Vegetarianised

I have been almost vegetarian for a long time due to living with vegetarian Nu, and since her birthday last November I've been really actually vegetarian. So far it's been good and I intend to continue. It's funny to think, but it seems that a huge proportion of our friends are vegetarian too, so I wonder what the actual statistics are. At least in Germany it must be relatively uncommon, as suggested by this article that appeared in The Age. Come on Germans! Give the pigs a break:

Germans are among the highest meat consumers in Europe, obtaining around 39 per cent of their total kilojoule intake from meat and meat products, compared with 25 per cent in Italy.

To be fair, our travels to Spain last summer showed that country to be much less vegetarian friendly than Germany. At least here people are well aware of what it means to be vegetarian, which didn't always seem to be the case in Spain. Being forced to eat tortilla every meal somewhat tainted Nu's experience of the country, which was sad since I rather hoped she'd like it.