I feel dirty

Sep 22, 2011 16:54

So ever since I switched my diet and stopped eating fast food and tortured animals, there's been one thing that I've consistently craved: the Chick-Fil-A sandwich. It haunts my hungry thoughts like heroin does a junkie.

See, I'm pretty flexible about most of my dietary restriction, because I believe that absolute 100% rules about food without exceptions can be just as bad as having no rules. But the one thing I don't compromise on is meat. It's just too easy to avoid factory farmed animals for me to ever excuse eating one (unless it's about to be tossed by someone, becasue I think waste is worse than anything). The fact that pasture-raised animals taste a million times better makes it even more of a no-brainer.

But that damn Chick-Fil-A sandwich...

I broke my rules once, about a year after I adopted them. We were in Florida and I was helping my mom pack up and move. Someone made a Chick-Fil-A run and there it was, staring at me, that fucking delicious sandwich. I was starving. After several moments of anxiety I stole a bite, scarfed it down, reveled in its deliciousness, and then tried to pretend it didn't happen.

Yesterday I broke them again. See, a Chick-Fil-A opened this year at my university, which I still regularly frequent for screenings and whatnot. Last weekend was my birthday so I was like "fuck it." Besides, I told myself, these strict rules just make me crave it more. So I bought a goddamn Chick-Fil-A meal. I was still wracked with guilt about it, so my wife joined me in my transgression, eating just a grilled chicken breast since she recently discovered a likely wheat allergy. I also got a sweet tea. Chick-Fil-A is one of the only places I know of in CA to get properly sweet sweet tea.

I ate my food. It was.. okay. Just okay. It was not the deliciousness that I had remembered. The meat was bland and a little mushy. Honestly the pickle was the best part. It wasn't *bad* really, it was just... not good. And I was so relieved!

I still feel kind of dirty for doing it (especially since CFA is a conservative Christain company that hates the gays), but I'm glad I did because now that damn sandwich can't haunt me any longer. I shall make my own delicious chicken sandwiches out of proper pastured chicken sans wistfulness!

But I still love waffle fries and sweet tea.

ethical food, chickens

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