Doing the Lord’s work.
How’s that old joke go? “How do you know somebody’s a vegetarian? Wait 5 minutes and they’ll tell you.”
Now obviously I have nothing against vegetarians. Do I think they’re missing out on one of life’s greatest pleasures? Absolutely. There’s nothing better than a perfectly-cooked steak. And no plant in the world is going to come close to a juicy, grilled burger. Hell, if I could eat barbeque every day of my life I would (although my life would probably be significantly shorter if I did, but still, worth it).
But to each their own, and to some that means ditching the meats and going vegetarian or vegan.
In fact, during an appearance on the Are You Garbage? podcast, Luke Combs revealed that when he was growing up back home in North Carolina, even his dad had a vegetarian phase – until a teenage Luke managed to show pops what he was missing.
“My dad actually, for seven or eight years, was a vegetarian.
Listen dude, we lived in Asheville. This is the San Francisco of the east coast. It’s a very eclectic spot to grow up.”
Of course, while Luke says he and his mom still ate meat, having a dad who was strictly vegetarian meant that many of the family dinners would have to be vegetarian too.
Luke said that he would “almost bully” his dad to try to get him to eat meat – and finally one day, he caved:
“I remember the day my dad quit being vegetarian, because I would almost bully him…
I was probably 13, 14 at this time and just had enough. I’d just had enough. I was putting my fat foot down…
So I remember going up, and we had made this steak and my dad was eating his whatever, like lentil loaf or whatever he was eating. I remember just looking at him and I’m like, ‘God, this guy looks sad over there.’
I was like, ‘Dad, eat a piece of this steak dude.’ I just straight up called him out…and he popped a piece in and never looked back. Definitely didn’t stick to his guns on that one.”
See, a good steak is going to win every time.