{"id":1375,"date":"2007-01-20T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1375"},"modified":"2009-06-10T22:10:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T02:10:32","slug":"steak-is-delicious-sorry-melly-its-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1375","title":{"rendered":"Steak is delicious (sorry, Melly, it’s true)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I had the most delicious steak for lunch. Thick sirloin, grilled to perfection. Mmm. <\/p>\n

I have to say, I didn’t miss red meat at all during my years as a vegetarian, but I also may not have realized that some of my lethargy at that time was due to anemia (the rest of it was due to being a teenager and pining after unattainable boys). <\/p>\n

I learned this about myself by going to Red Cross clinics with my good friend , whose goal it was to join the “100 donations” club. CWF would already be hooked up to the pipe, blood chugging merrily out of her veins as though her bone marrow just couldn’t wait to be making a fresh batch. I would still be standing forlornly at the nurses’ station, willing the stupid drop of blood floating in the iron test vial to sink, sink, sink damn you<\/i>! My tiny heart would be bursting with the milk of human kindness, the desire to “give the gift of life” overcoming even my intense fight-or-flight response to needles, but after a) fainting after three donations, and b) failing the iron test twice in a row, I am now officially on the Red Cross shitlist, and have been asked to please not continue wasting their time and also eat more liver, thank you.<\/p>\n

I wish I could blame my deathly pallor on anemia, too, but I think I have to chalk that up to genetics and a disinclination to use self-tanner. They say the average adult has nine years worth of B12 stored in the liver, but I’m pretty sure mine has about three hours’ worth on a good day. The upside to this is that, unlike many people who approach steak with a fearful lust born of the knowledge that their cholesterol levels are about to soar, I consider it a gift to my weak-ass hemoglobin. <\/p>\n

Sure, there’s iron in green vegetables, beans, dried fruit, almonds, seaweed, etc. All of which I also enjoy. But there’s something to be said for just sinking your teeth into another animal and being all, “that’s right, bitch, I AM at the top of the food chain”. On the other hand, many of my most treasured food treats (tea, chocolate, red wine) interfere with the absorption of iron, but am I going to avoid them just to increase the amount of oxygen that my stupid, needy muscles get? HELL NO.<\/p>\n

In other news, I am seeing and for dinner tonight (more meat?) and to get their keys so that I can sit on their cats while they’re away this week. Also, tomorrow and his wife are in town, and I can’t wait to give them both tremendously big hugs and kisses. Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I had the most delicious steak for lunch. Thick sirloin, grilled to perfection. Mmm. I have to say, I didn’t miss red meat at all during my years as a vegetarian, but I also may not have realized that some of my lethargy at that time was due to anemia (the rest of it […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}