History Main / MeatVersusVeggies

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels, the cooks at Lancre Castle believe that if you can't roast it and stick an apple in its mouth, it's not really food. ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'' has a male cook who is driven to insanity by Duke Felmet's diet of porridge, soft-boiled eggs and vegetarian sausages; ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'' has a female one who terrorises Magrat whenever the soon-to-be-queen uses words like "vitamins" or "quiche".

* On Carolyn and Hercules's first not-a-date in the ''Radio/CabinPressure'' episode "Ottery-St-Mary", Herc orders a salad and an aubergine risotto, and Carolyn's reaction is "But they have real food here!" When he explains he's vegetarian, she calls his reasons childish, and then pointedly orders the rack of lamb and the whitebait platter ("Thirty little lives, yum yum!") [[NoAccountingForTaste This is about typical of their relationship]].

* In ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldNextOrder'', this is taken to the extreme, with the Digimon living in the Ohguino Wastelands managing to turn the debate into a full-on war.

* Given a slightly different spin on ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' in a sketch where a meat-eater is invited to a dinner party at a vegetarian couple's house and, when told what the menu is, asks what the 'meat' option is. The vegetarian, of course, replies that they're a vegetarian household and there's no meat option. During the ensuing argument, however, the meat-eater points out that when he had the vegetarian and his partner over for dinner he was courteous and respectful enough to provide a vegetarian meal for ''them'' despite it not being his preferred choice of meal, and the vegetarian expecting the meat-eater to bend over backwards to accommodate his dining preferences in the meat-eater's home without being willing to do the same when the roles were reversed is in a way rather rude and hypocritical. The vegetarian finds he has no comeback to this, [[RefugeInAudacity so they decide to cook the family cat for the meat-eater.]]

* Given a slightly different spin on ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' in a sketch where a meat-eater is invited to a dinner party at a vegetarian couple's house and, when told what the menu is, asks what the 'meat' option is. The vegetarian, of course, replies that they're a vegetarian household and there's no meat option. During the ensuing argument, however, the meat-eater points out that when the meat-eater had the vegetarian and his partner over for dinner he was courteous and respectful enough to provide a vegetarian meal for ''them'' despite it not being his preferred choice of meal, and the vegetarian expecting the meat-eater to bend over to accommodate his dining preferences in the meat-eater's home without being willing to do the same when the roles were reversed is in a way rather rude and hypocritical. The vegetarian finds he has no comeback to this, [[RefugeInAudacity so they decide to cook the family cat for the meat-eater.]]

* Given a slightly different spin on ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' in a sketch where a meat-eater is invited to a dinner party at a vegetarian couple's house and, when told what the menu is, asks what the 'meat' option is. The vegetarian, of course, replies that they're a vegetarian household and there's no meat option. During the ensuing argument, however, the meat-eater points out that when the meat-eater had the vegetarian and his partner over for dinner he was courteous and respectful enough to provide a vegetarian meal for ''them'' despite it not being his preferred choice of meal, and in a way it's actually a bit rude and hypocritical of the vegetarian to expect the meat-eater to bend over backwards to accommodate the former's dining requirements in the latter's home without being willing to extend the same courtesy when the roles were reversed. The vegetarian finds he has no comeback to this, [[RefugeInAudacity so they decide to cook the family cat for the meat-eater.]]

* In ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldNextOrder'', the Digimon living in the Ohguino Wastelands manage to turn the debate into a full-on war.

* In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'', Bowser uses meat-based healing items while the Mario Bros use mushroom-based ones (although the Bros are heavily implied not to be vegetarian generally when a door recommends Mario eat more puttanesca (which contains anchovies) in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]''. Nevertheless, Bowser's meat-and-sweets-exclusive diet is used for comedy quite a lot of times in the game, particularly in the sequence where a dispute between Bowser and a vegetarian carrot farmer (who believes that 'a healthy body craves no meat') leads to Bowser being forced to eat a carrot the size of a large car, which he moans about several times later.

Bob is a born and bred "meat and potatoes" type of guy. He counts meat-related foods as his TrademarkFavoriteFood, has a BaconAddiction, staunchly believes that RealMenEatMeat, and in extreme cases will willingly become a BurgerFool just to be close to the burgers. Chicken, pork, beef, fish, lamb, goat--if it's meat, he'll eat it without any qualms, and he's not afraid to be a [[IncrediblyLamePun Large Ham]] about it.

** Another episode has her horrified when, while acting as a surrogate for her brother and his wife, she starts to crave meat. Her friend Joey vows to take up vegetarianism during Phoebe's pregnancy to balance it out.

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* A couple of scenes from ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'' show Sigrun to be on the meat side of the conflict. After an early UnfortunateItemSwap results in the main cast having a supply of candles instead of food, a merchant ship drops new food crates. One contains vegetables (which greatly disappoints Sigurn), and the second is about one third cans of tuna and two thirds a young man who had hidden in the the crate. The ship is too far away by then, so MissionControl gets called about it. Sigurn complains about one of the crates being filled with "garbage food" and only after that mentions the stowaway.

'''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' on this page. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment PLEASE.]] The last thing we want here is [[FlameWar a brawl between "meat-and-potato people vs. Vegetarians."]]

'''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' on this page. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment PLEASE.]] The last thing we want here is [[FlameWar a brawl between "meat-and-potato people vs. tree-huggers."]]

* A couple of scenes from ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'' show Sigrun to be on the meat side of the conflict. After an early UnfortunateItemSwitch results in the main cast having a supply of candles instead of food, a merchant ship drops new food crates. One contains vegetables (which greatly disappoints Sigurn), and the second is about one third cans of tuna and two thirds a young man who had hidden in the the crate. The ship is too far away by then, so MissionControl gets called about it. Sigurn complains about one of the crates being filled with "garbage food" and only after that mentions the stowaway.

* In addition to all of Georg's other [[PointyHairedBoss authoritarian neuroses]] in ''Series/{{Naeturvaktin}}'', he is a batshit insane gluten-free vegetarian who abuses his position as petrol station shopkeeper to peddle homebaked spelt bread to customers coming in for hotdogs.

* James Lileks' fisking of the [[http://lileks.com/institute/gallery/meat/index.html Meat Cook Book]] in his Gallery Of Regrettable Foods includes many comments reminding readers to never, under any circumstances, eat the vegetables.
-->WARNING! The carrots here are not to be eaten. Your manly meat-a-rifficness will diminish if you eat the carrots. ''Vegetables are for commies.''
** Though, if you read the gallery, it's pretty clear he finds all the meat recipes revolting. That's not because he hates meat; he loves it. It's just that all the meat recipes ''are'' revolting (the vegetable ones aren't any better).

* In ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', it's Carnivores versus Herbivores. Earl and Fran reacted to find broccoli hidden inside Robbie's room like they had found some illicit drug.