivilant products. I don’t normally because they’re pretty beyond my budget (I can get, what, thirty packs of ramen for the cost of one pack of that stuff). Maybe it is just a protein thing - I doubt this, because as I said, I’m all about the peanut butter and cheese quesadillas. I’m certain that I’m fine iron-wise - isn’t fatigue one of the main symptoms of anemia? The only tiredness I’m feeling is due to the combination of too much work, not enough hours in the day, and an ongoing bout of insomnia. But that’s why we have coffee… ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-meat-and-it-confuses-me/327567/42 "2005-10-25T10:25:57Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > Oh, and you’re thinking that the drinking played absolutely no part in her being sick the next day? Never heard of a hangover, hmmm? If you’ll read the post a bit more carefully, my dear, you’ll see that I said her excessive drinking was not at all unusual; she was not normally sick as a dog for 24 hours after a night on the town. The variable in the equation was her consumption of chicken wings. Ergo, the reasonable conclusion can be drawn that it was the chicken wings, and not the alcohol, that led to her illness. And I don’t know about your experiences, but being “sick as a dog for 24 hours” is not exactly the normal definition of a hangover. That would delve into a whole other level of excess, bordering on alcohol poisoning, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-meat-and-it-confuses-me/327567/43 "2005-10-25T11:44:10Z")
I would venture to suggest that microbial food poisoning (such as Salmonella) is a more likely scenario. I’m sure that our gut bacteria populations _do_ get attuned to the foods we most commonly eat, but “sick as a dog for 24 hours” the day after eating chicken wings sounds like Salmonella to me. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-meat-and-it-confuses-me/327567/44 "2005-10-25T12:08:24Z")
> [@Grelby](#): > > Curious, curious, curious. I am a stressed-out college student myself, and yet have never felt an urge for meat. Of course, given what they do with pork at the dining halls here… that may not be surprising… That was _pork_? Coulda fooled me… At least you didn’t have the mystery meatloaf that changed colour where it was cut. We decided that it was oxidising. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-meat-and-it-confuses-me/327567/45 "2005-10-25T16:31:16Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > That was _pork_? Coulda fooled me… > > At least you didn’t have the mystery meatloaf that changed colour where it was cut. We decided that it was oxidising. 🙂 Well… that it was pork was actually no mystery. The more disturbing thing about it is how it’s prepared and _shudder_ garnished. I can only assume that, round about December or late January, the dining service here order a metric assload of cheap pork chops, and then forget that they exist. Round about March, they remember that, oh yeah, they’ve got a whole ton of pork chops in frozen storage. Should get around to using those, eh? Result: hideous, dry pork chops for the entree. Every night. Until mid-April. But it gets worse! Realizing that plain porkchops would be lame and no fun, they decide to make things a little interesting by garnishing them with various other…foods. So we get porkchops with a slice of lemon on top. Porkchops with zucchini on top. Porkchops with duc sauce and a slice of tomato - FUCKING \*\*DUC SAUCE \*\*, AND A SLICE OF TOMATO! Oh, the agony. I’m moving off campus this summer. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-meat-and-it-confuses-me/327567/46 "2005-10-25T16:47:06Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > At least you didn’t have the mystery meatloaf that changed colour where it was cut. We decided that it was oxidising. 🙂 I had dining hole food that ate holes partway through the styrofoam take-out containers. I never did figure out what it was in the food that might do that, and I’m sure I’m better off not knowing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-crave-meat-and-it-confuses-me/327567.md?page=2)