"Vegetarian"...Old Indian word for "bad hunter"

What is it about women and vegetables?  If a bunch of women get together for a girls night out I can almost guarantee you that, once they all go to the restroom together, most will come back and order plates full of vegetables.  Colorful vegetables.  They seem to have this obsession with green ones, and orange and yellow, too.  But mainly green.  It's something dietitians have harped on for years, but have you noticed....most dietitians are women.  Coincidence?

Women have attached some near-mythical status to spinach and carrots and squash and beets, veggies that most men see as having little redeeming social value.  Speaking for myself, and you can quote me on this, "Blech!" 

Like most men I'd rather spend my dining energy chewing on something that not long ago was walking around on four legs.  That's probably why steak houses are always decorated in a heavy, masculine style....beams, wood paneling, etc, while tea rooms have flowery wallpaper and miniature dishes (so I'm told).  

IMO the social scientist who first came up with the concept of "hunters" and "gatherers" was spot on.  My concern, however, is that today men are becoming more feminized.  For example, if a man goes to a market to buy his meat, is he still "hunting" or is he now "gathering"?

The most insipid new product facing men today is faux-meat.  They've actually learned how to take vegetables, somehow melt them down, cosmetically alter them, and press them into shapes that make men believe they're eating meat.  Well, very nearsighted men, at least.  

Come on wives and girlfriends, please don't do this to us.  We admit you're smarter than us, but please allow us to enjoy this one last little primordial piece of our caveman heritage.  We deserve our steak, our scotch, and a nice after-dinner angioplasty.  Let us go out with a little dignity.

Bon Apetite.  :)

S