Here in St. Andrews I had a very funny conversation with a colleague. I don’t know how much you know about haggis (you could look it up), but it’s the quintessential example of a food where you really really don’t want to know where it comes from.<\/p>\n
I mentioned to my colleague that three years ago, when I first visited Dundee, a friend had taken me to a restaurant where they served vegan haggis. My colleague was astonished by this revelation.<\/p>\n
Getting into the spirit of things, he asked me “Which part of the plant do they use, exactly.”<\/p>\n
Warming up to the theme, I replied “You really don’t want to know.”<\/p>\n
Then I pretended to hesitate, out of a sense of delicacy. “Actually, it’s the part of the plant that, well you know…” and here I feigned an embarrassed silence, a delicate understanding that to say any more would require me to cross a line of discretion that must not be crossed.<\/p>\n
We both laughed, and then I had a thought.<\/p>\n
“You know,” I said to him. “The way that we just had a fake conversation, because we were talking about plants?”<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
“Well,” I continued, “the way that it would have been real if we weren’t talking about plants. That’s why I’m vegan.”<\/p>\n
He totally got it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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