Vegetarians I Have Known

"A" was a vegetarian of convenience; though she commonly only ate vegetables and generally only indulged as far as eggs and milk products, she claimed "bacon is a spice" when it was time to make a good quiche.

"K" was a vegetarian of inconvenience. When a group would get together to go out to eat, she would sometimes grudgingly complain that there weren't any good vegetarian choices on the menu. We would point out that she wasn't a vegetarian; in some instances we were able to point out the steak or ribs that she had enjoyed for dinner the previous night. In those instances, just before going out to eat with a sizeable group of omnivores, she would claim to be newly vegetarian. Rather than randomly, this bit flipped with seeming relation to the size of the dinner party.