(Lunch at Pearl Oyster Bar -- REBECCA is having the pan-fried cod sandwich, DOUG* is having the fried oyster roll, GANDA* is having fried oysters and Caesar salad with extra anchovy; we are discussing the merits of the Spider-Man movies.)
REBECCA: My friend saw Tobey Maguire in L.A. and said he looked awful.
DOUG: He must be a druggie.
REBECCA: No, he wasn't on drugs, but he was pasty, like he was...uh...
DOUG: A vegetarian?**
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*This, despite the fact that red tide has shut down Massachussetts shellfishing and the fact that my friend Dottie says no oysters in months without R. But I trust Rebecca Charles not to kill me and fried oysters just sounded so GOOD.
**Note to Doug -- Don't think I'm not going to use this against you when you journey towards the dark side of the force and stop eating meat, as you keep promising to do.
There was an episode of Bullshit!, Penn and Teller's debunking show, that made the observation that you could tell the meat eaters from the vegetarians...the episode was the one on P.E.T.A. :-)
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=peta