But that doesn't mean veggie cars won't get more popular or become easier to operate.
The Gillises started eating a solid breakfast of steel cut oats and fruit or veggie omelets.
But it is the prime moment for cocktails featuring the root veggie of the season: beets.
Lehka Hlava offers good value, inventive veggie dishes in a colourful, quirky environment.
By the early 1940s, though, the easy availability and low cost of petroleum rendered veggie plastics unnecessary.
Over the past generation, McDonald's has offered its customers fishburgers, veggie burgers, chicken burgers and (shudder) salads.
Indeed, the economics of veggie oil are even better for a car than they are for a truck.
But when the economy collapsed in 2002, a recently formed Argentine Vegetarian Union gained members, and veggie restaurants sprouted.
It gets 48 miles per gallon and can switch at any time between using veggie oil or diesel for fuel.
Tempting low-fat choices include Yoshi's Asian Grill's avocado-cucumber sushi and edamame, Roadhouse 66 Bar's veggie burgers, and Oaxaca's vegetable burrito.
The car must run on diesel for five minutes after startup to heat the veggie oil to the proper temperature.
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Sweet delights such as cakes and muffins are also available -- because no one ever said being veggie meant counting calories, after all.
His team spent five months consulting with cafeteria workers, coaching veggie-averse schoolchildren and opening up a community kitchen serving wholesome meals.
Hirshberg said she started to love vegetables after growing her own, and she believes that there is a veggie eater in everyone.
The internet has also made life easier, with numerous vegetarian dating websites such as veggieromance.com and veggievisiondating.com offering "veggie dates and love".
Since most of today's conventional wisdom was once considered heterodox and unreliable, veggie libel laws threaten to stifle any serious debate about food safety.
Kuhn is part of what Lee Briante, a spokesman for Greasecar, the largest purveyor of veggie fuel conversion kits, says is a growing market segment.
Post-recall Veggie Booty, Ehrlich says, accounted for 8% of 2007 sales.
Clearly, Taco Bell would much prefer people pick up a twelve-pack of its tacos to bring to a sports-watching party than pick up a veggie tray.
Customers also have the option to overindulge (a trenta macchiato with a donut on the side) or under-indulge (a skinny latte with a veggie snack box).
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The evangelical "Veggie Tales" cartoons animated Bible stories featuring talking cucumbers and tomatoes probably shape more children in their view of scripture than any denominational catechism does these days.
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Then he raised the price by 50 cents a bottle, so that it was 25% more expensive than other premium veggie juice companies, like Knudsen and Lakewood.
Many of the chain's franchisees established their businesses in the early 2000s in college towns, where hungry students could order veggie pitas, gyros and smoothies until 3 a.m.
VegiVentures, a UK-based pioneer in the world of veggie travel, has been offering vegetarian vacations since 1989 thanks to founder Nigel Walker a former chef, yoga teacher and travel rep.
Of all these incidents the most egregious was the salmonella scare and recall last summer, which involved not just Veggie Booty but a second product, Super Veggie Tings Crunchy Corn Sticks.
Public School 244, in the Flushing section of Queens, has been serving tofu wraps and vegetarian chili since going all-veggie earlier this year, schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said during a lunchtime visit.
During the three months that Veggie Booty was off the shelves, he tweaked its recipe, adding "cane powder" (unrefined sugar) to reduce the Booty's bitterness and make it more appealing to a wider audience.
These three cocktails showcase the veggie's vast versatility.
But the main attraction here is the food: they are known for its artichoke enchiladas and Bueno Burger, a medley of grains, seeds and tofu that gets regular raves on message boards as the best veggie burger in Austin.
The guests are beginning to feel out the atmosphere, trying to figure out who will make the first move at the veggie tray, seeing if they know anybody, trying to see who takes the first glass of champagne.
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