jenhowell77
12/365 Any port in a storm
EDIT - After vomiting three times in one night and suffering severe heartburn which led me to the Korean ER, I am no longer, ever eating McDonald's french fries again. Instant karma got me, I guess! Also, I think I already lost 2 lbs. in just one week from not eating the things.
So, McDonald's has become part of my life again in Korea. Back in Portland, I'd go to McDonald's and get french fries maybe once every year and a half and always feel immensely guilty about it afterwards, because McDonald's french fries are not actually vegan or even vegetarian. That's right - because of a small amount of natural flavor which I believe has beef fat in it, McDonald's french fries don't even have the decency to be vegetarian.
Now I'm a vegan and I've been a vegan since 2003. Some people (many people in fact) would say that after what I just said I'm not, in fact, a vegan. And back in Portland, hell, I didn't feel great about the occasional french fry breakdown - there was really no excuse what with all the vegan fried food lurking about the place.
But here, in Korea, where the one vegetarian restaurant in my neighborhood closes at 9 p.m. every night and many worknights I don't get home til after 10 - I say I'm a motherfucking vegan even though my french fry consumption has gone up considerably.
They're really horrible for me, and yes, I've seen Super Size Me, but would you want to cook if you finished work at 10 p.m. and you lived in a tiny apartment with one burner on the stove and about 1/5 the counter space of the average American kitchen and you're a vegan so you can't just buy soup and throw it in a pot and heat it up? Well, would you?
Hence, McDonald's french fries. I'll probably wean off them again after intensive classes are over in February but for now, god help me, "I'm lovin' it." And yeah, that's their slogan in Korea too.
12/365 Any port in a storm
EDIT - After vomiting three times in one night and suffering severe heartburn which led me to the Korean ER, I am no longer, ever eating McDonald's french fries again. Instant karma got me, I guess! Also, I think I already lost 2 lbs. in just one week from not eating the things.
So, McDonald's has become part of my life again in Korea. Back in Portland, I'd go to McDonald's and get french fries maybe once every year and a half and always feel immensely guilty about it afterwards, because McDonald's french fries are not actually vegan or even vegetarian. That's right - because of a small amount of natural flavor which I believe has beef fat in it, McDonald's french fries don't even have the decency to be vegetarian.
Now I'm a vegan and I've been a vegan since 2003. Some people (many people in fact) would say that after what I just said I'm not, in fact, a vegan. And back in Portland, hell, I didn't feel great about the occasional french fry breakdown - there was really no excuse what with all the vegan fried food lurking about the place.
But here, in Korea, where the one vegetarian restaurant in my neighborhood closes at 9 p.m. every night and many worknights I don't get home til after 10 - I say I'm a motherfucking vegan even though my french fry consumption has gone up considerably.
They're really horrible for me, and yes, I've seen Super Size Me, but would you want to cook if you finished work at 10 p.m. and you lived in a tiny apartment with one burner on the stove and about 1/5 the counter space of the average American kitchen and you're a vegan so you can't just buy soup and throw it in a pot and heat it up? Well, would you?
Hence, McDonald's french fries. I'll probably wean off them again after intensive classes are over in February but for now, god help me, "I'm lovin' it." And yeah, that's their slogan in Korea too.