This is the first post from our Dubai correspondent, Rahul.

I was asked to guest write for Spokane Food Blog. I’m going to soapbox about something that had been bothering me for a bit.

My cousin bet me a full steak dinner that I couldn’t go for a month being a vegetarian in 2005. It was the longest month of my life. In that time, I realized how pervasive meat is in our daily lives. In my desperation, I started looking at fake meat and realized that a lot of vegetarian options mimic meat dishes. Most vegetarian dishes seem to have been inspired by meat in some form. I didn’t find anything that celebrated the vegetable-ness of vegetables and wondered why that was the case.

I came across the “pseudo-vegetarian” who chooses to follow vegetarianism and yet crave meat all the time. It does seem like most vegetarian restaurants cater to them. I think that these poser-mobiles need to just accept that they are “non veg”.

Look, I can understand the people who have religious, diet or other logical reasons to stay vegetarians and fully well support their decisions. But for those who go around looking for the latest in tofu breakthroughs while craving a good BLT, I say, eat the damn bacon and accept that you will forever enjoy a good steak or some fried chicken.

For those who object to eating an poor animal that was killed, while wearing those “killer” leather Cole Haan shoes, I say, eat the damn bacon and accept that animals have been killed for their meat since the beginning of time. Meat in combination with vegetables is a well balanced and healthy diet.

I could go on, but I believe my point has been made. Just eat the damn bacon already.