Visiting Uncle Frank was always a good time until it came to dinner. He always insisted we go down to the pier and have a fresh caught meal. I still remember the sign over the door…
Come in and eat
Come in, they say
Eat all you can
Shells’ll be taken away
Stand on the docks
See how they run
Crabs going sideways
Always for fun
Fish doing flips
Because they need air
Then they get chopped
Nothing is fair.
For me, a vegetarian, I have always been disturbed at the thought of watching my food move, then eating it.
©2023 CBialczak
Stine Writing 
Your story is amazing.
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I also find it rather wierd to choose a live being as my meal..
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I would never be able to raise live stock!
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Nor me!
PS I have been fretting over my typo – talk about being weird 😛
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I like the way you put it – ‘watching my food move, then eating it’. That captures your feelings very well I think..
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I honestly cannot think of the actual creature if I am eating something other than a vegetable. It just makes me so sick.
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Oh, it would be so hard to visit Uncle Frank if you knew what was going to happen.
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Sorry to hear about your daughter. I hope an immunologist can sort it out for her.
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Every time she goes she learns she is allergic to something else!
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😦
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Fun poem in the middle, but I agree – hard to eat meat when brought face to face with its past.
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It must be hard to be a vegetarian with an uncle that surely doesn’t understand how that could be…
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My daughter used to be a vegetarian. She actually had to stop because she became so allergic to so many fruits and vegetables that she couldn’t figure out what to eat anymore. Anyhow, when her dad was alive he would always joke and ask her if she wanted a hot dog. I think it’s because my father always asked her.
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Oh my gosh! I’ve never heard of a vegetarian having to stop because of allergies. Fathers would do that, wouldn’t they?
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My daughter, and late son, never even had one ear infection as a child. They never got sick. I was so lucky. Then about three years ago my daughter kept landing in the ER in anaphylactic shock. She is allergic to everything now! Almost all fruits and vegetables, gluten, soy, even alcohol that isn’t clear! Latex…I could go on and on. It is so bad.
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I am so sorry you also have a late son.
Doesn’t it make you wonder where and why so suddenly these allergies appear? Jeez… Poor her.
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I was so confused! No one I know of in my family or my late husband (her dad) has any allergies like this. This also happened to a teacher I used to work with. One day she was eating PB & J the next she was in the ER!
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I bet you were! Especially when there is no history in the family. It’s crazy!
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I love lobster, but I couldn’t enjoy it if it had died at my specific request. But that’s life I guess.
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Dear Christine,
I’ve added your link to the inLinks https://fresh.inlinkz.com/party/d387d3e3c19044a8a37a4e6dc6ddc24f and removed it from my comment section. You have a much better chance of your story being read on the list.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle. I think you’ve told me this before…I get so excited to write I don’t even look close enough. lol
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What??? You haven’t seen lettuce swaying to music.😆
Nice unfolding of your story.
Isadora 😎
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Quite!
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