"You'd be the cheese in a veggie delight."?

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...  I thought she was talking about the bread and butter type but then she produced this:

"But would you ever want one [a sandwich]? You'd be the cheese in a veggie delight."

There is NO context to the above. It came out of no where. In our messaging we'd been talking about meat eating vs vegetarianism. She is a fully dedicated vegetarian. After a few moments trying to work out what the hell that meant my mind went to the gutter. Is she the veggie delight? Is she implying something or is my mind running wild?

Answer

The word vegetarian has been in use since 1839, referring to what was previously described as "vegetable diet". It is commonly believed to be a compound of vegetable and the suffix -arian (as in agrarian). (John Davis shows that it was probably not derived from the Latin word vegetus.) The term was popularised with the foundation of the Vegetarian Society in Manchester, UK in 1847. The earliest occurrences of the term seem to be related to Alcott House, a school on the north side of Ham Common, London, opened in July 1838 by James Pierrepont Greaves. From 1841, it was known as A Concordium, or Industry Harmony College, from which time the institution began to publish its own pamphlet, "The Healthian", which provides some of the earliest occurrences of the term "vegetarian"

"You'd be the cheese in a veggie delight."?

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